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The Role
The Allied Health Professions(AHP) Practice Education Lead will support and facilitate the development of the workplace as a sustainable quality learning environment for all Allied Health Professional staff (Registered AHPs, pre-registration students, support workers and staff “returning to practice”) working across all care settings within Health Board area:
- Responsibility for designing and delivering training and development programmes as a major job responsibility
- To enhance the quality of learning opportunities available to the AHP workforce.
- To develop local opportunities with our partners for inter professional learning within the Health Board area
- To make a significant contribution supporting the identified education needs of AHP workforce within the workplace
- To increase the capacity of the Health Board area and other sectors to provide learning opportunities for pre-registration AHP students.
The Practice Education Lead role is designed to contribute to the practice learning environment by providing support, building an infrastructure, contributing to educational input and development activities for all AHP staff working within the Health Board area:
- Registered and returning to practice staff
- Support workers
- AHP pre and post registration students (undergraduate or MSc students)
The role is part of a national programme to enhance the quality of the practice learning environment and experience and positively contribute to the future Allied Health Professional workforce in Scotland
The purpose of this role is therefore to:
- increase the number and range of education activities in which the AHP workforce participate
- maximise the number of AHP practice educators to enable flexibility and quality within all practice areas
- ensure that the learning experience is of the highest quality and meets the individual’s learning needs
- ensure support mechanisms are in place for all AHP staff to enable them to engage in CPD / educational programmes which ultimately lead to practice development and improved services for service users and carers.
NHS Lanarkshire
Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.
We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.
What we'll need you to bring
- Qualified to Masters Degree level or equivalent
- Registration with Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) as one of the ten AHP professional groups
- Evidence of CPD relevant to AHP Practice Education
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary setting
- Demonstrates experience of practice placements and Practice Education issues
- Ability to collate, analyse and make informed judgements on information sets
- Experience in carrying out research and audit
- High level written, verbal and presentation skills
- Experience in workshop, project and change management
- Demonstrates commitment to team leadership
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills
- Demonstrates and understands the specialities within the team, their perspectives and issues
- IM&T skills
- Able to work independently and in a self directed manner within the remit and timescales of the project
Contract type
Fixed Term or Secondment until 31/01/2025
Part Time
30 hours
Please note this is a part time post and the salary for this position will be pro-rata.
IF FIXED TERM / SECONDMENT: Please note this is a fixed term post until 31/01/2025. Where a post only has temporary funding and an existing member of NHS Lanarkshire staff wishes to apply, this will be treated as a secondment. The employee MUST already have written agreement from their line manager to be released on a secondment before applying for the post.
Location and Working Pattern
This role will be based in the Practice Development Centre within Beckford Street
The working pattern for this role Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
Looking to find out more?
If you’re looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you!
Please contact Becky Moran Senior Practitioner Practice Education on email: Becky.moran@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Marion Bisset, Recruitment Administrator on marion.bisset@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk (Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)
Why NHS Lanarkshire?
Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.
Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:
A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
Occupational health services
Employee Counselling services
Work-life Balance policies and procedures
NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.
Further Information
For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.
Additional Information for Applicants
- Posts close at midnight on the indicated date
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In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
We anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the advert once sufficient applications are received. Please complete and submit your application early.
*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.
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