Speciality Clinical Educator - Diabetes Podiatry

NHS; North Shields; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in North Shields is seeking a motivated Diabetes Podiatry Clinical Educator to join their team. In this hybrid role, you will dedicate 60% to education and 40% to clinical care, aiming for high-quality support for diabetes patients. The position requires excellent leadership skills and experience in delivering clinical education, making a significant impact on patient care through training and development. Join a trust that prioritizes both staff and patient experiences.

Qualifications

• Professional registration with NMC/HCPC/GPC.
• Post registration qualification relevant to specialty.
• Significant post registration experience.

Responsibilities

• Map education provision across the service.
• Identify learning needs and support training.
• Develop ongoing education and training packages.
• Provide high quality education across the trust.
• Promote clinical development with the service.

Skills

Clinical education delivery

Leadership skills

Coaching and mentoring

Quality improvement

Education

Degree level knowledge or equivalent

Qualification in teaching and assessing

Registered mentor

Job description

Go back Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Speciality Clinical Educator - Diabetes Podiatry

The closing date is 28 December 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic highly skilled and motivated registered practitioner to join the Diabetes Podiatry specialist Team as a Diabetes Podiatry Clinical Educator. Our team is a large, well established and supportive multi‑disciplinary team offering holistic health care support to patients who have diabetes – Trust wide.

This post will suit candidates who thrive in roles which include variety, complexity and challenges alongside opportunities for growth.

You are required to have excellent interpersonal and leadership skills and will need to be a highly motivated, committed practitioner who is passionate about delivering high quality education and guidance. You will provide expert assistance, support and exercise accountability as set out in the HCPC Code of Professional Conduct. The role will have a significant amount of innovation, quality improvement and pathway development. If you feel you have the above attributes, then we would look forward to receiving your application.

Fixed term for external candidates, secondment for internal candidates.

Please ensure you have prior approval from your current line manager, that a secondment agreement can be facilitated within your current department before applying

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

The main purpose of the Diabetes Podiatry Clinical Educator role is to understand the current training offers within the team and co‑produce a sustainable, accessible and high‑quality training framework in collaboration with the community teams. Upskilling the current acute team and providing ongoing learning for staff and health professionals who support people with diabetes, to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe and accessible patient care.

You will be working 60% in the education role and 40% working in a clinical role to continue to use your clinical skills and knowledge to provide high quality care for our patients.

About us

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 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, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Job responsibilities

• Comprehensively map education provision across the service.
• Work with staff to identify learning needs and support opportunities and training to meet those needs.
• Develop and deliver on‑going education and training packages.
• Provide high quality, education across the trust raising awareness in supporting people with a learning disability.
• Evaluate the impact of education on staff knowledge, skills and behaviours as well as patient care.
• Act as a clinical and professional role model to maintain and develop exceptional standards of care.
• Promote and foster a culture of education and clinical development with the service.
• Work clinically as a Diabetes podiatrist providing high quality care to our patients.
• Work alongside other specialities and professional groups to promote and maintain education and clinical development within the service.
• Role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Professional Registration

• Professional registration with NMC/HCPC/GPC (depending on the role advertised)
• Degree level of knowledge or equivalent level of knowledge and / or experience, supplemented by specialist knowledge relevant to the role to masters level or equivalent experience
• Registered mentor
• Post registration qualification relevant to specialty or equivalent experience
• Qualification in teaching, learning and assessing in clinical practice and significant experience of delivering training and education in the clinical setting
• Trained clinical supervisor
• Trained coach
• Non‑medical Prescribing

Experience and knowledge

• Significant post registration experience and ability to demonstrate clinical skills, knowledge, credibility and expertise in the specialty.
• Experience of delivering clinical education and development activities
• Evidence of own continuing professional development and its application in the clinical setting to ensure ongoing clinical credibility as an educator
• Experience of networking at a regional and National level
• Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
• Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust