Assistant Practice Placement Facilitator

Haringey GP Federation; South Shields; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking an Assistant Practice Placement Facilitator to join their Practice Education Team. The role involves ensuring high-quality placements for nursing and allied health students while supporting and mentoring practice supervisors. Candidates must be registered professionals with experience in learner support and education. The position offers a pro-rata salary range of £38,682 to £46,580 for part-time work (30 hours/week) and requires flexibility to travel across Trust sites.

Benefits

Access to high quality education and training

Flexible working hours

Staff benefits including Fitness Centre and childcare support

Qualifications

• Registered professional required to ensure quality in learning environments.
• Significant mentoring experience needed in healthcare settings.
• Willingness to travel across Trust sites is essential.

Responsibilities

• Support quality assurance in practice learning environments.
• Provide educational input for practice supervisors and students.
• Help manage student placements and improve learner experiences.

Skills

Mentoring

Organisational skills

Communication

Teaching

IT skills

Education

1st level registered professional (Nurse, Midwife or AHP)

Degree in health-related subject or equivalent experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Assistant Practice Placement Facilitator

The closing date is 29 January 2026

Applications for this vacancy are restricted to internal applicant only

Are you passionate about education? Do you already support Nursing, Midwifery or Allied Health Professional Students on placement? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our Practice Education Team as an Assistant Practice Placement Facilitator (PPF) within South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust (STSFT). You will help us to support the expansion of student placement capacity, whilst ensuring students are provided with high quality placements and learning opportunities across our hospital and community environments. Our PPF team are key roles within the Corporate Nursing and Quality directorate and are there to coach, guide and support student Nurses, Midwives and Allied Healthcare Professionals whilst on placement in STSFT.

We would like to encourage all applicants to make contact before applying.

Main duties of the job

The role of the Assistant Practice Placement Facilitator (PPF) within the NMAHP Education Team (Nursing, Midwifery & Allied Health Professions) is to support the team PPFs in ensuring the quality of practice learning and clinical learning environments and continuously improve the learner's experience.

The successful candidate will contribute to the quality assurance of a range of programmes of education by participation in educational audit and actively seeking feedback from students, supervisors/assessors, preceptors and service users in clinical practice.

You will be a keen advocate of continuous quality improvement and support the team to both improve learner experiences in clinical practice areas and increase our student capacity.

About us

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One Team One Trust – There are many reasons to work at our Trust. From our commitment to putting people first to our accessible services and award winning teams. We have a passion for research, innovation and tackling inequalities. We are committed to respect, fairness and civility and promote a compassionate, caring and positive culture and working environment.

We welcome all applications irrespective of peoples race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under‑represented groups. Looking after our workforce health and wellbeing is a priority for us. We also provide access to high quality education, training, career progression and support. Flexible working is supported via our Flexible Working Policy.

The Trust employs around 8,746 people and provides a range of hospital services to a local community of around 430,000 residents. We also provide a range of more specialised services outside this area. We offer our staff outstanding benefits – Fitness Centre, libraries at both hospital sites, chaplaincy support and access to a Care Co‑ordinator to help staff with childcare arrangements.

Job responsibilities

The role of the Assistant Practice Placement Facilitator (PPF) within the NMAHPEducation Team (Nursing, Midwifery & Allied Health Professions) is to ensure the quality of practice learning and clinical learning environments meet and exceed standards.

The Assistant PPF will support the quality of learning in the clinical learning environment by providing support, educational input and development activities for practice supervisors/practice assessors, preceptors and students/learners on a variety of pre‑registration, preceptorship (band 5 newly qualified practitioners) and care certificate programmes (bands 2‑4 Healthcare Assistants/Support Workers).

The Assistant PPF will work predominantly with and support the Practice Placement Facilitators (PPFs) with current and future cohorts of university‑based pre‑registration students, trainees (such as Trainee Nursing Associates) and apprentices, facilitating equitable access to clinical learning resources and environments for all learners.

They will support the practice supervisors, practice assessors/educators and preceptors by providing advice and support to enable learners to meet clinical learning objectives in practice.

They will contribute to the quality assurance of the programmes by participation in education audit and actively seeking feedback from students, supervisors/assessors, preceptors and service users.

The Assistant PPF will support the PPFs in helping to meet the responsibilities in providing high quality placements in sufficient numbers to meet the requirements of students on healthcare training programmes.

In collaboration with Higher Education Institutes, they will assist the PPF in the management of the portfolio of student placements within the Trust, help identify new placement areas and those areas where capacity may be expanded.

Contribute to ensuring the quality of existing placements by identifying areas of good practice and to offer support and guidance to students where appropriate, in relation to problems that may be highlighted in practice placement areas. Support practice educators/assessors/supervisors in clinical practice if they are having difficulties with students.

The Assistant PPF will also work with the Preceptorship and Care Certificate programme leaders when required in order to support new HCAs/Apprentices and newly qualified staff and their supervisors/preceptors in practice. They will assist with teaching and facilitation of programmes (Preceptorship and International Nurses Support and Care Certificate), when required under the direction of the Head or NMAHP Education.

The post holder will work under the direction of the Head of NMAHP Education and Lead Nurse for NMAHP Education and will be expected to use their initiative, analytical skills and judgement.

The post holder is expected to work across Trust sites; including South Tyneside and Sunderland acute and community services and Durham Treatment Centre, when required.

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• 1st level registered professional (Nurse, Midwife or AHP)
• Degree in health‑related subject, or equivalent level study/experience
• Sign off / Mentor status

Experience

• Significant experience as a Mentor, Practice Assessor/Supervisor and/or Educator
• Experienced in learner support and assessment
• Organisational skills
• Ability to communicate with staff at various levels
• Experience delivering presentations or teaching
• Experience of community and acute settings
• Experience in supporting newly registered practitioners, international nurses and new HCA/HCSWs in clinical practice.
• Experience in reviewing Preceptorship and/or Care Certificate Portfolios

Physical skills

• Willingness to travel is essential to this role – post‑holder will be expected to travel across Trust sites, as well as to other sites if needed
• IT skills to ensure databases and records are kept up to date
• Sitting at PC/desk for extended periods of concentration
• Travelling/walking to areas to provide support or perform an audit
• Ability to manage own workload/diary

Skills and Knowledge

• Experienced mentor skilled in learner support and assessment
• Organisational skills
• Teaching and assessing
• Networking with different disciplines and organisations
• IT skills – able to use Microsoft office package
• Ability to communicate with staff at various levels
• High level of personal motivation
• Must be willing to work flexible hours to meet the needs of the service
• Motivated and enthusiastic
• Willingness to learn and develop new skills relevant to the post
• Knowledge of current national educational initiatives and programmes
• Knowledge of education & training pathways for NMAHP workforce within the Trust

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.

South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a year pro rata for part time – 30 hours per week