Clinical Educator (XR06)

Leeds Teaching Hospitals; Leeds; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK seeks a Band 6 Clinical Educator to enhance education and training within the Children's Professional Development Team at Leeds Children's Hospital. This role focuses on overseeing professional development, supporting clinical staff in their education, and ensuring quality assurance in educational delivery. The ideal candidate will have experience in Paediatric Nursing, strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to motivate others. A registered nurse qualification is required, along with leadership expertise.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Paediatric Nursing.
• Ability to design, deliver and evaluate teaching sessions.
• Experience with audit and governance.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate education and training for nursing staff.
• Support assessment of clinical learning environments.
• Promote interdisciplinary collaboration.

Skills

Task prioritisation and workload management

Ability to lead educational initiatives

Coaching and mentoring skills

Competent with online learning and IT skills

Ability to deliver constructive feedback

Professionalism

Proactiveness

Education

Registered Nurse

Practice Assessor (or equivalent)

PGCert Clinical Education (or working towards)

Job description

Anexciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Clinical Educator within theChildrens Professional Development Team within the Paediatric EducationCentre for a substantive post. The focus of this role will be driving qualityand service improvement within the Leeds Childrens Hospital (LCH) througheducation, mandatory training, priority training and professional developmenteducation. The applicant should possess excellent organisational skills andbe highly motivated with the ability to motivate and inspire others throughthe creation of an innovative culture of education and the ability to developand implement strategy to achieve this. Applicants must be able todemonstrate excellent interpersonal skills and be able to establish effectivelinks with the wider Multidisciplinary Team (MDT).

Thesuccessful applicant must possess a recognised teaching/assessmentqualification and significant experience of working clinically in LCH, havingan understanding of how the service runs.

Experiencein education and teaching is desirable. The candidate will have theopportunity to bring their own ideas to improve education and staffdevelopment across LCH.

Expected ShortlistingDate

02/01/2026

Planned InterviewDate

12/01/2026

Main duties of the job

Thepost holder would be responsible for overseeing and facilitating inductiontraining and annual update training for new starters and existing staffincluding all Registered Nurses, Registered Nursing Associates andNon-Registered clinical facing staff.You will be responsible for providing quality assurance of teachingcontent, competency packages and online learning. The post holder will berequired to keep an audit trail of training provided across LCH.

Additionalaspects of the role will include working with the Childrens ProfessionalDevelopment Lead and Quality Practitioners in responding to clinical audits,incidents, service improvement to ensure patient and staff safety. This postholder will need to be proactive and motivated to drive change within thewider MDT. The post holder will workwith the childrens education teams across LCH to instigate further trainingand education required for existing staff through clinical skills training.

About us

TheLeeds Childrens Hospital is one the UKs largest specialist childrenshospitals that provides acute tertiary services for children and young peopleacross the Yorkshire and Humber region. We host 27 medical and surgicalspecialties across our 16 inpatient wards in addition to our PaediatricCritical Care Service, Childrens Medical and Surgical Day Case Unit,Childrens Assessment Unit and Childrens Outpatient Department. We are aspecialist regional centre for liver and renal transplantation, complex childrenscancer treatment, neurosurgery, and congenital cardiac surgery.

LeedsTeaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk'members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job advertsare subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or removeadverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in theshortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while thisprocess is completed, and contact the named contact if you have anyquestions.

Job responsibilities

TheJobholder will play an essential role supporting Nursing and Midwiferyeducation by facilitating education, training and practice development withinLeeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Thejob holder will facilitate the development of clinical staff both registeredand unregistered.

Thejob holder will support the assessment of the quality of clinical and otherpractice learning environments, and implement interventions for improvement.The job holder will support practice assessors/supervisors and clinicalprofessional development for preceptorship.

Thejob holder will support the development of interdisciplinary and wholeservice working. As a role model theywill promote the sharing of good practice and delivery of high quality,effective and efficient care.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse
• Practice Assessor (or equivalent)
• Leadership and Management
• Professional Nurse Advocate
• Leeds Improvement Method/Project Management
• PGCert Clinical Education (or working towards/willingness to work towards)

Experience

• Working in Paediatric Nursing
• Working with a wide range of professionals including medical, nursing and management colleagues
• Audit and Governance
• Ability to design, deliver and evaluate teaching sessions
• Ability to assess competence using recognised frameworks

Skills & behaviours

• Task prioritisation and workload management
• Ability to lead educational initiatives, projects or programmes
• Coaching, mentoring, and supportive leadership skills
• Competent with online learning resource and IT skills
• Ability to deliver feedback sensitively and constructively
• Accountable
• Proactive
• Professionalism

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.

Children's Professional Development Lead