Education Practitioner

Job Summary
Farleigh Hospice is a high performing organisation providing specialist palliative and end of life care for people with life limiting illness in the Mid Essex region. Our team at Farleigh has grown and evolved to meet the changing needs of the community we serve, and we are looking for highly motivated Education Practitioner to join our Education team.

Main duties of the job
We are seeking a passionate and experienced clinician to join Farleigh Hospice, with a key role in supporting the Hospice Education Collaborative, a partnership of three adult hospices working across Suffolk and North East Essex (SNEE) to develop and strengthen the specialist palliative and end-of-life care workforce. Based primarily at Farleigh Hospice, you will help design, develop and deliver high-quality education and training programmes for hospice staff, health and social care professionals, and external partners across the Integrated Care System. Working closely with colleagues across the collaborative, you will help shape innovative learning opportunities, support workforce development initiatives and 'grow your own' career pathways, and promote excellence in palliative and end-of-life care through evidence-based practice. This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic clinician who enjoys working collaboratively across organisations to improve knowledge, skills and patient care, while contributing to the strategic ambitions of both Farleigh Hospice and the wider Hospice Education Collaborative.

About Us
We offer a great working environment, a competitive pay and benefit package, flexible working and a strong team to support you

Job Responsibilities

• Providing education and training for those who work in any of the local hospices and those external to the hospice as part of the three adult hospices education collaboration across East, West Suffolk and North East Essex (SNEE) integrated Care System (ICS)
• Plan and developing sessions, reviewing training and education across SNEE
• Supporting education programmes for hospice staff and responding to urgent or individual training needs if they arise.
• To support and expand the grow your own pathways for staff across clinical teams
• The post holder will be required to work in any of the hospice education bases
• Work autonomously to provide specialist palliative advice and education/training to other health and social care professionals within and outside the hospice and promote evidence-based practice.
• Because of the special nature of the Hospice and its work the postholder may on occasion be asked to undertake other duties to help maintain our high standard of care.

Person Specification
Other Requirements (Essential)

• Ability to deal with people and situations sensitively and with confidentiality at all times
• Completion of all mandatory training within first anniversary of appointment
• Willingness and ability to be flexible to meet the needs of the team and Farleigh Hospice
• This post is subject to standard disclosure with the Criminal Records Bureau
• Must have full drivers licence and own transport.
• Ability to travel across the region on a regular basis

Skills/Ability/Knowledge (Essential)

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to critically analyse information
• Ability to work effectively with people with diverse skills, abilities and experience
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to establish and build effective working relationships, within the organisation with colleagues and volunteers and in other partner organisations.
• Ability to devise and deliver training programmes, including delivering training to large groups
• Ability to plan and organise activities regarding practice to include education program
• Ability to assess and benchmark clinical and other practice educational environments
• Ability to reflect on practice and propose changes
• A flexible attitude and approach to the changing work environment
• Ability to manage own time
• Able to identify relevant research-based information as part of evidence based practice
• Able and willing to work within an EoL and palliative care environment.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel spreadsheets

Qualifications (Essential)

• Knowledge and understanding of palliative care services and recent initiatives in health and social care
• High standard of IT literacy (e.g. word processing, e-mail, PowerPoint)
• IT literate (e.g. word processing and E-Mail)
• Professional qualification in nursing

Experience (Essential)

• Varied post-registration experience in nursing
• Minimum of two years experience in specialist palliative or end of life care
• Proven oral/written communication and interpersonal skills
• Willingness and ability to learn new skills
• Proven ability to keep abreast of current research and developments in palliative and end of life care, and adapting teaching accordingly
• Understanding of evidence based practice and ability to incorporate evidence into all areas of teaching
• Ability to work accurately and with attention to detail
• Experience of effective team working

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.