Clinical Training Facilitator

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in East Midlands is seeking a Clinical Training Facilitator to improve staff competency through clinical training. The role involves designing training content, delivering national mandated training, and ensuring compliance with established guidelines. The ideal candidate must have a relevant healthcare qualification and demonstrate strong expertise in emergency training for healthcare staff. This position is essential for enhancing patient care and supporting staff in their professional development.

Qualifications

• Current registration with NMC, or HCPC in an appropriate discipline (e.g. nurse, paramedic, ODP).
• Holds a minimum of an Immediate Life Support Course Provider qualification from the Resuscitation Council UK.
• Understanding of the NHS and key workforce challenges.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a range of clinical learning and development interventions.
• Work with the Learning and Development and Professional Practice Education and Training teams.
• Design bespoke course content and evaluate its effectiveness.

Skills

Best practice advice in managing a cardiac arrest

Anaphylaxis training

Assessment and monitoring of a deteriorating patient

Manual handling expertise

Back care advice

Education

Immediate Life Support Course Provider qualification

NMC or HCPC registration

Job description

Overview

Go back Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Clinical Training Facilitator

The closing date is 08 October 2025

Responsibilities

The Clinical Training Facilitator role is to deliver a range of clinical learning and development interventions across the Secured and Specialist Services Care Delivery Pathway, helping to improve staff capability and compliance with mandatory and role specific training requirements. The post holder will work as part of the turnaround team, working with the Learning and Development and Professional Practice Education and Training (PPET) team to ensure the capability and quality of staff remains high, and colleagues remain up to date with their skills and competencies.

The post holder is required to work autonomously and alongside the Manual Handling, Resuscitation and Clinical Training Teams. They will deliver nationally mandated training that aligns with the Core Skills Training Framework and national guidelines such as Resus Council UK. For role essential training they will use Trust specific content or have the responsibility for designing bespoke course content, its delivery, evaluating its effectiveness and achieving, attaining and maintaining training compliance. They will work closely with the Manual Handling, Resuscitation and clinical skills trainers to ensure consistency in training outcomes and the safety of equipment and its use by staff through audit.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Experience

• Current registration with NMC, or HCPC in an appropriate discipline (e.g. nurse, paramedic, ODP).
• Holds a minimum of an Immediate Life Support Course Provider qualification from the Resuscitation Council UK
• Understanding of the NHS and key workforce challenges

Skills and Abilities

• Able to provide specialized, best practice advice in relation to managing a cardiac arrest, anaphylaxis, assessment and monitoring of a deteriorating patient, manual handling, advice on back care and other bespoke training.

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.

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust