Speciality Clinical Educator

Northumbria Group.; North Shields; Remote; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Clinical Educator to join the Nutrition and Dietetics Service. The postholder will develop, deliver and evaluate education and training programmes on the wards, supporting staff to achieve excellence in clinical practice.

Working collaboratively with dietitians, nursing teams and allied health professionals, the role focuses on enteral feeding care and safe discharge preparation, with flexible working options and opportunities to develop

Qualifications

• Experience in education and workforce development in healthcare settings.
• Ability to design, deliver and evaluate ward-based education programmes.
• Ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams in nutrition and dietetics.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deliver and evaluate education and training programmes on wards.
• Support staff to achieve excellence in clinical practice in nutrition and enteral feeding.
• Collaborate with dietitians, nursing teams and allied health professionals to strengthen competencies and discharge planning.

Job description

Main area Nutrition and Dietetics Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Secondment: 12 months (or fixed term for 12 months) Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (9-5pm) Job ref 319-8367490SA

Site North Tyneside General Hospital Town North Shields Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 16/11/2026 23:59

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

Clinical Educator - enteral feeding Nutrition and Dietetics

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, innovative, and highly motivated Clinical Educator to join our Nutrition and Dietetics Service. Do you have a passion for education, workforce development, and improving patient outcomes through evidence-based nutritional care? Are you a team player?

The postholder will play a pivotal role in developing, delivering, and evaluating education and training programmes on the wards, supporting staff to achieve excellence in clinical practice. Working collaboratively with dietitians, nutrition nurse specialists, allied health professionals, nursing teams, work in the clinical ward teams to strengthen their confidence and competencies. Especially areas relating to safe discharge preparation for families with Enteral feeding tubes. Highlighting the differences in care of nasal feeding tubes