Practice Educator - Palliative Care

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Department of Clinical and Professional Development

Practice Educator – Palliative care:

37 hours per week

2 year fixed term

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated registered nurse to join the Department of Clinical and Professional Development, working collaboratively across Scottish Borders Health and Social Care Partnership.

• Are you someone who is experienced in delivering effective judgements and decisions for people with palliative care needs and care around dying?
• Are you someone who strives to make a difference in a person’s care experience?
• Do you have excellent communication, leadership and organisational skills?

This post will provide and develop palliative care, and care around dying education to health and social care staff in the Scottish Borders. This will include maintaining a presence in various care environments by delivering direct patient care alongside colleagues and role model and facilitate excellent practice in a coaching role. This will include discussions with colleagues, the assessment and care delivery process incorporating current practice, evidence base, future trends and developments in care, timeliness of interventions and related risks. The post holder will be given a clinical home within the specialist palliative care unit to ensure their own professional practice is maintained.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning, be a forward-thinking Registered Nurse, with a teaching qualification or have experience in both formal and informal teaching subjects relating to palliative care. The successful Educator will have experience of planning and delivering learning.

If you are a confident, enthusiastic and highly motivated individual who shares our desire to promote evidence–based practice, develop, and maintain high standards of quality care that is right for each person, we would like to hear from you.

For informal enquiries please contact:

Michelle Scott, Palliative Care Consultant Nurse michelle.scott@borders.scot.nhs.uk

Michelle O’Reilly, Chief Nurse Clinical and Professional Development michelle.oreilly@nhs.scot

Applicants will be asked to give a 10 minute presentation at interview.

***PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early***

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.