Clinical Educator Professional Development (Emergency Department)

Transformation Unit; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Job summary

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an exceptional registered nurse to join us as a Clinical Educator in the Emergency Department at the Royal Derby Hospital, Derby. The role involves leading education and clinical mentoring within a fast-paced ED, with induction and development packages for successful candidates.

We welcome motivated nurses with formal assessor experience and a commitment to clinical excellence, teaching, and supporting learners across

Qualifications

• Evidence of post-qualification experience.
• Recent extensive clinical experience in an acute setting or knowledge of the clinical area.
• Experience mentoring and developing staff.
• Ability to apply learning and assessment strategies.
• Demonstrates leadership and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate staff development and education in ED.
• Teach, supervise and mentor in the clinical setting.
• Coordinate development activities with Learning & Education.
• Work clinically with the nursing team when required.

Skills

Post-qual exp

Mentoring staff

Learning strategies

Leadership

Education

NMC Registration

Assessor qualification

Job description

Main area Emergency Department Grade Band 6 Contract 12 months (Secondment / Fixed term and possibility of Permenant) Hours

• Full time
• Part time

36.5 hours per week Job ref 320-MED-2023

Employer University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Derby Hospital Town Derby Salary £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata pa Salary period Yearly Closing 08/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 22/10/2026

Clinical Educator Professional Development (Emergency Department)

Band 6

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

With over 14,000 members of staff you can expect huge variety and new opportunities every day! Our staff go above and beyond and take pride in caring for our patients.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is fully committed to promoting inclusion, equality, diversity and human rights in employment and delivery of its services. The Trust is committed to providing an environment where all employees, patients, carers and visitors experience equality of opportunity by means of understanding and appreciating the value of diversity.

As a Trust we promote an inclusive environment and welcome applications from a diverse pool of talent and backgrounds. All individuals are valued and given every opportunity to succeed based on merit.

The Trust actively encourages applications from members of our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. These groups are under-represented in our organisation, and it’s important to us that our workforce reflects the diversity of our communities as much as possible.

Armed Forces and Disability Confident guaranteed interview scheme

To further support the pledges in the Armed Forces Covenant and to make a positive contribution to support ex-armed forces personnel (veterans) make the transition to civilian life, the Trust has introduced a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for veterans who meets the essential criteria set out in the person specification, to help them overcome barriers to find civilian employment. The scheme will operate for all external recruitment.

The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer and committed to both employing and retaining people with disabilities. This commitment is to guarantee an interview for any candidate that has disclosed a disability under the Equality Act 2010 and who meets the essential criteria set out in the person specification. Reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 will be considered upon request.

if you are blind or visually impaired and require application material in an alternative format- such as Braille, large print, audio or accessible electronic formats oryou require support/adjustments with your application please contact the recruitment team on 01332 788466

The Trust is proud to be a signatory of the Care Leavers Covenant and is committed to supporting care-experienced people into employment.

Applicants who identify as a care leaver and who meet the essential criteria for the role, as detailed in the person specification, will be guaranteed an interview.

If you wish to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this within your application.

Join us and help make a real difference to our Trust.

Here’s more about the role and what we’re looking for;

Job overview

We are looking for an exceptional registered nurse to join us as a Clinical Educator working in ED at the Royal Derby Hospital.

The ED education team takes responsibility for and is accountable for the delegated professional, practice development and education within the nursing team .

If you are passionate about clinical education and have a desire to shape and develop the workforce, then this is your ideal role. An induction and development package will be given to the successful candidate.

We welcome applications from motivated and dedicated Registered Nurses with an interest in education and preceptorship and who show evidence of high standards of practice for supporting safe & professional patient care in the emergency setting. We particularly welcome applications from individuals who have recent clinical experience within an acute hospital setting and experience of teaching & supporting various levels of learners.

If you are considering applying for an internal secondment, pleaseensureyou have discussed this with your line manager and obtained their supportprior to submitting your application.

Please be aware that there isnoguarantee that you will be released from your substantive post, so you should seek approvalbefore applying as you are applying or aSecondment.

If you have any questions or require further guidance, please contact the Recruitment Team.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidates will work in the Emergency department as part of the Clinical Education Team, and will be joint line managed by our Senior Clinical Educator and senior sister team in ED.

It is preferable that applicants have evidence that they are capable of working in a fast paced, busy acute environment and have demonstrable experience in teaching, mentoring and educating others.

