18 Oct
Oxford University Hospitals
Oxford
Job description
Job overview
Work directly alongside staff for % of the role to facilitate staff becoming competent and capable practitioners by improving the quality of the learning environment by providing support, supervision, educational and professional development opportunities for all, within the practice setting.
Ensuring to act as a positive, professional, role model in promoting clinical excellence and offer expert, professional development advice ensuring practice is patient centred and evidence based.
Are you passionate about education and staff development within the perioperative environment?
Do you enjoy supporting learners to achieve their full potential?
Then we have a unique opportunity for you to join our team as a Clinical Facilitator Anaesthetics & Recovery Practitioner, Women’s Centre Theatres.
The Surgery Women’s & Oncology Theatres’ Education team, work alongside staff and students, in the clinical area, to develop their practice alongside supporting Cross Divisional Theatre courses, including the OUH Post Graduate Certificate in Advanced Perioperative Practice.
As a team we are passionate about education and the continued professional development of our students and peers. This is a hands-on and clinical role where you will be working alongside learners to coach and develop their clinical skill set.
As a Clinical Facilitator you will always provide effective leadership and clinical care as a part of our Theatre team and role model best practice.
Main duties of the job
Practice & Staff Development
Work directly alongside staff for % of the role to raise, monitor and evaluate standards of clinical practice using evidence-based frameworks.
Establish and develop effective relationships with the theatre team to plan and facilitate changes and innovation in practice.
Use coaching / mentoring-style techniques to support practitioners in clinical areas and facilitate the implementation of personal development plans, agreed programmes of change and project work within the service, demonstrating a commitment to disseminating information and sharing experiences.
Act as a role model and clinical expert to colleagues by guiding practice, assessing competence, and supporting the implementation of any policies to actively enhance learning in the knowledge and provision of perioperative care.
In collaboration with senior clinical staff,
develop and maintain an effective and creative learning environment for all individuals seeking knowledge and experience in perioperative practice and support the theatre sisters / team leaders, and matron in all matters relating to staff development.
Involved in informal and formal teaching including skills and orientation of new staff. The teaching involved will mostly relate to the Cross Divisional Theatre courses however we do support other Divisional teaching within SuWOn.
This is an opportunity to develop formal skills as a lecturer with the possibility of completing a formal accreditation in education.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital,
Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
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Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family.
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