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Job description

The post holder will be provide professional leadership to inform the education, learning and development of the nursing and midwifery workforce to ensure the delivery of high standards of care and service user experience. The post holder will lead on the development of, and sustain, an effective learning environment for nursing, midwifery and specialist community public health nursing students on a Trust-wide basis. They will specifically lead on the development of a supervision and assessment governance framework to ensure the regulatory body’s requirements for nurses, midwives and specialist community public health nursing (Nursing and Midwifery Council) are met. The post holder will lead a team of Practice Education Facilitators who will provide an operational role in ensuring the high quality of placement learning experience for students is maintained, to ensure students completing programmes for registration or recording a qualification with NMC competence. They will establish and maintain partnership working with relevant education providers. They will be responsible for providing strong professional support and leadership for Ward Sisters/Charge Nurses and Team Leaders, Nominated persons. Please visit jobs.hscni.net to see Job Description and Personnel Specification.

Responsibilities

• Lead on ensuring the education of nurses and midwives is delivered through an effective governance framework including review of learning and development activities and their impact on patient outcomes.
• Lead on the development of an effective learning culture that maximises competence acquisition of students on nursing/midwifery/specialist public health nursing programmes to provide high quality patient/client care.
• Lead on the development of an effective infrastructure to support the supervision and assessment of nursing and midwifery students in practice.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills

• Currently a Registered Nurse (Level 1), Midwife or Specialist Community Public Health Nurse on the NMC live register.
• Hold a current full driving licence which is valid for use in the UK and have access to a car on appointment.

Further Information

Location: Bannvale-Ferndale Education & Workforce Development, Craigavon.