Clinical Educator

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional NHS healthcare provider based in King's Lynn is seeking a Clinical Educator to deliver the Preceptorship Academy and support non-medical learners. This full-time role involves providing training, supervision, and fostering a culture of lifelong learning in a clinical setting. The ideal candidate will have registered nurse qualifications, postgraduate education experience, and strong interpersonal skills. This position offers a salary between £38,682 to £46,580 per year and is a permanent contract.

Qualifications

• Broad range of post‑registration clinical experience in an acute hospital setting.
• Significant experience supervising and assessing NMC/HCPC learners in practice.
• Experience of teaching and assessing a range of learners in the practice setting.

Responsibilities

• Model high professional standards of care and promote a culture of learning.
• Provide support to learners to achieve their objectives.
• Deliver teaching sessions on a variety of clinical programmes.

Skills

Demonstrates NHS values and behaviours

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Ability to work autonomously

Calm attitude under pressure

Education

Registered Nurse on NMC register or clinical professional registered with HCPC

Degree in a relevant field

Postgraduate certificate in education or equivalent

Supervisor and assessor training or equivalent

Job description

Closing date: 02 December 2025

Clinical Educator

This is a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate to join the Education Faculty. The Clinical Educator will deliver the Preceptorship Academy and RNA Competency Framework.

As a Clinical Educator, you will support the quality of the clinical learning environment for non‑medical learners (nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals) by providing support, educational input and development activities for staff, supervisors, assessors and learners within pre‑registration programmes. You will encourage the development of a learning culture where both education and lifelong learning are seen as integral to clinical practice and will positively contribute to the development of a workforce fit for purpose.

Existing Trust employees are welcome to apply as a secondment, provided they have agreement from their current line manager before they apply.

Previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

As a clinical educator you will be expected to:

• Model high professional standards of care and promote a culture of learning, to provide professional and clinical practice training.
• Be a visible practice presence in the clinical learning environments within the urgent care settings, providing support to learners to enable them to achieve their learning objectives.
• Provide support to those assessing and supervising staff, students and learners on a range of programmes.
• Assist supervisors, assessors, practice educators and departmental managers to facilitate the integration of theory and practice within the clinical environment for a variety of learners.
• Maintain accurate records of training, assessment and support provided, and provide reports as requested.
• Assist staff with access to supervisor and educator training.
• Deliver teaching sessions on a variety of clinical programmes.
• Support trust‑wide clinical training needs.
• Provide opportunities for professional development.

About us

There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We’re working on a once‑in‑a‑generation opportunity to build a new state‑of‑the‑art hospital and we are also carrying out one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken. Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper‑based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined‑up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond. At the QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community‑based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire. We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships. We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approximately 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award‑winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome. We love working here and think you will too.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information about the job role.

Person Specification

Qualifications/training and professional development

• Registered Nurse on the appropriate part of the NMC register or clinical professional registered with the HCPC.
• Supervisor and assessor training or equivalent.
• Degree in a relevant field.
• Postgraduate certificate in education or equivalent.
• To undertake MSc in Education/Research.

Experience

• Broad range of post‑registration clinical experience in an acute hospital setting.
• Significant experience of supervising and assessing NMC/HCPC learners in practice.
• Experience of teaching, supervising and assessing a range of learners in the practice setting.
• Knowledge of different methods/styles for teaching and learning, including the use of simulation.
• Current clinical credibility at senior level.
• Effective implementation of research and audit findings.

Skills, abilities, and knowledge

• Demonstrates NHS values and behaviours.
• Confident and calm attitude with an ability to work under pressure.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills enabling communication honestly, appropriately and at the right time with people at all levels.
• Ability to work autonomously setting own targets and measuring performance against these targets.

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.

Address

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a year pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full‑time

Reference number

426‑042‑25CR

Job locations

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust