Placement Education Lead

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the provision of high quality multi-professional placements & education. Working primarily for learners within our family care division they will also be required to work across the organisation where interprofessional learning opportunities can be provided. This is a split role with the post holder working with both our midwifery, medical & nursing & AHP students & learners The post holder will be an NMC registered midwife., The post holder will be required to:

• Identify and develop new placement opportunities for medical & non-medical students & learners within the Trust by networking with clinical areas to explore all possible learning opportunities within the division.
• Support the DUE & PEF teams in the allocation of placements and clinical activity.
• Participate in the design, implementation, and evaluation of current or new programmes of education and training.
• Engage with the wider clinical workforce, working collaboratively across disciplines and professions through work-based learning,
clinical support, education and training and clinical supervision.
• Assess the quality of placement learning environments; ensuring all service areas/ placement providers have up to ILOs and have a
clear understand of the requirements of learners whilst on placement.
• Support the midwifery education team to deliver training to both multi-professional learners but also to registered staff with the division.
• Car owner & driver, To offer immediate hands-on practical support & guidance to learners & mentors.
• To work alongside learners to ensure that they are given every opportunity to develop their competence.
• Visit students within their placement supporting them with their education and assessments as well as ensuring no learning opportunity
is missed.
• To promote effective communication between link lecturers, module leaders & the placement areas
• Supporting interprofessional learning activity across the trust and local service providers
• Support the development & delivery of targeted study days to enhance the training of pre-registration students, other learners & registered staff within the organization
• Develop bespoke teaching sessions that meet student learning needs & enhance placement learning experience
Placement Quality
• Support placement education leads, Practice Educators, PEF & DUE teams to develop placement circuits that meet student learning
needs, mirror the patient journey or explore locality-based healthcare communities.
• Promote the use of a hub and spoke model of placements within the division to increase the breadth of placement experience, improve
multi-professional learning, encourage the development of new spokes and simply by managing our spokes better we will also increase capacity.
• Support the production of a central placement database that will improve communication to and from placement managers and
educators.
• Support interprofessional learning activity across the trust and local service providers
• Facilitate the development of clinical supervisors across relevant service areas; providing supervision and support structures, building
education in clinical practice capability, consistency and efficiency.
• To support mentors & educators in situations where learners are not able to meet their competencies.
• Share best practice relating to Quality Assurance and Interprofessional Learning across placement providers.
Allocations
• Support the DUE, PEF & Placement Hub teams to map annual allocation timetables for medical students and for each HEI to enable
long term planning.
• Work with partner HEI's to reduce placement overlap and duplication.
• Maximize placement use across the Trust and reduce last minute placement cancellations or emergency placement requests.
Capacity
• Working with placement managers to expand placement capacity & increase the number of educators available
• Explore how new placement models such as CLiP, E-roster or Hub & Spoke models of student placements could be utilised to expand
placement capacity Interviewer information pack
• Support the development of E-roster to track and manage learner placements
• Support the introduction of capacity as a daily number of learners rather than a weekly number of students.
• Support the development of simulated or remote learning opportunities
Communication
• Ensure communication channels are used appropriately to facilitate the flow of information between internal and external partners.
• Share best practice relating to Quality Assurance and Interprofessional Learning across placement providers.
• Produce regular progress reports to inform Education Quality monitoring.
• Ensure that confidentiality is maintained at all times in conjunction with organisational IG policies.
• Have an understanding of emotional intelligence and human factors and its impact within the health care setting: patients, clinicians,
service providers and the wider team.

Essential criteria
• NMC registered Midwife
• Completion of NMC recognized practice assessor training
Desirable criteria
• Degree level qualification
• Completion of NMC recognized practice supervisor training
• Completion of PROMPT train the trainer program, Experience of teaching, supervising, and assessing healthcare students in the practice setting
• Ability to work without supervision and use own initiative
• Ability to teach and facilitate in a variety of settings with different groups of staff
• Knowledge of different methods/ styles for teaching and learning
• Experience of having worked across professional and organizational boundaries
Desirable criteria
• Experience of teaching & supervising medical students in the practice setting
• Staff management/staff supervision
• Experience of developing and implementing new systems and procedures
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with people from a wide range of personal and professional backgrounds
• Understanding of quality improvement methodology and research delivery, Car owner & driver, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work., Established in 2003 East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) is a large integrated health care organisation providing high quality acute
secondary healthcare for the people of East Lancashire. Our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 700,000 patients a year from the most serious of emergencies to planned operations and procedures. We employ over 8,000 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work and achievements., The Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to improving the working lives of our staff and operates a 'Zero Tolerance' policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment. In addition, our aim is to help protect children and vulnerable adults by providing a first-class service to the recruitment of people into positions of trust. We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability or social background. We especially welcome applications from members of our black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, as we have identified that ELHT has an under-representation of BAME employees. Appointments will be made on merit.

It is important you are made aware of the following as regards your application to East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
• Please note that the salary advertised is for full time hours. If this post is less than 37.5 hours per week, the salary will be pro-rata. For posts on Agenda for Change pay-scales, new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
• This vacancy may close before the closing date if the recruiting manager deems sufficient applications have been received. Therefore it is advised to complete your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
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Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS) If the role you are applying for is identified as either controlled or regulated activity as defined in in the Safeguarding vulnerable Groups Act (2006) any offer of employment is provisional upon a satisfactory DBS check being obtained. The healthcare sector is exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. In line with other NHS organisations in the North West Region, the Trust is now passing the charge for undertaking a DBS check on to candidates in the event they are successfully appointed into the post for which they have applied. Candidates can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months as a deduction from the monthly salary. However, if you are applying for a post as a BANK worker, the payment must be made in full at the time of employment checks. By applying for this vacancy you are agreeing to this undertaking in the event you are successfully appointed. The cost of an Enhanced Disclosure will be £55.38 and for a Standard Disclosure will be £27.38.