Digital Clinical Educator

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust; Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS foundation trust as a Digital Clinical Educator, supporting the delivery of digital education and training. This role promotes digital literacy across clinical teams, ensuring quality standards and efficient training for new nursing staff in a compassionate care environment.

Qualifications

• First level registration is essential.
• Recent education and continuing professional development required.
• Mentorship/Preceptorship qualification expected.

Responsibilities

• Lead digital clinical education and training across the organisation.
• Develop knowledge on digital systems for staff in clinical areas.
• Support implementation of digital strategy and objectives.

Skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Problem solving skills

Analytical skills

Education and Training skills

Education

First level registration

Mentorship/Preceptorship Qualification

Degree in health care (desirable)

Job description

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics.

We are committed to recruiting to our values. Leading One Culture of Care underpins our values by creating an environment, tone and behaviours across all parts of the Trust that are fundamentally rooted in compassionate care.

We are open to considering a wide range of flexible working arrangements. There are opportunities to flex the days of the week, hours and times of work and place of work including: part-time, job-share, flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home when appropriate. Please talk to us during the interview process to discuss any flexibility that you may require.

We received our Silver Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme which is helping actively promote SaBRE - Supporting Britain's Reservists and Employers. This means that we provided its statement of intent to support all Defence personnel and we welcome application to work for us. Find out more - Why Choose CHFT?

Our Future Plans

The Department of Health and Social Care has awarded capital funding to invest in local health services at both Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. This is a significant investment and an opportunity to enhance services for our populations in Calderdale and Huddersfield and West Yorkshire for generations to come. To find out more, please visit https://future.cht.nhs.uk/

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join the digital team in a brand new post of Digital Clinical Educator, you will be working closely with CNIO and the Digital Matron to support the trust achieve the digital strategy.

The role will focus on quality and the digital clinical educator will work closely with the trust QI leads to promote digital literacy across the trust.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a proactive role model who will work to support the provision of Digital clinical education across the organisation.

The post holder will lead on corporate objectives across the nursing and midwifery workforce ensuring a conducive work environment working as a change agent with a strong professional and digital focus including key Digital KPI's

Working for our organisation

CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.

Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

They will work closely across the organisation to deliver training, education and at the elbow support requirements for the staff working within the clinical areas to develop their knowledge on all the digital systems and requirements. This will include mandatory digital training requirements for staff. The post holder will have a focus on ensuring that new members of the Nursing Teams receive the appropriate digital training specific to their role.

Person specification

QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING

Essential criteria

• First level registration
• Mentorship/Preceptorship Qualification
• Evidence of recent education in relevant field
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Competent IT Skills

Desirable criteria

• Recognized teaching qualification or working towards this
• Degree in health care or working towards
• ALS Certificate
• Leadership training

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

Essential criteria

• Recent experience in the acute care setting.
• Evidence of effective leadership and developmental work
• Experience of delivering training packages
• Experience of presenting
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Demonstrate an understanding of current issues in health and social care
• Up to date professional knowledge
• Commitment to clinical audit, research and evidence-based practice

Desirable criteria

• Experience in research/audit.
• Experience and facilitation of change management
• Evidence of innovative practice

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)

Essential criteria

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines whilst paying attention to detail.
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Demonstrate commitment to CPD.
• Education and Training skills
• Self-motivating and the ability to influence others

Our vision is to provide One Culture of Care for one another in order that we can provide compassionate care for the people who use our services. We are passionate about creating a workplace where we work together to get results, encouraging colleagues to have their say, in order to co create the change we want to see. We take pride in the diversity of our workforce that's why we encourage applications from all. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants.

Please ensure your application is submitted with referees who can verify your employment/education history over the last three years and include valid email addresses for them. We will request electronic Factual Employment References from your previous employers. These references will be requested before you are issued with an unconditional offer of employment letter.

Candidates who require a Skilled Worker visa to work in the United Kingdom can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this position by assessing their circumstances against the criteria specified on the Check if you need a UK visa - GOV.UK website. We encourage all applicants to review these criteria carefully to understand their eligibility for sponsorship.

If you are appointed to a post, information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system. The Inter-Authority Transfer (IAT) process is a critical and beneficial component of ESR and following interview your previous NHS employment data, if applicable will be transferred from your current / most recent employer.

You may be required to undertake a DBS. The Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £54.40, Standard £26.40 or Basic £26.40) from your salary when you commence in post (including Internal staff). You will also be required to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £16 cost per year. This is a condition of your employment.

CHFT is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients.

If you have any questions please contact [e-mail] for assistance.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

• Digital Clinical Educator (PDF, 472.4KB)
• Digital Clinical Educator personal spec (PDF, 440.4KB)
• Job Description Appendix A (PDF, 259.2KB)