Practice Educator - Respiratory

We are looking to recruit a practice educator to enhance patient care by supporting and developing our nursing teams. Key priorities will be to develop and deliver teaching packages and ensure compliance with mandatory training. You will also support the wards in embedding practice and developments required as part of the Nursing Assessment and Performance Framework process.
The ideal candidate will have experience at Band 6 level within respiratory, have excellent teaching skills and be an effective role model to all grades of staff. You will work closely with the ward managers to identify how training requirements will be met to ensure the workforce is equipped to deliver safe care and maintain accurate training records to evidence this.
Effective management, communication and leadership skills are essential for this role and though the role will be primarily clinically based across the 4 respiratory wards, you may be expected to undertake some classroom based teaching and support practice educators within other directorates that form MEC, Work closely with ward managers, specialist services to support induction and training of staff
Development and delivery of training packages to all grades of staff
Support and development and assessment of competency (of staff) across a range of clinical skills
Provision of accurate training records
Ensuring staff are up to date with all mandatory and essential to role training
Dear Potential Applicant,
It is important you are made aware of the following as regards your application to East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
+ Please note that the salary advertised is for full time hours. If this post is less than 37.5 hours per week, the salary will be pro-rata. For posts on Agenda for Change pay-scales, new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
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This cost is not applicable for a Volunteer post

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated, highly skilled and knowledgeable respiratory nurse to join the respiratory directorate, and support the Medicine and Emergency Care division (MEC) as a clinical practice educator. Our respiratory nursing team work in a fast-paced and acute clinical service that delivers care to patients with a wide range of respiratory illnesses, and those requiring non-invasive ventilation (NIV)., Clinical Knowledge base for acute patients particularly in Respiratory Medicine
Well developed communication skills -able to engage, inspire and motivate both staff & patients in the clinical area.
Good time management skills are essential
Able to prioritise workload
Confident role model
Ensure improvements in patient outcomes & safety by development and delivery of clinical training for staff

At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work., Working for our organisation
Our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 700,000 patients a year from the most serious of emergencies to planned operations and procedures. We employ over 8,000 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work and achievements., The Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to improving the working lives of our staff and operates a 'Zero Tolerance' policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment. In addition, our aim is to help protect children and vulnerable adults by providing a first-class service to the recruitment of people into positions of trust.
We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve.
We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability or social background.
We especially welcome applications from members of our black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, as we have identified that ELHT has an under-representation of BAME employees. Appointments will be made on merit.