Garden Route: Clinical Facilitator – Locum (Garden Route) posted by SD Recruitment (Pty) Ltd

About the Role

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Clinical Facilitator to join our team in Garden Route. As a Locum, you will provide essential clinical assessment, vetting, induction, orientation, and follow-up evaluation services for our client clinical facilities and staff. With your expertise, we aim to enhance the quality of care and services delivered to clients. If you are passionate about nursing practice and have excellent facilitation skills, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide, administer, and facilitate clinical assessment, vetting, induction, orientation, and follow-up evaluation services for all allocated client clinical facilities and clinical staff.
• Coordinate, facilitate, and support the work of external contracted clinical facilitators.
• Conduct relevant administrative activities related to all clinical facilitation activities.
• Establish and maintain positive client and stakeholder relationships.
• Ensure the growth of the business through the quality of services offered.
• Adhere to all quality and safety standards required in nursing practice and within clinical settings.
• Assist with reviewing, updating, and implementing relevant policies and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with all statutory requirements related to nursing practice.
• Assist and provide relevant support to the recruitment and compliance teams with processing nursing candidate registration applications.
• Conduct interviews with new nursing candidates where required.
• Investigate and report on all reported incidents involving our clinical staff placed at our client facilities.
• Keep abreast of Nursing Industry movements and changes, including Qualifications and Standards which impact nursing practice.
• Ensure adherence to all client facilities policies and procedures related to nursing practice.
• Identify and mitigate risks related to clinical facilitation and nursing practice at client facilities.
• Assist with the designing, developing, and distribution of course material, lesson plans, and curricula for facilitation and other teaching interventions.
• Conduct and facilitate vetting, assessment, induction, on-site orientation, and on-site follow-up evaluation of each nursing candidate.
• Provide one-on-one support, training, and mentoring of nurses in a clinical setting.
• Provide ongoing encouragement, guidance, and support to nurses in continuing professional development.
• Perform other training and facilitation functions as needed.
• Conduct, administer, and assess formative and summative assessments of the candidates as required.
• Report on each candidate’s assessment outcomes.
• Compile and provide relevant reports related to all clinical facilitation activities, i.e., vetting, assessment, induction, on-site orientation, on-site follow-up evaluation, and clinical incidents for record keeping and processing.
• Ensure that all reports are saved in the candidates’ profile on placement partner and any other information management platform used by the organization.
• Regularly conduct client site visits and engage with client representatives to obtain feedback regarding SD Recruitment’s performance and its staff’s performance.
• All reports (including induction reports/orientation reports/incident management reports/follow-up reports/client visit reports) to be supplied to the compliance team to upload onto the candidate’s profile on placement partners or any other required platform.

Requirements

• Relevant Diploma/Degree in Nursing.
• Registration with SANC as a professional nurse.
• Minimum 2-5 years’ experience in Clinical Facilitation/Training of Nurses.
• Minimum 3-5 years working experience as a registered nurse in a clinical setting.
• Knowledge of scope of practice of all nursing categories as well as the regulations of SANC.
• Recommended: Nursing Education and/or assessor qualifications.

Qualifications

• Relevant Diploma/Degree in Nursing.
• Registration with SANC as a professional nurse.
• Minimum 3-5 years working experience as a registered nurse in a clinical setting.
• Knowledge of scope of practice of all nursing categories as well as the regulations of SANC.
• Recommended: Nursing Education and/or assessor qualifications.

Salary & Benefits

• Salary details will be discussed during the interview process.