AHP Practice Education Facilitator

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people's own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking 'what matters to you'.
We're passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.
Our application process aims to understand each candidates knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.
It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over reliance on AI-generated as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us ., An exciting new opportunity for the role of AHP Practice Education Facilitator within Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust!
The student placement expansion project established a range of clinical placements across Gloucestershire Health and Care the value of, and justification for, a AHP Practice Education Facilitator became clear.
This range of clinical placements have to be utilised and maintained. This role will suit a Registered Allied Health Professional who is passionate to invest in our future workforce. The PEF will support practice educators in practice, design and share educational resources, and (if appropriate) clinical skills and their expert knowledge. Engaging with Practice Educators to identify how students can be encouraged to embrace every opportunity to apply theory or evidence base to practice and interact with multi-disciplinary team members and service users / patients from a positive and informed position., o Enable students and team-based practice educators to identify learning styles and facilitate and encourage learning
o Embed peer to peer collaborative learning incorporating a coaching style
o Identify develop and upload student teaching/learning resources and enabling learners and practice educators to maximise their potential to enhance learning in a clinical setting
o To have oversight of placement allocations, recognising 'pinch points' and where time invested with student and practice educators would be of most benefit and ease pressure on clinical teams
o Supporting clinical teams to fully implement CLIP coaching models
o Providing professional support and facilitation for unit managers / team leaders, practice supervisors and assessors to provide quality work-based placements to enable staff to develop the right skills, values and behaviours to deliver high quality, safe patient care
o To work collaboratively with Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to realise the required Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) education standards to prepare registrants to fulfil professional standard proficiencies., For more information please see the attached 'Additional Information for Applicants' document.
Salary Update
With effect from 1 April 2024, there is a 5.5 per cent consolidated uplift for all Agenda for Change (AfC) staff on NHS terms and conditions. This may change the salary that is advertised on this advert.
The national NHS Employers team are working through the processes required to implement the recently announced new Agenda for Change pay award for 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025. The related national Pay Advisory Notice (which confirms the details including dates) is yet to be issued to employers.
If there is any further information, we will ensure you are updated accordingly.

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.
The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:
+ 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
+ 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
+ 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
+ 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative
Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Gloucestershire Healthcare providers rely on Universities to prepare future healthcare professionals. In response to existing and projected workforce shortages Universities have increased the numbers of students on healthcare programmes.
To qualify in their respective professions all healthcare students are required to gain experience in a range of practice settings.
The 'Education Everyone's Business' One Gloucestershire Student Placement Expansion Project brought together healthcare provider organisations to discuss and realise the clinical placement expansion required to support the additional students to gain the practice experience and skills they need to become confident and competent registered healthcare professionals.
Having established the range of clinical placements it is vital these are utilised and maintained, and we constantly review and realise the potential of further opportunities to expose our future healthcare professionals to (particularly as they evolve and transform) clinical settings and care.
Ensuring students have a quality clinical placement and learning experience across clinical practice environments is critical; we rely on prepared, committed practice educators, supervisors and assessors directly providing support in learning and assessment in practice activities to develop and deliver quality assured placements for students.
Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our people's skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

When joining us, as well as becoming part of a team that makes a difference, we also offer:
+ Free car parking at many of our sites
+ 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
+ A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification.
+ A multi-professional preceptorship programme for all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners.
+ Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when if you work unsocial hours
+ Flexible, family friendly and agile working opportunities
+ Recognition and long service awards
+ Fast Track physiotherapy
+ Our Wellbeing line
+ Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes; including Cycle to Work, Car scheme and discounts on travel, leisure and retailers.