Clinical Skills and Education Lead- Mental Health | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Nottingham is seeking a registered Mental Health Nurse to lead the development and delivery of mental healthcare training programs across the Trust. The ideal candidate will have significant clinical experience and strong leadership skills. This role offers the opportunity to shape the clinical training agenda and work collaboratively with various departments within the organization. A commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is essential.

Benefits

In-house occupational health services

Employee-led staff networks

Health and Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Significant clinical experience in mental health.
• Ability to lead and advise a team of Clinical Educators.
• Experience in developing and delivering training programs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evaluate mental healthcare training programs.
• Collaborate with divisions to enhance clinical training.
• Manage and lead a team of Clinical Educators.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Clinical Education

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Job description

Are you a registered Mental Health Nurse who is passionate about training the workforce of the future, to be able to deliver the highest quality of care. If so this is the role for you. You will work with a dedicated clinical education teach to prove training across a wide range of care groups within Nottinghamshire. At Nottinghamshire Healthcare, our aspiration for our people is to be ‘diverse, inclusive and a great place to work’. Developing our clinical staff is paramount to that vision.

The post holder will be a registered healthcare professional with significant clinical experience and the ability to lead and advise a team of Clinical Educators.

They will be required to lead the Trust Mental healthcare training agenda liaising within Learning and Organisational Development, the Trust, other organisations and stakeholders such as the wider healthcare community, service users and carers etc.

Report to the Head of Clinical Education & Development and will be part of the senior Learning & Development Team.

They will line manage a team of Clinical Educators.

Lead strategically and operationally our Trustwide clinical training offer.

Ensure that a programme of mental healthcare training that is aligned to both national guidance and the strategic needs of the Trust is established, delivered and evaluated.

Contribute to ongoing development of training in partnership with other specialists.

Will be a member of relevant Mental Healthcare forums within the Trust and is expected to create and maintain positive working relationships with the clinical divisions, directorates and departments throughout the Trust.

Will build close and trusting relationships with their line reports, as well as other key portfolio leads across the People & Culture Directorate.

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment.

See attached Job description for full details.

Key responsibilities

• To be responsible for the development, delivery, review, and evaluation of the trust wide clinical training offer, including Mental healthcare training programmes across the Trust.
• Work collaboratively with Divisions, to develop a pool of expert educators to co-produce and co-deliver our clinical training offer including mental healthcare training across the Trust.
• Interpret national agendas, divisional requirements, and departmental views into the provision of clinical training provision.
• Develop blended learning approaches utilising both e-learning and virtual delivery within the mental healthcare training provision to ensure that training is accessible to all staff across the Trust.
• Where necessary to source and contract external training provision to meet the specific learning requirements of clinical areas, and link this with the appropriate funding stream.
• Use high level chairing and facilitative skills as required by the department or the organisation.
• Line manage and lead teams of staff within the department effectively and delivers objectives and performance outcomes of those teams.
• Shape our clinical training agenda through creation, review, delivery of training.
• Explore new and innovative approaches to clinical training to meet service needs and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Collate and present impact data on our clinical training offer.
• Support the leadership and delivery of induction and essential training within the Trust.
• Deputise as necessary for the Head of Learning & Development across a range of portfolios including induction & essential training.
• Produce Board papers, management and executive briefings.

This advert closes on Tuesday 30 Dec 2025.