Palliative Care Clinical Educator

This post is for internal candidates to South Tees Trust. If you are not currently working within the trust your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.

An exciting 10 month secondment opportunity to join a team of Nursing and AHP educators within the Trust as a Palliative Care Clinical Educator. Working directly with the Lead Nurse for Cancer and Palliative Care and the Nursing Midwifery and Education Lead.

The successful candidate will utilise their current experience to develop and lead clinical, virtual and classroom education in relation to the care of the patient with palliative care needs. .

The post holder will support with the development of a portfolio of education related to palliative care.

The post holder will ensure the delivery of palliative care education complements existing education programmes to provide an evidence based education portfolio for the Trust.

They will guide health care staff development and acquisition of knowledge and skills to support the palliative care patient across all areas of care.

The post holder will act as a clinical and professional role model to maintain and develop exceptional standards of clinical care. Working alongside other specialities and professional groups there will be an expectation to promote and foster a culture of education and clinical development within the workforce.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will demonstrate the knowledge and skills of a competent Palliative Care practitioner and will:

Lead on the delivery of inter-professional education to ensure staff proficiency incare of the patient with palliative care needs. .

Organise, develop and lead the delivery of clinical training programmes to meet the learning needs of the clinical workforce

Maintain and develop clinical expertise to act as an expert resource to colleagues by guiding practice development and education delivery

Work clinically with staff in the wards and departments to improve their assessment and management of Palliative Care Patients

Work collaboratively with the Lead Nurse for Cancer and Palliative Careand Clinical Educators to deliver inter-professional point of care teaching programmes to enhance patient care to all disciplines of healthcare staff.

The post holder will promote a proactive approach to education, learning and maintaining the highest standards of clinical practice at South Tees NHS Hospitals trust.

This post may close at sufficient applicants.

About us

Leadership and Improvement Training

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to

Explore leadership within the NHS

Promote Trust Values and Behaviours

Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills

Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.