Main area AHP Education Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9am - 5pm) Job ref 350-TWS6964817

Site V7 Building Town Prescot Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 16/02/2025 23:59

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

Job overview

The postholder will support with the development of AHP degree apprenticeships at Mersey Care NHS FT.

On an operational level this will include providing expert advice, guidance and support to both AHP apprentices and their Educators, monitoring the overall quality of the learning experience and enabling appropriate allocation of apprentices to practice placements.

Overall contribution by the post holder to the continuous development of the AHP degree apprenticeship provision at Mersey Care will include partnership working with associated Higher Education Institutions, Mersey Care Senior Leadership and NHS England colleagues.

Shortlisting planned for: 17 February 2025

Interview planned for: 4 March 2025

Main duties of the job

1. Developing and supporting AHP Educators in decisions relating to the AHP apprentice experience including the achievement of learning outcomes, competence and fitness for practice.
2. Supporting and facilitating the development of AHP Educators providing supervision and support structures in order to build education in practice capability, consistency and efficiency.
3. Engaging with and developing practice placements across all Allied Health Professions to ensure appropriate allocation of AHP apprentices in order to enable all apprentices to successfully complete their individual programmes.

Working for our organisation

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Assessing the quality of a range of practice learning environments, determining interventions to sustain and enhance practice education; ensuring all service areas/placement providers have an up-to-date action plan in place, informing the annual quality monitoring of Learning and Development Agreements.
2. Supporting and facilitating the development of clinical practice mentors/practice supervisors, providing supervision and support structures in order to build education in practice capability, consistency and efficiency.
3. Leading on the structuring and coordination of inter-professional learning activity across a service area(s).
4. Participating in single Quality Assurance multi-professional site visits across organisations.
5. Developing, co-coordinating, evaluating and implementing education programmes with Higher Education partners.
6. Lead on the structuring, design and delivery of inter-professional learning opportunities in practice for healthcare students and mentors/practice supervisors.
7. Work in partnership with the HEIs in the planning, delivery and review of development programmes for mentors/practice supervisors.
8. Identify opportunities where multi-professional mentorship, practice supervision can be facilitated in practice.
9. Produce and maintain a portfolio of education in practice activity within service area(s).
10. Lead on the development, implementation and review of education in practice learning environments in line with educational policy.
11. Prepare and support mentors/practice supervisors to perform educational audits/self-assessments.
12. Undertake research and development relevant to mentorship/education in practice and the clinical learning environment.
13. Assess and benchmark clinical and other practice educational environments within own organisation and with key external partners.
14. Develop and support mentors/practice supervisors in decisions relating to the student experience.
15. Identify shortfalls in mentors/practice supervisors across a range of learning environments.
16. Provide best practice advice in a clinical setting for mentors/practice supervisors and staff.
17. Identify outcomes of inter-professional learning experiences.
18. Collaborate with key external partners in Higher Education Institutions.
19. Network locally, regionally and nationally with peer group to support the sharing of best practice.
20. Act as an expert resource/Champion of Inter-professional Learning in Placement Providers.
21. Communicate educational and practice information across placement providers and educational Institutions.
22. Ensure that confidentiality is maintained at all times in conjunction with organisational policies.

Person specification

Qualifications

* Specialist knowledge of education in practice at Masters level equivalent.
* Professional qualification, to a minimum of degree level, with up-to-date professional registration with NMC/HCPC.

Knowledge & Experience

* Substantial broad range of post qualifying clinical experience.
* Extensive experience of teaching, supervising and assessing healthcare students in the practice setting.
* Experience of having worked across professional and organisational boundaries.
* Practical experience of facilitating change.
* Experience of staff management/staff supervision.
* Experience of developing and implementing new systems and procedures.
* Knowledge and experience of the private, voluntary and independent sector.
* Experience of working within Allied Health Professionals in a variety of clinical settings.

Values

* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented

Skills

* Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
* Excellent interpersonal skills able to engage and build effective relationships at all levels in stakeholder organisations.
* Ability to present to large groups of people.
* Ability to teach and facilitate in a variety of settings with different groups of staff.
* Able to plan, implement and evaluate education programmes.
* Excellent organisational and administrative skills.
* Knowledge of different methods/styles for teaching and learning.
* Detailed understanding of curriculum development.
* Detailed understanding of a range of regulatory body requirements.
* In depth knowledge of Quality Assurance principles and framework.
* Working knowledge of Inter-professional learning theory.
* Microsoft office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access.
* Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
* Ability to work without supervision and use own initiative.
* Ability to work flexibly and manage competing priorities.
* Consistently high attention to detail and quality of work.
* Ability to work as a member of a team.
* Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with people from a wide range of personal and professional backgrounds.
* Adaptable to meet differing learning styles/preferences.
* Willingness to work across organisation boundaries.
* Ability to write evidence-based reports.
* Understanding of quality improvement methodology and outcome measurement.
* Ability to supervise staff on a day-to-day basis.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020.

Name Jan Cooper Job title Education Liaison Lead Email address jan.cooper@merseycare.nhs.uk Additional information

Availability via MS Teams calls via appointment please send a request via email.

FULFIL YOUR POTENTIAL AND SPREAD YOUR WINGS WITH MERSEY CARE

At Mersey Care, our commitment to ‘perfect care’ lies at the heart of everything we do, a person centred care that starts with you. It’s a pledge to create an environment and staff support that will enable you to do the best job you can possibly do, to be the best you can possibly be.

You’ll be joining one of the most innovative and progressive NHS trusts in the country. One that offers specialist inpatient and community services to support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services.

You’ll have a home in the North West of England where your work/life balance is respected and working from sites easily commutable from Liverpool, Manchester, North Wales and Cheshire with many roles operating a hybrid working system.

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