Senior Clinical and Professional Educator

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust; Newport; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS trust in the UK is seeking a Senior Clinical and Professional Educator to join their team in Newport. The role involves driving a culture of improvement and supporting professional and clinical education across the organization. Applicants should have a registered professional qualification and relevant teaching experience. The position is full-time with a salary range of £38,682 - £46,580 per annum, and offers additional staff benefits including on-site wellness facilities.

Benefits

On-site Nursery

Access to Wellness Centre

Free Beach Hut access

Qualifications

• Hold a current registered professional qualification with either the HCPC or NMC.
• Hold a recognised teaching or practice education qualification.
• Evidence of delivering education and training either 1:1 or in groups.

Responsibilities

• Support Practice Development Lead and Head of Professional Education.
• Contribute to guidelines, policies, curricula, and competencies for practice.
• Engage in quality monitoring to maintain compliance with standards.

Skills

Early Childhood Education

Adult Education

Public Speaking

Education

Registered professional qualification with HCPC or NMC

Recognised teaching or practice education qualification

Post qualifying study at HEI level 6 / 7

Job description

This is an internal vacancy and we invite applications from employees of Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust only.

NHS Band 6: Salary 38682 - 46580 per annum

Hours: 37.5 per week

Contract: Permanent

Base Location: St Marys Hospital Parkhurst Rd Newport PO30 5TG

We are seeking a Senior Clinical and Professional Educator to join our team on the Isle of Wight to support the delivery of the Trusts 2024-2029 Working Together Improving Together Strategy and the Trusts Clinical Strategy to enable our workforce to deliver excellent person‑centred care for patients and their families. You will be part of a team that is innovative and passionate about driving a culture of improvement enables access to continued professional development for all and leads programmes of development. You will work across the organisation to support professional and clinical practice using clinical experience and evidence‑based practice.

Key Role and Responsibilities

• You will support the work of the Practice Development Lead and The Head of Professional Education in the key workstreams: Preceptorship Apprentice Nurse pastoral and practice support Professional Nurse Advocacy Safer Learning Environment Charter Resilience Based Clinical Supervision.
• You will contribute to the development of guidelines policies curricula and competencies for practice and support compliance with NICE / CQC / HEE where relevant to the multi professional clinical workforce.
• Supporting clinical and professional education and development working with service and professional leads whilst also maintaining own clinical competence.
• Engage in the quality monitoring which support practice areas to maintain professional and regulatory body standards for practice‑based education.
• Maximise the number of newly registered professionals / students / learners who can be supported within clinical practice areas and positively influence the quality of the learner experience and learning environment under the Safety Learning Environment Charter.
• Ensuring and supporting clinical governance data and reporting enabling learners to deliver high quality clinical care represent education in key trust councils and forums.
• Proven leadership qualities that enable you to engage key stakeholders and possess the skills of influence to create change and advocate for education and development of our people.
• Leading by example be present and visible in practice role modelling expected professional practice and supporting the educational development of all learners.
• Play a key role in planning delivering and evaluating essential competency training and development classroom‑based teaching sessions and clinical skills teaching.
• Be in possession of or working towards a PgCert teaching qualification if not already possessed.

Interviews: Please note interviews will be held on the 9th of December 2025 and will include a ten minute presentation the subject to be confirmed at invitation to interview.

For full details of this role please refer to the enclosed Job Description or contact

Qualifications

Essential

• Hold a current registered professional qualification with either the HCPC or NMC.
• Hold a recognised teaching or practice education qualification.
• Evidence of post qualifying study at HEI level 6 / 7.
• Evidence of delivering education and training either 1 : 1 or in groups.
• Proven experience of supervising and assessing practice in a multi‑professional practice environment.

Current working knowledge of the NHS including current national initiatives concerning health education.

Desirable

• Be a clinical supervisor and / or completed Resilience Based clinical supervision training.
• Professional Nurse Advocate.
• Proven experience of working collaboratively and effectively within a multi‑professional environment.
• Evidence of leadership experience.
• Demonstrable involvement in service development issues and change management.

Additional Information

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on‑site Nursery access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days our on‑site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool and access to our fantastic staff networks.

We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education opinions culture ethnicity race sex gender identity and expression nation of origin age languages spoken veterans status colour religion disability sexual orientation and beliefs.

Remote Work: No

Employment Type: Full‑time

Key Skills

Early Childhood Education, Algebra, Classroom Experience, Lesson Planning, Special Education, Adult Education, Special Needs, Calculus, Teaching, Geometry, Experience with Children, Public Speaking

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1