health educator North Shields, England
Job description
An opportunity has arisen has arisen for a Band 7 Mental Health Specialty Clinical Educator within our dedicated community mental health team who work into nursing and residential homes in North Tyneside. The team base is within the Community Mental Health team at North Tyneside General Hospital.
This is a part time post at 0.6 WTE (22.5 hours a week) fixed term for a year.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated clinician who can demonstrate the ability to lead and motivate staff.
You will be a team player with established skills in communication, organisation and with clinical management experience. You will have the ability to engage clinically with all members of the multi-disciplinary team. You will have in depth proven clinical knowledge and skills in caring for patients as well as working with the values of Northumbria Healthcare Trust guiding the nursing team to work within this framework. You will be expected to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, along with the ability to sensitively manage change.
Working as a core member of the team you will have responsibility for the overall continuing workforce development of staff within the specialty. You will lead on the non-statutory and mandatory training needs within your speciality area. You will be responsible for the production and delivery of a training needs analysis plan in line with existing national guidance where relevant. You will be responsible for making regular assessments and recommendations based on these needs and guidelines.
You will act as a clinical and professional role model to maintain and develop exceptional standards of clinical care. You will promote and foster a culture of education and clinical development within the workforce. You will uphold high standards of practice development and clinical supervision.
You will work alongside other specialities and professional groups to promote and maintain education and clinical development within the workforce
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Deploy an innovative approach to learning and development activities.
Act as an expert link with staff from other areas to share knowledge, best practice and expertise.
Able to present highly complex or sensitive information to both individuals and groups.
Demonstrate self-awareness in relation to personal impact whilst working alongside teams and individuals, fostering trust and respect.
Contribute to relevant meetings ensuring effective communication of educational initiatives and sharing best practice.
Be Adaptable and flexible.
Provide complex analysis and recommendations on learning needs and plans where necessary.
Provide effective and honest feedback, which may be sensitive in nature, to staff and teams. Deploy excellent verbal communication skills to motivate staff to change practice.
Provide leadership, clinical supervision, coaching and training to clinical staff.
Demonstrate empathy, reassurance and excellent interpersonal skills when working with learners in practice on performance and achievement of competencies.
Contribute to a climate where staff appropriately question and challenge practice and where decision-making can be openly debated and discussed.
Develop and maintain effective links with other educators both internal and external to the organisation.
Must be able to demonstrate the English language proficiency level required for this post.
Ability to set realistic targets and meet deadlines.
Effectively plans and delivers a range of complex projects, educational programs and assessments and adjust to the needs of the trust.
Effectively use evaluations to adjust educational programme, content and delivery.
Develop lead and co-ordinate clinical workshops, study days and training programmes for a variety of topics including complex clinical skills.
