Practice Educator - Community Falls

As Falls Practice Educator, you will deliver high-quality falls prevention education, training and workforce development programmes across community services. You will work with community nursing, therapy, urgent care and multidisciplinary teams to build confidence and competence in falls assessment, prevention and management, supporting the implementation of our Community Falls Transformation Programme.

With the wider specialist team you will co-design and deliver engaging learning opportunities, develop competency frameworks, support clinical supervision and provide specialist advice to staff. Through joint working, and mentoring, you will help embed evidence-based practice, improve consistency of care and support better outcomes for patients at risk of falls.

We're looking for a motivated and enthusiastic registered healthcare professional with experience in falls prevention and a passion for education, quality improvement and service development. You will be an excellent communicator with strong organisational skills, the ability to influence and inspire others, and ideally will have experience of delivering training to healthcare professionals. The successful candidate will be self-motivated, adaptable and able to build effective relationships across a wide range of teams and services. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape a more equitable and sustainable approach to falls prevention across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight while making a real difference to patient care.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

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