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Education Practitioner Learning Disabilities

On-site in London·Full-time·Added today (last checked 10 Nov)

Barts Health NHS Trust

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Our summary

Salary: £58,133 - £65,261 a year
About £3,690 - £4,030 a month after tax.
Work mode: On-site, London
Contract: Permanent, full-time hours
Closing date: Apply by Tuesday 24 November
Commute: Cycle to work scheme

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

The role

Advert: Band 7 Education Practitioner, Post Graduate Education Team.

Contract type: Substantive

Working pattern: 1.0 WTE (Full-time)

Site: Trust wide

The Post Graduate Education Team has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and highly motivated practitioner with a passion for education to join our team as an Education Practitioner (Learning Disabilities & Autism).

This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact on patient care while supporting the professional development of staff across the trust. In this role, you will support the design, delivery, and evaluation of high-quality learning and development opportunities that enhance the knowledge, skills, and confidence of Nursing, Midwifery, Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), and the wider multidisciplinary workforce in providing outstanding care for people with learning disabilities and autism across Barts Health NHS Trust.

What you'll do

The purpose of the role is to contribute to the Trust wide development of high-quality education for Bart’s Health. Supporting the Education Academy, Learning Disability and Trust wide teams in the delivery of high-quality training and development to enable excellent patient care.

The role holder will have a particular focus on:

1. Liaising with Trust wide teams to support the academy with training needs analysis in relation to care of service users with learning disabilities and autism in physical health settings.
2. The development and delivery of Barts Health learning disabilities and autism education including but not limited to online learning, in person and online contemporaneous sessions, modules and programmes of learning. This may involve collaboration with external institutions and organisations to accredit offers or delivery in partnership.
3. Evaluate the impact of the learning disabilities focused development programs to ensure improvements in practice are realised. Collaborate closely with patient safety teams to support this work.
4. Provision of ongoing supervision, coaching, reflective practice and support structures to ensure learning is embedded in practice.
5. Evaluating the value of externally offered programmes and if considered beneficial working in partnership with provider to ensure fit for purpose for Barts Health, implemented effectively and evaluated.

Essential criteria

Registered Nurse / midwife / Allied Health Professional (AHP)
Practice Supervisor and Assessor or equivalent AHP practice support qualification
Post Graduate Certificate (PG cert) in Education/or willing to do when in post
Experience developing and facilitating education in practice and the classroom around learning disabilities and autism
Clinical background in supporting patients with learning disabilities and autism
Supervising and assessing learners in practice
Supporting the development of and implementing new initiatives
Experience of conflict management with staff, learners and service users
Understanding and implementing the principles of clinical governance
Knowledge and understanding of learning disabilities and autism education in a physical health setting for a range of professions
Knowledge and understanding of the current education priorities within the NHS and healthcare wider healthcare
Excellent and relevant up to date clinical skills in learning disabilities and autism care
Expertise in facilitating and supporting learners and others in groups or as individuals along with skills of audit and evaluation
Good organisational skills including prioritising workload with the ability to escalate when concerned about scope or capacity
Data analysis skills
Skills in utilising a range of digital tools including generative AI, MS Office Suite including MS Forms, Teams, Outlook and SharePoint
Preparing and writing reports for presentation in a range of settings
Supporting quality monitoring processes
Working in a team and effective communication
Facilitating teaching and learning on virtual platforms.

Desirable criteria

Coaching and Mentoring qualification
Action Learning Set Facilitator Qualification
Masters level study

About Barts Health NHS Trust

Industry: Health and social care

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About the company & team

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

Additional information

Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals’ who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.

After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to Barts Health NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Barts Health is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to child protection. The Trust aims to ensure as far as is possible that anyone, paid or unpaid, who seeks to work in our organisation and who gains access to children, is safe to do so. As such, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check as part of the recruitment process if appointed to a post with direct access to children or vulnerable adults.

Barts Health promotes active travel as part of its goal to reach Net Zero. Each site is accessible by public transport and the Trust has a cycle to work scheme and some sites have Brompton Hire Pods.

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