Practice Education Facilitator

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the team of Practice Education Facilitators within Clinical Education at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, for a 10 month period to provide service continuity during maternity leave. Our dynamic PEF team ensure the provision of high quality multi-professional learning environments within the Trust and are a key interface between CCC and regional partners. You will work with the team to support a range of learners and educators across the Trust, contributing to the preparation of reports to evidence the ongoing quality of placements at CCC. You will contribute to the development of learning opportunities and educational programmes., Duties of this job will include:

• Assessing the quality of clinical and other practice learning environments and proposing interventions for improvement.
• Facilitating the development of clinical practice supervisors/assessors/educators and providing supervision and support structures.
• Providing on-site support and continuous professional development activities for staff and practice supervisors, assessors and educators.
• Developing and maintaining links with HEIs to support supervisors/assessors and practice education.

This Band 6 post is an excellent opportunity to develop skills and experience in an education role. You will bring an existing passion for placement education and an established reputation as a clinical role model. Your excellent communication skills, attention to detail and ability to work autonomously will be challenged and developed within this role.

Clinical Education operates across all CCC sites and hub locations. You will need to be mobile and responsive to the needs of learners and the service. We welcome applications from Healthcare Professionals registered in the UK who have a passion for quality in placement learning.

This post is also suitable for a secondment with prior agreement from applicant’s manager.

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is one of three specialist cancer centres in England. With 1,800 specialist staff and three sites, we are one of the largest NHS providers of non-surgical cancer treatment. The Trust has a unique multi-site care model serving the 2.4 million population across Cheshire and Merseyside and is consistently rated by patients as one of the best performing hospitals.

Our vision is to not only maintain this level of commitment to excellence but to work with our academic and healthcare partners across the region to ensure care, treatment and patient outcomes continuously improve in the future. We are very proud of all our expert and loyal staff and we welcome people who share the collective aim of delivering excellence in everything that we do.

Our values represent who we are and what we believe in. They define how we act to deliver the best possible care for our patients and shape The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as a great place to work.