Practice Education Facilitator

This is an exciting time to join the Practice Education Facilitator Team at Stockport NHS FT. As part of the role; you will support learners in practice from a wide variety of healthcare professions. You will develop and maintain links with Education Providers to support practice assessors and practice supervisors. A key aspect of the role will be to work with placement areas to increase placement capacity through the introduction of GM Synergy and Targeted Placement Expansion Projects, embedding the principles of assessment and supervision. You will support the coaching approach across all placement areas within the organisation will be an integral part of your role.

The successful candidate will have highly effective interpersonal skills including; the ability to work with a diverse team of professionals, able to work flexibly and use own initiative. You must have excellent organisational skills and be able to manage competing priorities.

Experience of teaching, supervising and assessing healthcare students is essential. Candidates will have a professional qualification (First Level Registration with NMC/HCPC)and valid registration appropriate to specialty, alongside a degree. An appropriate Educator/teaching/mentorship qualification at Masters Level (or working towards) is essential.

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays


• NHS pension scheme membership


• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further


• NHS Staff discounts


• Cycle to work scheme


• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt


• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice