Education Facilitator

Job summary

Main duties of the job

As an Education Facilitator, you will:

*Provide guidance and support to a range of clinical staff and learners, ensuring high standards of clinical skills development and professional growth.

*Deliver and evaluate teaching sessions including clinical induction, preceptorship, healthcare support worker development, and Care Certificate programmes.

*Support students and learners on placement, ensuring compliance with academic standards and promoting a positive learning experience.

*Facilitate onboarding programmes and learner forums, acting on feedback to optimise learner support.

*Collaborate with internal teams and external partners such as Higher Education Institutes and NHS organisations to maintain strong educational links.

*Apply expert knowledge to support practice supervision and assessment, ensuring safe and effective learning environments.

*Contribute to audits, evaluations, and training needs analyses to inform education planning and service improvement.

*Act as a role model for professional behaviour, promoting the Trust's values of compassion, excellence, and collaboration.

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.

For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour