Job summary
- Main area
- Education
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 166-W&OD-6980345
- Employer
- Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chesterfield Royal Hospital
- Town
- Chesterfield
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Practice Development Facilitator
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Registered Nurse to join the Practice Development Team.
This role facilitates creating quality inter-professional learning environments for all learners and healthcare staff in the workplace, delivering point of care learning and development opportunities.
This role also supports creating a life-long learning culture, promoting continuous professional development.
The post-holder must hold a professional registration and have excellent communication skills, together with a wide breadth of clinical experience.
Main duties of the job
This will enable you to enhance your interest of education, staff development and support. The role involves developing and delivering group and individual training for health professionals who have been registered for more than a year.
You will gain experience in career conversations, clinical supervision and advising staff on their continuing professional development. We provide education through a variety of settings from classroom to in situ simulations. We provide support around revalidation , clinical skills refreshers and Trust audits.
The team receive requests from a range of clinical departments to help them create and deliver training to meet their needs, so you need to be innovative and work with other team members. There are professional development opportunities for you too - education, supporting improvements, professional practice and leadership.
Working for our organisation
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a well performing Foundation Trust serving a population of around 441,000 across the Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, North Amber Valley, High Peak and North East Derbyshire districts. With a workforce of around 3,800 staff and is rated “Good” by the CQC .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that are required.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Healthcare Professional Qualification
- Teaching & Assessing Qualification NMC Registered
Desirable criteria
- Degree in education
- Master’s degree
- NVQ Assessor
- Basic Life Support Trainer
- Manual Handling Trainer
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven experience as a healthcare professional
- Experience in an acute clinical environment
- Experience in training, assessing, staff development
Desirable criteria
- Experience at Band 6 as a healthcare professional
- 2 years’ experience
- Research and audit
- University teaching Clinical skills teaching
Skills
Essential criteria
- Communication skills
- Presentation Skills
- Teaching Skills
- Assessment skills
- Problem solving, negotiating & evaluation skills
- IT Literate
Desirable criteria
- Leadership Skills
- Change Management experience
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ryan Barnett
- Job title
- Practice Development Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01246 513270
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