Practice Educator - Health Visiting

The Practice Educator is responsible for the recruitment, teaching and assessment of student SCPHN Health Visitors alongside supporting and developing the Health Visiting Workforce. The Practice Educator will also hold a caseload of families delivering the healthy child programme alongside their teaching role.
The Practice Educator will support with policy development and undertaking clinical audit, feeding back audit findings to the workforce.
The Practice Educator will develop programmes of training for student health visitors and the health visitor workforce and will support in the delivery of these programmes. This includes training for student health visitors, the preceptorship programme, healthy child practitioners, community nursery nurses and health visitors.
The Practice Educator will identify learning needs within the workforce and will support in addressing these learning needs.

Are you a registered health visitor with a passion for training and education? If so this role may be for you. We are looking for a motivated and passionate health visitor to undertake the role of Practice Educator (Previously Practice Teacher).
Applications are welcomed from experienced, committed, energetic health visitors who can demonstrate a proven track record in clinical practice, innovation, leadership, commitment and an interest in providing training and developing the health visiting workforce to meet the needs of vulnerable families.
You must have a Community Practice Teacher/ Educator qualification (or equivalent) and be an experienced, registered SCPHN Health Visitor.
This is an exciting opportunity to help develop health visiting practice and to join a team who are passionate about delivering the best to the local community.

Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens this year and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH . If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continue your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three strategic objectives:
1. Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
2. Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
3. Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives

NHS AfC: Band 7
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As "People" is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department., Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails
As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.