Clinical Development Facilitator Job Overview An existing opportunity is available for a registered Allied Health Professional or Nurse to join the Professional Development Department as a Clinical Development Facilitator which will focus on supporting all the pre-registration Allied Health Professional and Nursing students within Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC), along with the post-registration clinical students. The Clinical Development Facilitator will be clinically based and work in partnership with the clinical practice areas, with a focus on the clinical registered workforce’s maintenance and development of competency and the clinical students’ learning and assessment in practice. The Clinical Development Facilitator will also support the Return to Practice framework, ensuring that the student/learner receives the appropriate placement, mentorship and assessment in practice. Main Duties Include Work with the Professional Development Managers for Pre-registration and Post-Registration Students (Allied Health Professionals and Nursing) to ensure that clinical placements are in line with the regulatory requirements and the clinical area has an educational audit, and if there is an associated action plan, ensures that it is adhered to and completed in a timely manner by the clinical teams. Work with the Professional Development Managers for the Pre-Registration and Post-Registration students (Allied Health Professionals and Nursing) and Higher Education Institutes to ensure the appropriate allocations of students/learners in various clinical areas. Work with the Professional Development Managers and Higher education institutes to increase placement capacity with in the community setting. Working for our organisation Be Part of Our Team... BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands. If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you. IMPORTANT Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ruth Bunce-Sweeney Job title: Deputy Head of Professional Development Email address: ruth.bunce-sweeney@nhs.net Telephone number: 07802655602
