Practice Educator - Mental Health

NHS; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great flexible working opportunities

Lease car scheme and Home Electronics

Generous annual leave and pension

Extensive staff health and well-being

Job summary

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool is seeking a Band 6 Practice Educator to join the Neighbourhood, Public & Mental Health System. The role focuses on delivering high‑quality education to registered and unregistered staff across Sunflower, EDYS and Crisis Team, with one clinical shift per week.

You will help develop staff knowledge and competence, drive mandatory training, and collaborate with clinical teams and external partners to strengthen workforce development and

Qualifications

• Registered RMN/LD Nurse or registered Children's Nurse with CAMHs/LD experience.
• Teaching qualification or willingness to pursue.
• Post-registration CAMHs or equivalent qualification.
• Substantial post-registration clinical and managerial experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver educational support across the Sunflower, EDYS and Crisis Team.
• Develop and maintain staff knowledge and skills to ensure staff are fit for purpose.
• Support mandatory training compliance and contribute to the education strategy.
• Promote educational partnerships with other education colleagues and agencies.
• Maintain clinical credibility with one clinical shift per week.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Leadership

Clinical risk management

Education

RMN/LD Nurse qualification

Teaching qualification or equivalent

Post-registration CAMHs qualification

Job description

Main area Mental Health Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent: Monday to Friday Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) Job ref 411-NEI-26-8274921-A

Employer Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Beech House Town Liverpool Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 04/11/2026 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 6

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.

We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.

As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.

You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:

• Great flexible working opportunities
• Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Extensive staff health and well-being programmes

Job overview

Band 6 Full Time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Practice Educator to join the Neighbourhood, Public & Mental Health System.

The successful post holder will provide educational support across the Sunflower, EDYS and Crisis Team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality learning and development opportunities for registered and unregistered staff, including Nurses, Healthcare Assistants and Allied Health Professionals.

The role will focus on developing and maintaining staff knowledge, skills and competence to ensure a workforce that is fit for purpose and practice. Responsibilities will include supporting mandatory training compliance, contributing to the development and implementation of the system’s education strategy, and promoting a positive learning culture across services.

The post holder will work collaboratively with practice education colleagues, clinical teams and external partners to enhance learning opportunities and support workforce development initiatives.

To maintain clinical credibility and support practice-based learning, the role includes one clinical shift per week within Sunflower House.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced clinician with a passion for education, workforce development and improving patient outcomes through learning and professional development.

Main duties of the job

To ensure good, safe and effective education programmes for nurses, HCAs and AHPs staff groups, also monitoring compliance with mandatory training.

To develop and maintain staff knowledge and skills in order to ensure that all staff employed within the system are ‘fit for purpose and practice’.

Assist in developing and implementing the system educational strategy for both registered and unregistered staff.

To promote educational partnerships with other education colleagues and other relevant agencies.

Working for our organisation

Sponsorship - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To ensure good, safe and effective education programmes for nurses, HCAs and AHPs staff groups, also monitoring compliance with mandatory training.

To develop and maintain staff knowledge and skills in order to ensure that all staff employed within the system are ‘fit for purpose and practice’.

Assist in developing and implementing the system educational strategy for both registered and unregistered staff.

To promote educational partnerships with other education colleagues and other relevant agencies.

Qualifications

• Registered RMN/LD Nurse Or a registered Childrens Nurse with additional training and experience within the field of Mental Health and/or Learning Disability.
• Teaching qualification or willing to work towards.
• Post registration qualification in CAMHs or equivalent.

Experience

• Substantial post registration clinical, leadership and managerial experience.
• Evidence of appropriate continuing professional development activity to maintain up-to-date knowledge and on-going competence in all aspects of the role.
• Evidence of working with learners in practice.
• Extensive experience of caring for children in MH Inpatient setting.
• Evidence of developing and delivering training in practice

Knowledge

• Understanding and knowledge of policy developments related to the delivery of care.
• Understanding of equal opportunity and diversity issues
• Proven ability to work under pressure, to prioritise workload and achieve deadlines.

Skills

• Ability to assess and manage patient risk effectively and safely
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Dynamic, flexible, capable of inspiring confidence and able to bring people together in change
• Experience of presenting information to wider audience

We reserve the right to close vacancies without notice when we have received a sufficient number of applications from which to make a shortlist.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development. We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.

Please declare within the supporting information if artificial intelligence (AI) has been used in your application.

Please note, the selection processes at Alder Hey Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.

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.