Deputy Clinical Educator inMilton Keynes inMilton Keynes PUBLISHED THU 16 JAN 2025

Job Overview

CNWL recognises that good education and training resources which support staff and service developments are crucial in order to deliver the best care possible to service users. We have a team of Clinical Educators who work across the Trust supporting education in practice at all levels from the Care Certificate through to Advanced Clinical Practice programmes.

We are looking for a motivated Registered Mental health nurse who can join our team as band 6 Deputy Clinical Educators in Milton Keynes. You will be motivated and keen to work with individual learners and also ensure that teams and services are able to access the education they need to deliver evidence based practice which meets or exceeds national standards. You will offer clinical education expertise to help Team Leads and Ward Managers to make the best use of education resources to attract, recruit and retain staff and develop learners to provide the best possible care to the people who use are services

You will be part of that team promoting a learning culture across the Trust and you will be the named person responsible for all aspects of non-medical clinical education within a geographic or service area.

Main duties of the job

• To support students and learners on placement in the Trust.
• To work alongside the clinical educators support practice supervisors, practice assessors with students on placement with their teams.
• To develop close working relationships and work with team leads, managers and work alongside Clinical Educators and the student placement hub in arranging and maximising clinical placements.
• To evaluate the students experience whilst on placement within the Trust and contribute to the quality assurance processes.
• To work with the Trust Preceptorship Lead and Clinical Educators in the delivery of the preceptorship framework.
• The post holder will maintain excellent working relationships with partner Universities and placement staff.
• To contribute to the Trust meeting its obligation to ensure that new Band 2-4 clinical staff complete the care certificate by supporting staff in practice to understand their role in signing off competencies.
• To support clinical apprentices in practice.
• To work alongside the Clinical educators to support individuals and teams to plan their professional development in order to benefit service users and / or support service developments.
• To understand and signpost staff on career development pathways designed to attract or retain staff
• Undertake other duties at a comparable level of responsibility as may be allocated to the post.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Central and North West London NHS Trust expects Band 6 Deputy Clinical Educators to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends family and carers and also other staff members.

As a Band 6 Deputy Clinical Educator you should show COMPASSION and contribute to a caring and kind clinical and learning environment. You should recognise that what you do and say as a Clinical Leader

can help make the lives of others better.

You should RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.

You should EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information and resources which support others to make their own decisions and meet their own educational needs.

You should work in PARTNERSHIP with others and behave in a way that shows that you recognise our role is to support others who are delivering frontline services.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Clinical

The post holder will work with defined services to support clinical education across the trust. You will work with the Heads of Clinical Education and the Clinical Educators to identify areas of training needs and professional development. The Deputy Clinical Educator will signpost people to existing resources or you may work with colleagues to develop appropriate education solutions. The deputy clinical educator role sits within the clinical education team. The role is to support students and learners on placement in the Trust. The post-holder will also support the processes which ensures students are ready to work as a newly qualified nurse upon qualification. This post will support the Trust Preceptorship Lead in the delivery and uptake of preceptorship within the trust and the simulation lead with the delivery of in situ simulation. The post holder will work closely with University contacts to increase the visibility of CNWL and increase recruitment of pre-registration students. The responsibilities within this role is:

• To support students and learners on placement in the Trust.
• To assist with the induction of students into CNWL.
• To ensure all students on placement within relevant services, have an identified practice supervisor and assessor.
• To work alongside the clinical educators support practice supervisors, practice assessors with students on placement with their teams.
• To develop close working relationships and work with team leads, managers and work alongside Clinical Educators and the student placement hub in arranging and maximising clinical placements.
• To evaluate the students experience whilst on placement within the Trust and contribute to the quality assurance processes.
• To work with the Trust Preceptorship Lead and Clinical Educators in the delivery of the preceptorship framework.
• To ensure all preceptees within the relevant services have an identified Preceptor in practice.
• To support and act as a resource for Preceptees and Preceptors and ensure they receive the updates they need to be effective in their role.
• To provide support to students and facilitate recruitment of students to CNWL services.
  
  

The post holder will maintain excellent working relationships with partner Universities and placement staff.

• To contribute to the Trust mee