Paediatric Critical Care Network Educator

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Education and Training

• Work in partnership with others and as part of the ODN to deliver successful outcomes.
• To support the organisation’s ways of working, model its values and champion the NHS Constitution.
• Work with others to put in place methods, processes, and systems for implementing education activities, monitoring delivery, and investigating any issues. Evaluate effectiveness on completion and implement appropriate adaptations.
• Lead in the promotion, development, and the delivery of educational opportunities for clinical staff throughout the network.
• Effectively disseminate information on educational opportunities across the network.
• Work collaboratively with clinical educators and facilitators to provide educational support from orientation of new staff through to expert management and continuing professional development.
• Demonstrate the effectiveness of the education process through audit of the education programmes, evaluative feedback, and development of outcome measures.
• Annually develop, review, and update the training programme, detailing the Network’s training and education.
• Disseminate new initiatives from national guidance and benchmarking to ensure education and training programmes/courses/study days reflect these requirements.

Planning & Organisation

• Contribute to the strategic planning of the ODN, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions, potential impacts on wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.
• Contribute to the development of performance and governance strategies and the development and implementation of improvement programmes.

Leadership and Management requirements

• The post holder will be a core member of the ODN Team, attending appropriate meetings within the role and remit.
• Lead the educational development for nurses undertaking L2 PCC courses.
• Role model behaviours that reflect the ODN and Host Trusts values and are sensitive to the needs of third parties.
• Works to promote the development of others.
• Ensure that clinical leadership is central to the delivery of all network and NHS England activities.
• Foster a culture of clinical engagement, proactively seeking out different styles and methods of communicating to ensuring network educational improvement initiatives are clinically led.
• Ensure widespread multidisciplinary involvement including doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and patients where appropriate.
• Model a collaborative and influencing style of working, negotiating with others to achieve the best outcomes. Embedding this approach across the ODN.
• To be a highly motivated individual, demonstrating a transformational leadership style and adopt a flexible approach to meet the competing demands of the role.

Professional Development

• Continue to develop self and job role through clinical supervision, reflection, and self-awareness, continuing professional education and post graduate academic attainment.
• Be able to identify own learning needs and ensure own professional development is maintained by keeping up to date with practice developments.
• Participate in and network with groups relating to the speciality.
• Actively build professional links and represent the network both locally and nationally for the benefit of educational development.
• Provide professional advice, educational support and career development to nurses across the network as required.

Clinical Responsibility

• Ensure a high level of quality educational opportunities to support effective and efficient care, acting as a change agent to enhance practice where required and promote effective critical thinking and informed decision making to enhance expert care delivery.
• Contribute to an environment which fosters effective practice and encourages implementation, evaluation, and dissemination of new practices.