Clinical Educator / Deputy Sister

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Clinical Educator and Deputy Sister to join Sobell House Hospice in Oxford. The post is a fixed term, 12-month contract covering maternity leave.
Sobell House is an 18 bed NHS hospice within Oxford University Hospitals Trust specially designed to provide Palliative and End of Life Care and support for patients and their families with advanced incurable disease. We provide specialist care aiming to focus on quality of life and respecting the uniqueness of each person.
The post-holder will be an experienced, knowledgeable practitioner who provides clinically based practice development and education to the non-medical workforce. They will role model best, evidence based professional practice and Trust values. Clinical education support for all 'learners at the bedside' is a substantial part of this role. As part of the senior nursing team you will assist the Ward Manager in providing excellent clinical and managerial leadership.
The role will comprise of 22.5 hours, which will incorporate Clinical Educator time and working clinically on the ward as a Deputy Sister.
For an informal chat or to visit the unit please contact Christina Lovell ([email protected]), The clinical educator will identify and support the learning needs of their clinical area. The clinical educator is key to ensuring the clinical area is a positive learning environment through acting as an expert resource, ensuring local training resources are appropriate and up-to-date, and working collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team and senior colleagues.
Specific education interventions will be provided and may be co-developed with the senior practice development and education team. They will also assist in coordinating the delivery and evaluation of training. The clinical educator is key to ensuring training is grounded in good practice and will be involved in the education element of clinical governance and quality assurance.
In addition to working as the Clinical Educator, the post-holder will act as the Deputy Sister and spend time working clinically on the ward., Clinical Practice
+ Work alongside learners delivering clinical care for the majority of the role. Use coaching/mentoring-style techniques during contact time with learners to identify learning needs, improve standards, and escalate concerns where appropriate
+ Have highly developed clinical skills relevant to their areas of responsibility such that they may act as an expert resource for learners
+ Demonstrate and promote a high standard of person-centred, holistic care.
+ Draw upon an appropriate range of multi-agency and inter-professional resources in their practice
+ Work independently and within a team structure according to the standards set by their professional body
+ Demonstrate leadership in influencing the department and multi-disciplinary team
Practice Development and Education
+ Maintain personal professional development through self-directed learning and engaging with their line manager to address identified learning needs
+ Maintain own professional portfolio and support others to do the same
+ Participate in and actively seek peer review to reflect upon and improve clinical and educational practice
+ Advocate for and contribute to a working environment that promotes continuous learning and development, evidence-based practice and succession planning
Leadership and Management
+ Act as a role model and resource for evidence-based practice
+ Work with the multi-disciplinary team leads to deliver practice development and education strategy
+ Proactively establish, develop, and maintain inter-professional relationships and attend relevant meetings.
+ Provide data to the senior practice development and education team to assist with the collation of the yearly training needs analysis
Audit and Evaluation:
+ Participate in identifying and addressing risk and poor quality through appropriate governance structures and forums where a practice development and education element exists
+ Assist with practice development and education audit
+ Provide assistance for the multi-disciplinary team to undertake clinical audit and offer practice development and education input where appropriate and supported by senior staff
+ Participate in ongoing service review and evaluation, including seeking and monitoring patient experience and outcomes, where these have a relevance to practice development and education

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.