Specialty Clinical Educator

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Cramlington; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Clinical Educator to support education, training and professional development of healthcare staff, ensuring safe, evidence-based patient care and clinical leadership.

You will organise and lead training programmes, guide practice developments, assess competence and contribute to service improvement, with a focus on lifelong learning and high standards of clinical practice.

Qualifications

• Supports education and professional development of healthcare staff to ensure safe, evidence-based patient care.
• Leads and delivers clinical training programmes and supports service improvement.
• Guides practice developments, assesses competence and implements policies.

Responsibilities

• Organise, develop and lead clinical training programmes for the clinical workforce within the specialty.
• Support the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals Strategy implementation.
• Act as an expert clinical resource to colleagues by guiding practice developments and policies.
• Demonstrate problem-solving approaches across all aspects of the role.
• Promote lifelong learning and provide professional leadership for workforce development.

Skills

Clinical education

Leadership

Training delivery

Policy implementation

Data reporting

Job description

A Clinical Educator is responsible for supporting the education, training and professional development of healthcare staff to ensure safe, effective, evidence-based patient care. The role combines clinical expertise with teaching and leadership skills to develop staff competence, improve patient outcomes and support service improvement.

• Organise, develop and lead the delivery of clinical training programmes to meet the learning needs of the clinical workforce within the specialty.
• Supporting the implementation of the Nursing Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals Strategy.
• Act as an expert clinical resource to colleagues by guiding practice developments, assessing competence and supporting implementation of policies.
• Demonstrate a problem solving approach to all aspects of the role
• Promote a lifelong learning culture providing a high level of professional leadership for the delivery of workforce development.
• Challenge practice and identify competency issues.
• Support the implementation and sustainability of clinical supervision.
• Ensure production of transparent data and reports from the practice development team.
• Demonstrate professional leadership and uphold high standards of clinical practice.

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! For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Natalie Richardson Job title: Matron Telephone number: 07967816865