Speciality Clinical Educator

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; North Shields; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in the North East England is seeking a Clinical Educator specializing in enteral feeding within our Nutrition and Dietetics Service. You will develop, deliver, and evaluate education and training for ward-based staff to improve clinical practice and patient outcomes.

Working with dietitians and nursing teams, you will lead training needs analyses, deliver mandatory training, and support safe discharge planning for families with enteral feeding tubes.

Qualifications

• Experience or interest in education and workforce development.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a range of clinicians.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deliver and evaluate education and training programmes on wards.
• Lead training needs analyses and mandatory training delivery.
• Support safe discharge planning for families with enteral feeding tubes and related care.

Job description

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.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence service development within the clinical teams.

Working as a core member of the team you will have responsibility for the overall continuing workforce development of staff in relation to enteral feeding. You will lead on the non-statutory and mandatory training needs including impact of the training. You will be responsible for the production and delivery of a training needs analysis plan in line with existing national guidance where relevant. You will be responsible for making regular assessments and recommendations based on these needs and guidelines. You will work alongside the enteral feeding team.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of your 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, this is the Northumbria Way!

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Madeleine Lee Job title: Nutrition Nurse lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01670 564006