Practice Education & Development Practitioner

Job summary

Main duties of the job

The Practice Placement Facilitator supports high quality clinical learning environments across the organisation, ensuring students and learners have safe, effective, and well supervised placements.

Monitor and evaluate the quality of placements through audits, feedback mechanisms, and compliance with regulatory standards (NMC, HCPC, GMC, etc.).

Support clinical areas to implement action plans following quality reviews, student feedback, or regulatory recommendations.

Promote evidence based supervision models and ensure mentors, supervisors, and assessors are appropriately trained and supported.

Provide visible support to students and learners in practice, addressing concerns, supporting wellbeing, and escalating issues where required.

Offer guidance and training to practice supervisors and assessors, ensuring they understand their responsibilities and assessment requirements.

Facilitate induction, orientation, and ongoing support for learners across all placement areas.

Maintain accurate placement records, capacity data, and quality metrics to support governance processes.

Job responsibilities

If you are being interviewed you must accept an interview slot in the system to continue, even if you have arranged with the manager.

You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks.

We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented.

Full Job Descriptions can be found in the adverts supporting documents.

Over reliance on AI-generated content is discouraged and may diminish the applicant's chances of success.

For the most up-to-date information on visa requirements and eligibility, please check online to determine whether you can apply.

From April 9th 2025 - Healthcare assistants - You must have been employed for a minimum of two years of as a HCA Band 3 within the NHS for the Trust to consider sponsorship (we will only consider sponsorship if you meet this criteria and have a current visa expiring within 3 months).