Are you a Clinical Educator with a background in Nursing? Do you want to join an award-winning Education and Learning team?

St Margaret's Hospice Care has a fantastic opportunity for a Clinical Educator.

• Salary: £39,340 per annum (pro rata for part time)
• Location: Taunton (Opportunity for Hybrid working, depending on delivery needs)
• Contract:Permanent
• Working Pattern:We can support part time working of 22.5 hours per week up to full time hours of 37

Why Join Our Team?

Award Winning: We have been nominated for awards for our work with students as well as our innovative use of virtual reality in learning.

Professional Development: Opportunities to develop within Clinical Teaching and Clinical Leadership. We will also support you to maintain your ability to practice.

Scope for Creativity: Develop your own curriculum and deliver a range of course, including targeted learning for individuals and working within the community delivering training to nursing homes, GPs, and care homes.

No previous palliative care experience is required. We welcome applications from nurses with a diverse range of training backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team.

If you want to visit the Hospice, meet the team, or arrange a chat before applying, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Working as part of a team, you will lead on all areas of clinical learning, including clinical skills education and developing our online learning community.

You will also help us to reach audiences we can't currently reach by delivering training in the community. Working with a wide variety of people, you will connect with and make a difference to healthcare professionals and organisations across Somerset.

You will play a vital role in:

• Creating a supportive learning environment -Enable learners to become skilled practitioners and advocate for the best end of life care in Somerset.
• Building a skilled workforce- Support clinical staff of all grades and disciplines to achieve their professional objectives, bridging the gap between theory to practice.
• Developing the clinical workforce of the future -Take thelead on upskilling staff and ensuring that excellent care is maintained.

Your day-to-day work will include:

• Working with the Inpatient and Community teams to deliver a programme of clinical skills training
• Planning and delivering training courses
• Supporting the development of our outreach education session across the county
• Supporting students on placements across the hospice
• Evaluating learners progress and performance
• Contributing content to our new learning management system, supporting with its development and maintenance, and the opportunity to develop more online learning
• Contributing to innovation in learning e.g., development of virtual reality

About us

Be part of a welcoming, community minded charity. Our mission is to provide excellent specialist palliative care for patients and support to their families. If you speak to any of our staff or volunteers, they will tell you how the patient is at the heart of everything they do. So, if youre looking for a role where you can really make a difference, we could be a perfect match.

Holiday

• 33 days holiday including bank holidays rising to 35 days after 1 year, and increasing with length of service (pro-rata if part-time)
• Recognise continuous service for clinical staff paid at band 5+ who join directly from the NHS or another hospice*
• Ability to buy and sell annual leave
• NHS employees eligible to continue with their NHS pension scheme*
• Non-NHS employees will receive 5.5% employer and 5% employee contribution.

Award-winning Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family offering:

• Vitality & wellbeing health portal for non-emergency care
• Unlimited access to 24/7 online GP Consultations as well as Expert Case Management
• Confidential and free 24-hour Employee Assistance
• Counselling and support
• Legal, financial, and medical information and advice

And more

• Life assurance cover
• Health Cash Plans
• Competitive rates of mileage
• Blue Light Discount Card
• Enhanced parental leave*
• Excellent learning and development opportunities
• Free on-site parking in Yeovil and Taunton
• Volunteering and fundraising opportunities

*Eligibility Criteria Applies

Job responsibilities

Working closely with the ClinicalEducation Lead, you will:

• Plan and produce appropriate training coursesand resources for both St Margaret's Staff and external audiences.
• Lead the planning and delivering ECHO, the onlinecommunity of practice for external audiences. This will include developing the programme,advertising, and monitoring.
• Work with the Inpatient and Community teams, plan and delivera programme of clinical skills upskilling for all level staff, including support on competencies
• Evaluate learners progress andperformance, varying the approach and resources as required.
• Actively contribute to smile, thelearning management system - including content, compliance, development, andmaintenance
• Work closely with key clinicalstakeholders, such as Clinical Governance and the Inpatient and Community teams.
• Have aflexible approach to the working week, being prepared to travel to Yeovil andother training venues. Taunton is the work base.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications

• Experienced clinical educator
• Experience of educating in a health care setting
• Further qualification in clinical education
• Coaching qualification
• Experience of End-of-Life care
• Being a good role model with high standards of clinical expertise.
• Ability to create a positive learning environment to individuals within a diverse group
• Open to learning with a growth mindset
• Confidence to teach a variety of groups
• Empathy and engagement with staff volunteers and patients

Working with others

• Thorough and up to date knowledge of best practice in clinical education
• Experience in teaching and supervising clinical learners
• Have knowledge of practice placement requirements, and knowledge of current local and national guidance and priorities related to this role.
• Experience of student Nurse or allied health professional placements and key relationships with Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)

Outcome & Results

• Good communication and documentation skills are essential to ensure continuity of training within the team
• Understanding the theory and application of clinical governance
• Digital skills including the ability to and experience to deliver blended learning experiences/maintain the smile Learning Management System experience

Leading in your area

• Strong organisational skills - prioritising complex situations
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Able to accept responsibility for area of work, working under own initiative within the boundaries of role
• Ability to act as facilitator, mentor and supervisor
• Current knowledge of education and health care field

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.