Practice Facilitator

Job overview

Are you a Nursing Associate who is passionate about supporting supporting Healthcare Support Workers (HCSWs) to deliver excellent patient care? Do you enjoy being an exemplary role model who demonstrates safe and effective practice? If so this role may be suitable for you.

As a Practice Facilitator you will be focusing on the HCSWs. You will be working as a member of the ASCR Ward Practice Facilitator Team.

You will be responsible for:

• Facilitating education pathways for HCSWs band 2 and 3 of varying ages and abilities within the ASCR wards.
• Facilitating education and guidance involving one to one support and supporting their assessors with the assessment of competencies in practice.
• Working within in policies and procedures and providing internal quality assurance as required.

You will also work alongside others in a similar role in practice and the practice facilitator team to help develop a workforce with the skills, knowledge, and competence necessary to deliver effective patient care and to enhance the quality of the service.

Main duties of the job

• Excellent interpersonal and effective communication skills. Communicate sensitive information with empathy to HCSWs, assessors and their managers.
• Work alongside HCSWs in the clinical environment according to required standards and to escalate any concerns.
• Work closely with ward managers to support HCSW performance, conduct and professionalism.
• Assess clinical skills.
• Ability to work to deadlines agreed by education leads, practice facilitators and prioritise own workload.
• Manage time effectively and problem solve.
• With guidance from the practice facilitator team, work autonomously and be accountable for a cohort of HCSWs.
• Work well independently and as part of a team.
• Motivated.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Indentify HCSWs who are failing to meet targets.
• Report any concerns to the line manager identifying issues outside their level of competence.
• Planning, preparing and teaching.
• Support wider Practice Facilitator Team within scope of practice
• Prioritise areas for development, identify current performance requirements relevant to own practice and stay up to date with current practice.
• Seek feedback, collect information and continually reflect on own performance.
• Record keeping.
• Maintain mandatory training in line with Trust policy.
• Follow Trust policies.
• Undertake relevant teaching courses.
• Act as an excellent role model.
• Work with managers to support HCSWs performance, conduct and professionalism.
• Demonstrate excellent customer care.
• Act within limits of own competence.