They will be responsible for facilitating new and existing staff members in becoming competent and capable practitioners by teaching, supervising and mentoring in the clinical setting.

You will work independently and collaboratively in the coordination and delivery of development activities, mandatory, essential to role and specialist clinical training, collaborating with the dynamic wider teams in Learning & Education and the Senior Clinical Educator for ED.

There is an expectation that you will work clinically within the Registered Nursing team when required.

Interview date: 22nd October 2026

Working for our organisation

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts about our Trust:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

UHDB is committed to fair and transparent recruitment. We welcome authentic applications that reflect your own skills, experience and motivations for the role. While we understand that candidates may use AI tools for grammar, formatting or accessibility purposes, applications that appear to be substantially AI‑generated may be subject to additional review. If this applies to your submission, we will let you know and may ask for clarification. Please ensure your application accurately represents your experience and is written in your own words.

Following the recent update on UK immigration policy for those on a Health and Care Visa or Skilled Worker Visa, please click on the link to check your eligibility before applying for this post as we may be unable to provide sponsorship Skilled worker: Health and Care Visa | NHS Employers

Important visa information: Due to UK Home Office immigration rule changes effective from 22 July 2025, applicants sponsored under Occupation Code 6131 (Nursing Auxiliaries and Assistants) may not be eligible to bring dependants under the Skilled Worker route if their Certificate of Sponsorship is issued on or after this date. Applicants are responsible for understanding how these rules apply to their individual circumstances. The Trust cannot provide immigration advice. Further information is available on the Skilled Worker visa: Your partner and children - GOV.UK

Your application (for shortlisting purposes) is assessed based on the Person Specification in the job advert (below).

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Person specification

Education, Training and Qualifications

• NMC Registration
• Holds an appropriate assessor qualification

Skills and Experience

• Evidence of post qualification experience
• Evidence of recent extensive clinical experience in an acute setting or specific knowledge of the clinical area
• Experience of mentoring and developing staff
• Describe a time you assisted in the clinical assessment of a team member and how this impacted their future practice
• Demonstrates an understanding of learning and assessment strategies
• Displays effective leadership

Planning and Organisational Skills

• Uses own initiative within established procedures, taking responsibility for own actions
• Manages own workload, prioritising as necessary

Communication and Interpersonal Skills

• Demonstrates highly developed communication skills to support colleagues/learners in a learning environment

Physical Skills

• Ability to physically work within the clinical areas, standing for prolonged periods of time where necessary to provide training and support to individuals including clinical care

Our Trust aims to provide the highest quality care to patients within Derbyshire and South East Staffordshire and we want the very best people to work with us.

At UHDB , we offer different ways to work flexibly to each and every one of our colleagues, many of whom already work flexibly at all sites of the Trust.

For our roles we are open to discussing the possibility of part-time/ reduced hours/ compressed hours/ flexible start and finish times/ fixed/flexible shifts/annualised hours/ term time hours/ hybrid working – working partly in the trust/partly at home.

Why don’t you talk to us at interview about the flexibility you would like to explore and what it means to you, and we will discuss what’s possible for the job and team, and the opportunities we might be able to create together.

We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise to work with you to look at all the available options.

Most of our posts are subject to a DBS check, however having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you from obtaining a position. Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

All correspondence relating to your application will be sent to you via our trac.system account. Please ensure that you regularly check your emails; this includes junk/spam, as your security settings may not recognise the sender.

Anyone from outside of the UK (excluding from the Republic of Ireland) will need permission from UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) to work in the UK and may also need entry clearance before travelling here.

UKVI is responsible for managing migration. To obtain a visa or entry clearance, you will need to meet certain requirements and demonstrate you have the right the work in the UK via:

• the points-based immigration system
• the EU settlement scheme
• eVisa

During the course of its employment activities, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust collects, stores and processes personal information about prospective, current and former staff.

Our Privacy Notice includes applicants, employees (and former employees), workers (including agency, casual, honorary and contracted staff), volunteers, trainees and those carrying out work experience – please refer to our Privacy Notice available on our Trust website: https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/information-governance

UHDB is committed to fair and transparent recruitment. We welcome authentic applications that reflect your own skills, experience and motivations for the role. While we understand that candidates may use AI tools for grammar, formatting or accessibility purposes, applications that appear to be substantially AI‑generated may be subject to additional review. If this applies to your submission, we will let you know and may ask for clarification. Please ensure your application accurately represents your experience and is written in your own words.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.