Radiographer Education Lead

Overview

This role supports the clinical team to provide high quality clinical practice placements and expand placement opportunities for the wider system. The post holder will provide support and guidance in delivering high quality innovative practice for AHPs. They will work in partnership with stakeholders to ensure the development of inter-professional learning opportunities in practice, and ensure appropriate learning environments are created and maintained to drive the integration of theory with practice.

They will support undergraduate and apprentice radiographers, imaging assistants and newly qualified radiographers as well as those embarking on postgraduate training opportunities.

• Identify and develop the best practice model for the provision of clinical placement provision for all AHPs within Radiography, including apprenticeship degree Radiographers, undergraduate Radiography students and sonography.
• Provide support to all learners in designated clinical learning environments in respect of the acquisition of enhanced skills and the delivery of holistic care based upon care pathways and evidence based practice.
• Promote high quality support to the supervisory staff to reduce the clinical burden on clinical educators at service delivery level.
• Use a variety of appropriate teaching and learning strategies to promote learning and reflection on practice, including working clinically alongside the learners and their practice supervisors / practice assessors.
• Direct and encourage learners and practitioners to other educational resources i.e. Library / IT etc. within the Trust / University and other relevant sources

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values
-Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.

• evidence of post grad training

• Good teaching and presentation skills

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.