Neonatal Clinical Nurse Educator (NHS AfC: Band 7) - AHP and NMC registrants - Calderdale and H[...]

Calderdale and Huddersfield Solutions Ltd; West Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust seeks an experienced Neonatal nurse passionate about education and service development. The role involves supporting clinical education and ensuring high-quality patient care within the Neonatal Unit as part of a dynamic team.

Qualifications

• Qualified in specialty and healthcare professional qualification required.
• Experience in practice education and supporting learners needed.
• Evidence of continued development and mentoring experience.

Responsibilities

• Support healthcare practitioners to develop clinical patient safety knowledge.
• Act as a clinical expert and role model for staff education.
• Conduct assessment and evaluation of clinical education impact.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Teaching skills

Teamwork

Education

Healthcare professional qualification

Recognised teaching qualification

Degree Qualification

Job description

Employer Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS TRust Cross-Site Town Huddersfield Salary £47,810 - £54,710 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 13/07/2025 23:59 Interview date 31/07/2025

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 visithttps://future.cht.nhs.uk/

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced Neonatal nurse who is a dynamic and enthusiastic individual with a passion for education, staff and service development who can work well within a team and individually, if you have a desire for learning, personal development and supporting the continued development within Neonatal Services this is the role for you .

We are a Level 2 Neonatal Unit within the Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust and part of the Yorkshire and Humber Neonatal Network

Main duties of the job

• Working clinically the post holder will support healthcare practitioners to develop appropriate clinical patient safety knowledge and skills, with achievement of competencies.

• Ensure optimisation of resources for provision and development of clinical education

• Act as a clinical expert, visionary, role model and deliver the education and learning for all staff, in a variety of settings, including the clinical area, working alongside the staff.

• Use of a blended learning approach to ensure maximum benefit from learning opportunities

• Utilise effective methods of assessment, evaluation and impact of competence in clinical and patient safety education.

Working for our organisation

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Maximise the opportunity for inter-professional and interdisciplinary working to facilitate better Trust-wide clinical education.

• Ensure that all clinical education is conceptualized, commissioned and delivered around a centralised framework that maps across operational and workforce plans

• Ensure a skilled clinical workforce exists equipped with the necessary professional and clinical skills for the delivery of high-quality patient care, aligned to learning from incidents, RCAs and SIRIs

• Provide guidance to ensure the appropriate clinical skills are embedded into education and learning and those comply with professional body requirements, AEI accreditation process (where applicable) and are evidence based.

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to develop robust mechanisms for tackling poor practice based on the principles of effective patient safety and governance.

• Liaise with the Yorkshire and Humber Neonatal Operational Delivery Network education team.

· Support staff during the completion of the Neonatal Foundation Programme and Neonatal Qualified in Speciality Course.

· Provide support to:

o New starters

o All Non-Medical Registered and Un-registered Practitioners

o Staff undertaking academic study at AEI’s

o Staff who need to achieve competence following skills training

o assist in the development and maintenance of national initiatives related to education and continuing professional development such as Nursing Revalidation and clinical skills

• Maintain accurate and up to date records of learning events both formal and informal.

• To ensure compliance and implementation of Trust, local and national policies and procedures relating to resuscitation.

• To work with colleagues promoting good working relationships encouraging teamwork, motivation, innovation, and high standards of clinical practice.

• To be clinically competent in and also able to teach complex clinical skills, e.g. IV drug calculation and administration and advanced airway management.

• Provide specialist advice to multidisciplinary groups across all areas of the Trust, always ensuring the delivery of a high standard of care to patients with consideration of patient safety.

Person specification

QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING

• Recognised healthcare professional qualification plus qualified in speciality
• Recognised teaching / supervision/assessment skills
• Evidence of continued development
• Recognised teaching qualification or working towards
• NLS Qualification
• Professional nurse/midwifery advocate qualification
• Degree Qualification
• Evidence of leadership training

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

• Experience of working in a practice education role
• Significant experience of supporting pre and post registration learners
• Demonstrates commitment to practice education
• Evidence of mentoring/supervising/teaching students/staff in practice
• Experience of management/leadership
• Experience of managing a team or caseload
• Recent experience of teaching
• Ability to provide a strategic view on healthcare education
• Experience of partnership working
• Evidence of managing change/contributing to service development
• Experience of inter-professional and cross agency working
• Understanding and knowledge of curriculum design and development
• Knowledge of professional educational standards, and a working knowledge of the NHS and partner organisations
• Highly developed knowledge of current educational provision pertaining to health and social care
• Knowledge of local, regional and national policies pertaining to practice experience and education
• Experience of working across service/organisational boundaries
• Experience of inter-professional working
• Experience of undertaking audit and review
• Band 6 experience
• Experience of report writing
• Recruitment and selection experience

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)

• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Demonstrates high level decision making across organisations
• An ability to store and retrieve complex information on a wide range of issues relating to practice experience
• Teaching, facilitation, and presentation skills
• Good information technology skills including use of Excel
• Ability to work without direct supervision.
• Able to exercise initiative and take independent actions

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 theCheck 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

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.