Education Facilitator - Surgical

Job summary

Main duties of the job

This role is essential in creating a learning environment that supports staff in their continuous professional development. You will provide mentorship, clinical supervision, and direct support to a range of staff, ensuring they are equipped with the competencies necessary to deliver high-quality care. You will also assist in the development and delivery of induction programmes, tailored learning plans, and specialty training for all staff in the operating department.

As part of the senior team, you will have the opportunity to collaborate closely with Clinical Leads, Education Leads, and other key stakeholders to ensure the smooth running of education programmes. You will assist with developing long-term work plans, participate in educational meetings and forums, and help evaluate training activities to continuously improve their effectiveness.

If you are passionate about education, have a strong clinical background in the operating department, and are committed to help others grow professionally, this role offers a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact. Join the Theatre Education Team at Royal Papworth Hospital and be part of a team that values learning, collaboration, and patient-centred care.

Job responsibilities

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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