Clinical Skills Facilitator | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

The Clinical Skills Facilitator is responsible for delivering professional and
client-centred learning and development interventions to meet the essential and relevant to role needs of clinical staff within the organisation. In conjunction with the Continuing Professional Development Manager, the post holder will develop and deliver learning and development interventions in accordance with the delivery of the Trust strategy, vision, values and desired culture to ensure that the Trust is equipped to provide a world class patient experience and is a great place to work for its staff.
The successful candidate will be able to work effectively as a Clinical Skills Facilitator within a mental health and learning disability Trust. They will have excellent communication skills, and welcome a challenge and have a real desire to make a difference to the Clinical Skills within Trust held by a range of clinical teams.
The main duties of the job will include identifying and leading on a range of Clinical Skills specializing in the Trust specialty of mental heath and learning disability . The successful candidate will be required to form key relationships with a range of stakeholders across the Trust and beyond in order to ensure that evidence based Clinical Skills are taught within the Trust.
The successful candidate will have responsibility for a range of a resources within their allocated projects. They will also be required to contribute where appropriate to research and development within the Trust.
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, across five boroughs of Greater Manchester
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
Our ambition is to maximise people’s potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
1. Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change staff.
2. Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
3. Access to Continued Professional Development
4. Involvement in improvement and research activities
5. Health and Wellbeing activities and access to staff wellbeing.
If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople
https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values
The successful candidate will also:
• Contribute to the education and workforce development action plan, to
improve overall clinical performance and effectiveness
• Contribute to the recruitment, induction, and development of clinical staff groups within the Trust.
• Support clinicians to identify, diagnose and plan to address learning and
development needs through a clear strategic framework and a pragmatic,
tailored support to services to enable performance improvement and skills
development
• Manage and prioritise their own portfolio of work, consisting of learning and development and Clinical Skills responsibilities to meet required deadlines and objectives
• Design, deliver and evaluate learning programs and interventions
across the Education and Workforce Development Team’s subject areas as
required, including but not limited to venepuncture, immunisation and vaccination updates, ECG, common mental health conditions and other skills, behaviours and competencies as required.
• Design and development of a range of learning and development
interventions including group workshops, practice based learning,
competency packages, small group facilitation and action learning sets.
• Prepare learning and development resources and materials to support
learning.
• Facilitate work based learning opportunities such as working with teams on bespoke sessions to meet specific needs, working in collaboration with
managers and Learning Associates where appropriate.
• Supports other facilitators, trainers and Learning Associates across the
organisation, providing advice and support on best practice in Learning and
Development interventions.
• Support clinicians in the development and design of competency and
knowledge assessment tools where appropriate to ensure that learning
outcomes are measured and there are robust processes for embedding
learning into practice.
• Provide advice and guidance to managers and staff on learning
opportunities available to meet needs identified, signposting to internal and
external learning opportunities were appropriate.
• Provide support, advice and guidance for managers and teams to identify
training needs for current and future service needs and to develop
competency profiles that support clinical outcomes.
• Assist in the development and implementation of an annual L&D plan based on the training needs identified and prioritised via the learning needs
analysis.
• Regularly undertake research and development in relation to L&D including horizon scanning of upcoming good practice, benchmarking with other organisations/industries to add value to our internal L&D services,
triangulation of data to provide meaningful analysis of organisational issues
and regularly maintain own continuous professional development.
• Champion a continuous improvement mindset and a ‘can do’ approach to
ensuring the continuing professional development work stream delivers
added value through its services.
• To promote Essential/Key Skills uptake throughout the organisation, to
enhance the skills of the workforce.
• Design and deliver effective learning and development interventions tailored to the perspective and communication needs of the audience.
• Demonstrate effective influencing and negotiation skills to achieve effective outcomes
• Actively communicate through a range of styles appropriate to the situation and acknowledges, recognises and encourages the contribution of others
• Develop understanding of the wider organisational objectives and plans
• Communicate complex and highly sensitive information effectively and
appropriately
• Recognise and celebrate the success and achievements of own team and
others
• Communicate updates, ideas and share developments in order to develop
themselves, the team and the wider organisation
• Provide facilitation skills to improve individual and team skills and
competencies and to enable people in the organisation to deliver the
organisation’s objectives
• Respond to competing demands and changing priorities
• Ability to prioritise own workload and that of relevant projects in order to
meet specified deadlines managing self
• Continuously improve own knowledge of L&D practice, benchmarking,
knowledge management, and technology
• Utilise MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and a variety of databases to create
reports, policies, procedures, spreadsheets, graphs, presentations and
guidance documents as appropriate.
• Travel to meetings nationally, regionally and locally as and when required.
• Contribute to the Education and Workforce Development L&D planning, the development of the Education and Workforce Development Action Plan and the development of skills, competencies and behaviours to ensure safe and effective services to patients/service users/clients. Provide facilitation
advice and L&D expertise to service areas.
• Policy and Service Development Implementation
• To deputise for the CPD Manager
This advert closes on Friday 19 Jan 2024