Healthcare Assistant Facilitator

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Education Team as a Healthcare Assistant Facilitator. This role will involve both classroom clinical teaching and working with HCA's in the clinical areas.

The role will concentrate on tasks that directly support the needs of training and supporting Healthcare Assistants. The successful post holder will be expected to support the HCA Facilitator team 2x days a week, and the Manual Handling team 1x day a week.

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individuals with an interest in delivery training to a high standard. Good communication skills are essential as is an ability to work well with others and independently.

Main duties of the job

In liaison with the Practice Development Nurse you will be required:

• To provide clinical training and coaching for HCAs in their Band 2 foundation year.
• To provide classroom based teaching as part of the HCA Training & Assessment programme.
• To support the assessment of HCA’s at the end of their induction programme.
• To report all performance issues of HCAs registered with the Nurse Bank to the PDN.
• To ensure clinical incidents and near misses are accurately reported
• To develop and maintain good working relationships with the managers of the clinical areas used for training purposes.
• To assist with the preparation and delivery of a comprehensive, appropriate and evidence based teaching programme which enables HCA’s to support the delivery of basic nursing care meeting the necessary standards.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for roles and responsibilities of the job.