Clinical Practice Educator

At Acorns Childrens Hospice we offer specialist palliative care and support for children and their families across the West Midlands., As a Clinical Practice Educator, you will :

• Support the development and delivery of an education plan that support Acorns strategy and workforce development
• Ensure that compliance with all mandatory training is achieved
• Act as the Resuscitation Officer for Acorns
• Supported Registered Manager in the onboarding of new starters
• Develop, deliver and evaluate digital and face-to-face learning packages, 1.Work with the Lead Practice Educator and DeputyDirector of Care- Quality Assurance to support the development and delivery ofan education plan that supports Acorns strategy and workforce developmentin order to meet the needs of children, familiesand individual team members.
2.Demonstrate commitment through support to RegisteredManagers to ensure that compliance with all mandatory trainingis achieved. 3.Act as the Resuscitation officerfor Acorns developing and maintaining own skillsas required for this role. 4.Support RegisteredManagers in the onboarding of new starters(permanent and bank). 5.Work with clinical teams across Acorns andexternally to develop and deliver educationalopportunities to ensurecompetence and confidence in complex care. 6.Work with clinicalteams to ensureclinical competency and skills development to support delivery of evidence-based care. This includes the ongoingdevelopment and review of the Acornsclinical competency process. 7.As part of the Care Education Team,demonstrate our caringvalue by ensuring a responsive and flexible service thatreacts to the changing needs of individual children and families and reflectsthe learning needs of staff and volunteers 8. As part of the Care Education Team develop / identify, deliver, and evaluate digital and face to facelearning packages to meetidentified learning needs including bespoke clinical skills including trainthe trainer sessions. 9.Working with the Care educationteam, use the Acorns digitallearning platform to monitorand analyse training and report on compliance. 10. Act as a centralpoint of contact to universities to enable student placements across Care Services and support the teams to mentor studentsupdating and cascadingrelevant information and resources as required. 11. Support the setting up of honorarycontract arrangements and supportindividuals on placement at Acorns or externally 12. Be courageous and act as a positive role model demonstrating professionalism. accountability and leadership to others andfostering a culture that promotes innovative learning and encourages reflectionwhile challenging poor practice. 13. Work collaboratively and attend / lead appropriate internal and externalmeetings and workgroups as agreed. 14. Ensure appropriate links with researchand governance to support safe andeffective service. 15. Maintain own clinical skillsthrough identified learningopportunities in liaisonwith the line manager. 16. As a trusted colleague, support the provision and facilitation of clinicalsupervision and reflective learning across all sites. 17. Maintain professional registration through revalidation. 18. Be curiousand use researchand professional networking to advise on changes in clinical practice andcontribute to policy development. 19. Maintain knowledgeand awareness of safeguarding and ensure appropriate steps are facilitated througheffective multi-professional agencies.


• Educated to degree level or equivalent (or working towards)
• Registered healthcare professional
• Experience of creating, delivering and evaluating clinical training
• Excellent communication, presentation and written skills, Essential
• Educated to degree level or equivalent or working towards
• Registered Healthcare Professional
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
• EPALS instructor
• Recognised qualification in Education / teaching
Experience Essential
• Experience of creating delivering monitoring training and evaluating clinical training activities using blended learning
• Experience of supporting the change process
• Knowledge of Safeguarding children
• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary team in a healthcare setting
Desirable
• Experience of liaising with Colleges / Universities
• Advanced respiratory skills
• Experience of Paediatric Palliative Care
• Experience of delivering care to for children with complex needs and disabilities
• Experience of working with children with complex care needs
  
  Up to £41,500 per annum
• per week
• Employee discounts from leading retailers
• Employee gym discount scheme
• Bike-to-Work scheme
• Generous contribution to group personal pension plan or continuation of current NHS pension scheme
• NHS pension scheme life assurance or Acorns group life assurance scheme
Interviews are scheduled to be held on 18 December You need to be eligible to work in the UK to be considered for this role. We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and therefore any successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check for children and will be asked to provide two satisfactory references. As a UNICEF Gold Rights Respecting organisation, we are committed to ensuring that the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child is embedded into both culture and practice within the organisation. As an employee you will be a Duty Bearer for Childrens Rights and support all children to be Rights Holders.