Research Delivery Practice Educator

NHS Jobs; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Research Delivery Practice Educator to shape local health and social care research delivery across the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Research Delivery Network. You will design and deliver high-quality education and training, support staff to address skills gaps, and ensure competencies for safe, effective research.

The role partners with RRDN colleagues to drive workforce development, share best practice, and promote continuous improvement,

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering education and training in health/clinical research.
• Ability to mentor staff and assess competencies.
• Strong collaboration with regional partners and education providers.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and delivery of research practice education and clinical skills training.
• Design, deliver and evaluate learning programmes to boost workforce capability.
• Provide guidance, mentorship and assess competencies of research delivery staff.
• Identify skills gaps and collaborate with partners on training solutions.
• Promote continuous improvement and uphold regulatory and sponsor standards.

Skills

Education program design

Mentorship

Competency assessment

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Healthcare education background

Job description

Are you interested in helping to shape the local landscape of Health and Social Care research delivery? Then join our team as a Research Delivery Practice Educator and inspire excellence, innovation, and workforce development across the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Research Delivery Network.As a Research Delivery Practice Educator, you will play a key role in developing the research delivery and clinical skills of the NIHR Regional Research Delivery Network (RRDN) Agile Research Delivery Team. Working within the Workforce Development function, you will design and deliver high-quality education and training, support research delivery partners to identify and address skills gaps, and ensure staff maintain the competencies required to deliver safe, effective, and high-quality health and social care research. You will collaborate with colleagues across the RRDN and wider research community to drive workforce development, share best practice, and enhance research delivery capability across the region.

Main duties of the job

Working closely with the Workforce and People Senior Manager you will:

• Lead the development and delivery of research practice education and clinical skills training for the Agile Research Delivery Team.
• Design, deliver and evaluate innovative learning and development programmes that enhance workforce capability and research delivery excellence.
• Provide expert guidance, mentorship and competency assessment to research delivery staff across a range of clinical and non-clinical research settings.
• Support the professional development of multidisciplinary staff, including mentoring new team members and facilitating formal learning interventions.
• Identify workforce skills gaps and collaborate with partners to develop effective training solutions and workforce development initiatives.
• Ensure clinical research staff maintain the knowledge, skills and competencies required to meet regulatory, sponsor and organisational standards.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with regional and national stakeholders, education providers, healthcare organisations and research partners.
• Contribute to regional and national workforce development projects, service improvement initiatives and the implementation of the NIHR Research Delivery Network Workforce Strategy.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, innovation and inclusive learning across the research delivery workforce.
• Act as a professional role model and ambassador for the NIHR and Research Delivery Network, championing high‑quality research delivery and patient‑centred care.

What you will bring to the role

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Working closely with the Workforce and People Senior Manager you will:

• Lead the development and delivery of research practice education and clinical skills training for the Agile Research Delivery Team.
• Design, deliver and evaluate innovative learning and development programmes that enhance workforce capability and research delivery excellence.
• Provide expert guidance, mentorship and competency assessment to research delivery staff across a range of clinical and non-clinical research settings.
• Support the professional development of multidisciplinary staff, including mentoring new team members and facilitating formal learning interventions.
• Identify workforce skills gaps and collaborate with partners to develop effective training solutions and workforce development initiatives.
• Ensure clinical research staff maintain the knowledge, skills and competencies required to meet regulatory, sponsor and organisational standards.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with regional and national stakeholders, education providers, healthcare organisations and research partners.
• Contribute to regional and national workforce development projects, service improvement initiatives and the implementation of the NIHR Research Delivery Network Workforce Strategy.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, innovation and inclusive learning across the research delivery workforce.
• Act as a professional role model and ambassador for the NIHR and Research Delivery Network, championing high‑quality research delivery and patient‑centred care.

About us

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi‑year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are: Patient-centred Collaborative Fair Accountable Empowered All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values. We’re committed to recruiting exceptional people to deliver outstanding services across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and helping every colleague reach their full potential. We’re looking for a compassionate, inclusive, and collaborative leader who shares our values and can build strong partnerships. We warmly invite applications from people from a variety of backgrounds and sectors, and are especially keen to hear from individuals from a minority ethnic background. We’re dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and has a true sense of belonging, as we work together to deliver the best in healthcare to the people of Leeds and beyond.

Sponsorship Eligibility

To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.

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.