About this role
Job summary We're looking for an inspiring and forward-thinking leader to head our Clinical Practice Facilitator (CPF) team within the Medical Division (excluding the Emergency Department). This is an exciting opportunity to shape the educational culture of a large, dynamic service area and play a key role in developing the workforce of the future. What you will be doing:
Lead and support the CPF team, ensuring high-quality educational support is embedded throughout the Medical Division.
Oversee a comprehensive induction programme for all new starters--both registered and unregistered--ensuring everyone is safely, effectively, and confidently welcomed into the Medical environment.
Set the strategic vision for education within Medicine, aligning priorities with divisional and Trust objectives, and regularly presenting progress and outcomes at senior leadership forums.
Ensure accurate training and competency records are maintained, promoting full compliance with Trust-mandated training and supporting staff to achieve their required competencies.
Deliver specific clinical education, ensuring staff have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to provide safe, evidence-based patient care.
Contribute to clinical audit and quality improvement activity, identifying training needs, proposing solutions, and helping shape the ongoing development of the surgical workforce.
Main duties of the job
Coordinate education, training, and practice-development activity across the Medical Division.
Ensure staff achieve required competencies and have access to effective learning, CPD, high-quality teaching, research opportunities, and professional support.
Collaborate with universities, Trust colleagues, and external education providers to design and deliver programmes that reflect local, regional, and national standards.
Support development of guidelines, leading audit activity, research, and innovation in clinical education.
Manage educational records and data, contributing to governance processes and ensuring policies remain current and evidence-based.
Drive improvement in communication and teamwork, strengthening relationships and supporting effective service delivery across surgical specialties.
This is a pivotal role for someone passionate about developing others, enhancing patient care through education, and ensuring the Medical Division remains a vibrant, supportive, and high-performing learning environment.
About us
We are proud to be part of BSW Hospitals Group - a formal partnership between the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. With a combined workforce of over 17, 600 colleagues, and budget of 1.6 billion the Group is united by a common purpose to deliver the best possible care to over 1 million people.
We are creating a health and care system that works with the people we care for, reducing the differences people currently face in access, experience and outcomes, improving the experience of our colleagues and tackling shared challenges like sustainability and finances. Every improvement we make across our Group will be guided by what creates the greatest benefit for our colleagues, our patients, our communities and our partners.
By working together, we make a real difference for our patients, each other, and our community. Every role matters in delivering the exceptional, person-centred care we're proud of.
We're committed to a compassionate, inclusive culture where kindness is championed, differences are valued, and diversity makes us stronger.
We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential. We prioritise staff wellbeing - and yes, we even have a pool!
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Job description Job responsibilities
Provide visible leadership in the Medicial Division, promoting high standards, continuous improvement and evidence based practice. Lead and support the Band 6 Practice Education Facilitators, ensuring effective supervision, performance management and professional development. Plan, deliver and evaluate education, training and competency based development fornursing staff. Work collaboratively with the senior nursing team and education partners to maintain safe, high quality patient care and support all learners. Oversee CPD, audit, research engagement and the development, review and implementation of evidence based guidelines and service improvements. Manage educational data and contribute to governance, risk management, incident learning and strategic workforce planning.
Person Specification
Experience of working in an Acute Medicial setting Essential
Evidence of working in a Medical setting
Desirable
Evidence of working in a variety of medical specialities
Professional Registration Essential
Hold a valid professional registration
Teaching and assessing qualification in clincal practice Essential
Teaching and assessing clinical practice qualification
Desirable
Higher level qualification in teaching and assessing clinical practice
Disclosure and Barring Service Check 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
Address Royal United Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Combe Park
Bath
BA1 3NG
Employer's website https://www.ruh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)