Job overview

Clinical Practice Educator

Band 6
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Permanent contract

Now is a great time to join our team as a Clinical Practice Educator in Urgent and Emergency Care at Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. This is a newly created post to support the Practice Based Educator. 

We are looking for an experienced registered health care professional including allied health and registered nurses who are committed to working to deliver an excellent, caring service to our patients.

You will work with the current PBE Urgent and Emergency Care team to support, develop and deliver a coordinated and systematic approach to practice development and establish evidence into practice.

Main duties of the job

Facilitating the professional and personal development of staff within Urgent and Emergency Care to improve the quality of patient care highlight learning needs in conjunction with Team Leaders, Unit Managers and Matrons.

As a specialist in education and practice development, you will support other members of the team including junior and senior staff and be professional accountability to the Matrons and the Head of Nursing. Providing assurance high standards of patient focused, evidenced-based care is paramount.

You will act as a resource for clinical expertise and maintain clinical skills by undertaking regular 1:1 clinical practice supporting members of the team.

In addition you will contribute towards the management of the unit/department. Provide Professional, leadership and support. Actively promote practice and educational development at departmental level.

Both our patients and our staff are important to us - Everyone Matters, so you will be valuable member of the team, supporting the department and junior staff to develop the workforce in order to deliver exceptional quality care.

Applicants are expected to have a background in emergency and urgent care and have additional skills in immediate management of acutely unwell patients, qualifications in resuscitation and a teaching qualification would be advantageous.

This role will cover all Urgent and Emergency Care services in the Trust.

Working for our organisation

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners. 

We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate: 

• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Excellence

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population. 

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people. 

Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.