Clinical Skills Specialist

This post is open to NHS Lanarkshire employees only.  

The Role

This is an new, exciting secondment opportunity for a Band 7 Registered Nurse.  The opportunity is offered for one person for 9.5 hrs per week for a twelve-month period (April 2024 April 2025).

The successful practitioner will work as part of the clinical skills team in the design, development and delivery of Simulation Based Education. The aim of the opportunity is to support the practitioner in developing personal skills as a simulation based educator. The area of work is primarily medical education with strong elements of interprofessional learning.

As a seconded clinical skills specialist you will be based at the Medical Education Training Centre, Kirklands Hospital.  The secondment will include access to learning opportunities to aid development as a simulation based educator aligned to the CSMEN national faculty development structure.

The skills, knowledge and experience required for this secondment:

• Registered nurse with valid NMC registration.
• Enthusiastic, knowledgeable and skilful practitioner.
• Experience in an acute care environment with advanced knowledge of emergency patient assessment and advanced resuscitation skills.
• Educated to / operating at Masters level.
• Completed or commenced further learning/development in the last 3 years.

• Excellent team working skills with the ability to work autonomously.

• Role modelling positive professional attitudes and behaviours in all areas of practice.
• The ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of stakeholders.

• Willingness to further develop teaching, assessment and facilitation of learning skills.
• Contribute to the development of education programmes based on identified learning needs.

• Be a car driver with access to a car as travel is a pivotal part of the role across NHS Lanarkshire.
• Have identified to your line manager/KSF Reviewer a development aspiration in relation to education.
• Have agreement in place from your local line manager that if you are successful you are able to be released to undertake the role.

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

Specific experience and educational requirements include:-

• Registered Nurse or Healthcare Professional with valid NMC / HCPC or equivalent Registration
• Post graduate expertise within speciality / area of practice that demonstrates the required breadth of knowledge required to lead safely, effectively and efficiently.
• Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the speciality / area of practice
• Educated to or operating at masters level 
• Evidence of effective clinical leadership
• Evidence of personal contribution and leading of service redesign projects 
• Excellent team working skills, with ability to work on own initiative 
• Advanced knowledge in critical care life science emergency assessment and advanced resuscitation skills
• An interest in simulation
• A certificate in simulation facilitation (desirable)
• Computer literate 
• Commitment to own personal experiential and academic development

It would be great if you also have

• Certificate in Simulation Facilitation

• Pg Certificate in Education

• Extensive Post Registration experience

• Expert practice in Acute care environment e.g. CCU / HDU / ITU 

• Experience of teaching in a clinical and simulated environment

• Experience in project management

• Experience of conflict management and resolution

• Experience of programme planning 

• ALS Instructor

• Knowledge of and ability to teach  a wide range of clinical skills

• Presentation skills

• Ability to develop presentations using PowerPoint

• Excellent communication skills with ability to network communicate with staff across all disciplines at local and national levels

• Good organisational / planning skills

• Flexible to meet the needs of the Service

Contract type

Fixed Term or Secondment for 1 year

Part Time

9.5 hours

Please note this is a part time post and the salary for this position will be pro-rata.

Please note this is a fixed term post for 1 year. 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

This role will be based in Medical Education within Kirklands

Looking to find out more?

If youre looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Catherine Paton on Catherine.Paton@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Mackenzie Logan, Recruitment Administrator on Mackenzie.Logan@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 Lanarkshires 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 youre looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.