Specialist Practitioner Practice Education Facilitator

We are looking for a dedicated Education Facilitator join the 0-19 Childrens universal service and help us work together to make Waltham Forest a better place for all.

We are dedicated to providing a vital service for parents and babies, addressing health inequalities, and working closely with our family hub partners to deliver a service that is innovative progressive and responsive to the needs of the community in which we work.

The successful candidate on appointment will be involved in and leading on the engagement to recruit and support SCPHN Students for 0-5/Health Visiting and the requirement to be suitably qualified. You will be required to deliver the NMC Standards for Student Supervision and Assessment role as a PA for these students working with both Greenwich and City AEIs

You will be facilitating the education infrastructure for the SCPHN students in Waltham Forest and identification of benefits for SCPHN staff to deliver their SSSA role through training, supervision and development in their post registration education role, supporting high quality 0-19 service provision and securing growth of the SCPHN Workforce in Waltham Forest. You will be working with other PEF colleagues in WF and within THGPCG service provision in neighbouring Borough of Tower Hamlets

Main duties of the job

Foster an environment which values education as part of the philosophy of the practice area.

Support the recruitment and induction of Health Visiting staff

Support the induction content and process for all newly appointed Health Visiting staff

Improve the patient experience and care standards across the organisation by leading and developing competency assessment documents

Actively participate in national and corporate projects.

Demonstrate a commitment towards the development of professional and clinical practice, self and others.

Lead and ensure pastoral support for Health Visiting staff

Identify and coordinate the nursing staff to undertake CPD activity appropriate to role in collaboration senior nurse leaders and the Head of Nursing for Practice Development & Education

Support with the development of organisations strategy/career pathway for Health Visiting staff in collaboration with stakeholders and Head of Service and workforce lead

Lead and develop study days for Health Visiting staff in line with organisational priorities

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.

Read up more about Tower Hamlets GP Care Group, click here: https://www.gpcaregroup.org/

The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.