Practice Educator - Palliative Care

NHS Scotland

  • Scotland
  • £41,608-50,702 per year
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 5 days ago
Description:OUR VALUES IN ACTIONCare and Compassion Quality and Teamwork Dignity and Respect Openness, honesty and responsibilityDepartment of Clinical and Professional DevelopmentPractice Educator Palliative care:37 hours per week2 year fixed termAn exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated registered nurse to join the Department of Clinical and Professional Development, working collaboratively across Scottish Borders Health and Social Care Partnership.
  • Are you someone who is experienced in delivering effective judgements and decisions for people with palliative care needs and care around dying?
  • Are you someone who strives to make a difference in a persons care experience?
  • Do you have excellent communication, leadership and organisational skills?
This post will provide and develop palliative care, and care around dying education to health and social care staff in the Scottish Borders. This will include maintaining a presence in various care environments by delivering direct patient care alongside colleagues and role model and facilitate excellent practice in a coaching role. This will include discussions with colleagues, the assessment and care delivery process incorporating current practice, evidence base, future trends and developments in care, timeliness of interventions and related risks. The post holder will be given a clinical home within the specialist palliative care unit to ensure their own professional practice is maintained.The successful candidate will need to demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning, be a forward-thinking Registered Nurse, with a teaching qualification or have experience in both formal and informal teaching subjects relating to palliative care. The successful Educator will have experience of planning and delivering learning.If you are a confident, enthusiastic and highly motivated individual who shares our desire to promote evidencebased practice, develop, and maintain high standards of quality care that is right for each person, we would like to hear from you.For informal enquiries please contact:Michelle Scott, Palliative Care Consultant NurseMichelle OReilly, Chief Nurse Clinical and Professional DevelopmentApplicants will be asked to give a 10 minute presentation at interview.Due to legislative changes from 1 April 2025, this post may require a different level of criminal records check done than is currently the case. If the post is assessed as a 'regulated role', your appointment will be subject to joining the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. If there is any change to what is currently required, this will be confirmed by either the Hiring Manager or the Recruitment Team. For more details on these changes please visit: .To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website .For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or going rate. Further information on these criteria can be found .It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsoredBEFORE submitting your application form***PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early***NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

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