Job overview
Practice Education Facilitator (PEF)
12-month Secondment Position
Base: To be agreed with successful candidate.
Area: Trust Wide.
Pay: Band 7
1 x 37.5 hour post
Are you an experienced Registered Professional with a passion to support the education of learners in practice? NWAS is looking for a Practice Education Facilitator (PEF) to complete a 12 month secondment.
Working to the Consultant Paramedic for Education and with the wider PEF team you will be responsible for ensuring that all learners in practice, practice educators and operational/clinical teams are clearly orientated to the learning in practice requirements of Higher Education Institutes (HEI) programmes. You will primarily support the BSc Paramedic programmes, ensuring that learners in practice are monitored and supported. You will liaise with the Trust’s Partner HEIs to ensure all external learners access high quality clinical placements within NWAS.
Main duties of the job
To be successful in this role, you will be a registered healthcare professional with degree level qualification (or Dip HE with degree top up). You will also hold a credit bearing higher education module (at level 5, 6 or 7) and have extensive experience (post NQP completion) of Practice Education and developing learners in practice as part of educational placements.
To ensure that we invest in developing a nurturing, positive and thriving culture, it is important to us to recruit those who demonstrate the right behaviours. As part of this recruitment process, if you are successfully shortlisted you will be invited to take part in an assessment centre, followed by a professional discussion.
The dates of these elements are to be confirmed.
Informal enquiries to discuss the opportunity are welcomed to vinny.romano@ nwas.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Visa sponsorship is not possible for this role for either candidates or existing employees. This role does not meet the eligibility criteria for Skilled Worker/ Health and Care Worker visas as set out at gov.uk. Graduate visa holders should have no expectation of long-term employment through sponsorship. Additionally, your visa conditions and validity period must allow you to work in the role question and for a suitable period to allow training and execution without requiring sponsorship.
Please ensure that you have read and understood the job description and person specification before applying.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Broad range of post qualifying clinical experience for a minimum of 3 years
- Extensive experience of teaching, supervising and assessing healthcare students in the practice setting
- Experience of having worked across professional and organizational boundaries
- Practical experience of facilitating change
- Experience of staff management/staff supervision
- Experience of developing and implementing new systems and procedures
- Knowledge and experience of the private, voluntary and independent sector
Qualifications
Essential
- 1st level degree
- Specialist knowledge of education in practice at Masters level equivalent eg mentorship module at Masters level;
- Professional qualification, to a minimum of degree level, with up to date professional registration
- European Computer Driving License
Special Aptitudes/Abilities
Essential
- Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
- Ability to work without supervision and use own initiative
- Ability to work flexibly and manage competing priorities
- Consistently high attention to detail and quality of work
- Ability to work as a member of a team
- Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with people from a wide range of personal and professional backgrounds
- Adaptable to meet differing learning styles/ preferences
- Willingness to work across organization boundaries
- Ability to write evidence based reports
- Understanding of quality improvement methodology and outcome measurement
- Ability to supervise staff on a day to day basis
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
Essential
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Excellent interpersonal skills able to engage and build effective relationships at all levels in stakeholder organisations
- Ability to present to large groups of people
- Ability to teach and facilitate in a variety of settings with different groups of staff
- Able to plan, implement and evaluate education programmes
- Excellent organizational and administrative skills
- Excellent time management skills
- Knowledge of different methods/ styles for teaching and learning
- Detailed understanding of curriculum development including the generation of learning outcomes
- Detailed understanding of a range of regulatory body requirements
- In depth knowledge of Quality Assurance principles and framework
- Working knowledge of Interprofessional learning theory
- Microsoft office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access
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This advert is for Practice Education Facilitator with North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust in Bolton, North West, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Healthcare support worker role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 PA. The contract type is 12 months (Fixed Term until 31.05.27). The application deadline is 28 Jun 2026.
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