Practice Educator

The Nursing Quality Team are seeking 5 enthusiastic staff to become Practice Educators supporting the nursing quality agenda, covering a variety of different nursing subjects/clinical skills. Roles dedicated to supporting education on Learning Disabilities and Autism and Documentation as well as supporting key nursing priority work streams.

Working hours will span Monday - Friday covering office type hours, flexible working/compressed hours is available.

This is a fixed term secondment which will end on 31st March 2027. You must have approval to be released to commence in post in August prior to application by your Lead Nurse / Matron.

The Practice Educator role is designed to influence the quality of the clinical environment by providing support, educational input and development activities for both registered and unregistered healthcare staff and students on pre-registration training programs around the importance of nursing quality and nursing priorities care across the organisation.

The role aims to enhance the quality of practice and positively contribute to the current and future healthcare professional workforce through providing department specific education and training, expanding the knowledge base of nursing staff and promoting evidence-based practice through the organisation. The post holder will work in close co-operation with all members of the Multi-disciplinary team.

Job Description for Practice Educator

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role and responsibilities.

• Registered Nurse with the NMC
• Evidence of post registration personal and professional development.
• Teaching and assessing qualification e.g. Practice Assessor
• Professional Nurse Advocate to working towards

• Substantial and relevant post- registration experience
• Experience of providing mentorship / practice supervision / assessment to learners in practice
• Experience of working within teams
• Extensive experience of working in an acute clinical setting
• Experience in delivering training packages

• Please describe in around 100 words:
  What Equality & Diversity means to you and why they are important.
• Please describe in around 100 words:
  What motivates you to do a good job

• Ability to demonstrate effective leadership to facilitate changes in practice

• Knowledge of national and local agenda for acute care.
• Knowledge around specific needs of department specific patient needs
• Knowledge of current issues affecting education in healthcare, including quality monitoring issues

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Barnsley Hospital NHS FT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity and fair treatment to all applicants.

For individuals who may require sponsorship under the skilled worker or health & care visa route please use the link on the right hand side of the advert to check your eligibility.

The cost of the DBS (criminal records check) for Band 6 and above roles will only be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction.

Please note we reserve the right to close positions early