Practice Educator

St Elizabeth Hospice are seeking a Practice Educator to join our Education Team. We provide education and training for those who work in any of the local hospices and those external to the hospice as part of the three adult hospices education collaboration across East, West Suffolk and North East Essex (SNEE) integrated Care System (ICS).

Established in 1989, the hospice has built a reputation for delivering high-level care to patients and the community it serves. Through medicine and therapy, they ease pain; give life purpose and make life liveable. Last year the charity supported over 4,000 patients and their families.

The hospices work is centred on the individual's needs and they provide specialist support wherever it is needed; whether that is in the home, another setting in the community, in hospital or in the hospice itself. Support is provided to patients and their families via the Inpatient Unit, the Community Care Unit including outpatients clinics, home visits from the community nursing, medical or therapy team, the OneCall 24/7 telephone helpline and bereavement support., You will plan and develop sessions, review training and education across SNEE. The role will also support and expand the grow your own pathways for staff across clinical teams.

The ideal candidate for this role will have a professional qualification in nursing, along with knowledge of end of life and palliative care, underpinned by theory and evidence.

As well as excellent training, teaching, facilitation and presentation skills, you will be self-motivated, pro-active, and have the ability to work effectively with people with diverse skills, abilities and experience.

St Elizabeth Hospice is an independent charity and hospice, rated outstanding by CQC, which improves life for people in the East Suffolk, Great Yarmouth and Waveney areas living with a progressive or life-limiting illness.

St Elizabeth Hospice is committed to safeguarding and protecting the adults and young people that we work with and has a zero-tolerance approach to abuse, neglect and discrimination of any person. As such, all posts are subject to a rigorous safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We have a range of robust safeguarding policies in place which promote safeguarding across the hospice and staff are expected to undertake regular, mandatory safeguarding training to equip them with the knowledge and skills to identify and respond to potential risks.