Job description
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for staff looking to progress their career and become a Clinical Team Educator in the diverse North-North area of SCAS at our Blue Light Hub in Milton Keynes and Stoke Mandeville. Milton Keynes Resource Centre now forms part of the Blue Light Hub, working alongside Police and Fire colleagues.
The Clinical Team Educator role is a pivotal position in the management of the area’s existing operational staff of all grades and visiting students, being responsible for their clinical supervision and professional development while liaising and working alongside the education department.
You will form part of the area management team and the successful candidate will have a proven set of behaviours linked to the key values of: Team Working, Caring, Innovation and Professionalism.
Full details of the role can be found in the attached job description and person specification.
You must be qualified as a HCPC Registered Paramedic or NMC Nurse, working at Band 6 level.
You must be a team player, accept responsibility and be a confident decision maker. You must be passionate in the development of newly trained staff and the maintenance of excellent standards. You will possess good interpersonal and communications skills. You will need to be competent in basic IT and capable of logical thinking, practical problem-solving, objective assessment skills and report writing. You must also be able to motivate and support others.
We believe and encourage commitment to your own ongoing personal and professional development is essential and should be demonstrated in your application and successful applicants will need to demonstrate how their personal values align with the Trust’s core values.
Benefits we offer:
- Expert training and support from our dedicated in-house education team.
- Holiday entitlement is 27 days rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years, plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time).
- Enrolment into the NHS Pension Scheme.
- Access to continual professional development and opportunities within SCAS and the NHS.
- Occupational Health support along with an Employee Assistance Programme.
- NHS Discounts in over 200+ stores including Holidays, Days out, Car insurance, Restaurants and Clothing.
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of emergency, urgent care and non-emergency healthcare services, along with commercial logistics services.
The Trust delivers most of these services to the populations of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire as well as non-emergency patient transport services in Surrey and Sussex.
We serve a population of over 7 million and answer over 500,000 urgent calls a year. We employ 4,551 staff who, together with over 1,100 volunteers, enable us to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Full details of the role can be found in the attached job description and person specification.
All applicants for this position will be required to undergo a competitive selection process involving a clinical assessment followed by a panel interview.
If you have successfully passed a CTE Sim assessment within the last 6 months, you will not be required to complete this again. Please ensure you inform the recruitment officer of this when you are shortlisted.
Candidates must successfully pass both the assessment and interview.
For an informal discussion about the post, please contact either Lisa Pringle or Siobhan Law by e-mail: [email protected]@scas.nhs.uk
All applicants for this position will be required to undergo a competitive selection process involving a formal interview and assessment.
Assessment dates and interview dates will be advised as soon as possible. Assessments will be held in Education and Training Centre, Bone Lane, Newbury, Berkshire. Interviews will be held in Milton Keynes.
Please Note: you will need to meet the essential criteria as a minimum in order for your application to be shortlisted.You must also have completed your Consolidation of Learning portfolio and have demonstrable experience of working as a Paramedic/Nurse.