Clinical Practice Facilitator

at  HCA Healthcare UK

Job Title: Clinical Practice Facilitator – Corporate Nursing Programmes
Location: London
Full time 37.5 hours per week

PERMANENT

Salary: Up to £54,000
We’re looking for a Clinical Practice Facilitator to join our Corporate Nursing Programmes team Part of our HCA Academy, based in London.
The HCA UK Academy brings all our learning pathways together, so we can provide exceptional development opportunities for our exceptional people. We believe learning is a continuous journey, and we are committed to supporting colleagues to learn and grow so they can have a really meaningful career here at HCA UK.
As a Clinical Practice Facilitator, your role will be to influence the quality of the clinical learning environment by providing support, educational input and development activities for mentors and students within HCA Healthcare UK Nursing, Allied Health pre-registration and post-registration clinical education programmes.
This role aims to enhance the quality of the practice learning experience and positively contribute to the future nursing workforce. By enhancing the quality of the learning environment, the education and training needs of the nursing workforce and of the full range of professional groups may also be addressed.
Above all else, we’re committed to the care and improvement of human life. It’s this guiding vision that influences everything we do at HCA UK. From the CEO to the colleagues on the floor we all have a part to play in delivering exceptional care to our patients. Other’s may think this is just a role in The HCA UK Academy, but to us, you’ll be part of a wider team with a unique sense of purpose, one that helps improve lives on a daily basis.

• Identify existing and potential learning opportunities for students within HCA Healthcare UK facilities and ensure that these link with the learning needs of different student groups.
• Contribute to the identification, selection and evaluation of practice placements available within a range of provider organisations and which meet the Educational Practice Placement Standards.
• Develop communication networks and close working relationships with managers, mentors, practice placement areas and Higher Education Institutes working with HCA Healthcare UK
• Contribute to effective partnership working between HCA Healthcare UK and Higher Education Institutes by building and maintaining links between the practice placement areas and the Schools of Nursing and Midwifery
• Explore and develop opportunities for inter-professional learning
• Contribute, as appropriate, to curriculum developments ensuring that they support them principles of work-based learning and respond to clinical need
• Work in collaboration with senior staff and mentors to develop their role in the practice placement setting
• Participate in the development and preparation of new mentors/preceptors
• Teach on the HCA Healthcare UK accredited Preceptor course
• Manage and support the HCA Preceptorship, OSCE Programme & Student Nursing Programme and other educational nursing opportunities
• Work with facility educators, staff and preceptors/mentors to ensure students receive induction and orientation to the practice placement area
• Participate in facilitating feedback to the practice placement area and HEI following student evaluation of their practice placement experience
• Contribute to the ongoing evaluation and development of the post
• Develop the adult surgical clinical training provision for HCA UK facilities and clinical skills competencies.
• Be a competent IT user -all MS office packages.
• Able to design and create a full range of training materials using a multi modal training approach
• To develop and maintain electronic information systems as required e.g. learning Management System, filing and Intranet.
• Contribute to the annual learning reports on the role for relevant stakeholders