Specialty Clinical Educator

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

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing hub

Flexible working

Generous annual leave

Pension scheme

Training programmes

Salary sacrifice schemes

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Clinical Educator to support education, training and professional development of healthcare staff. You will combine clinical expertise with teaching and leadership to raise staff competence and patient safety.

The role involves delivering targeted training, guiding policy implementation and producing workforce development data to improve services across our NHS trusts.

Qualifications

• Registered clinician with NMC/HCPC/GPC or equivalent.
• Experience delivering clinical education and staff development.
• Ability to lead training needs assessments and develop programmes.
• Knowledge of coaching, mentoring and quality improvement.

Responsibilities

• Organise and lead delivery of clinical training programmes.
• Implement the Nursing Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals Strategy.
• Act as a clinical resource guiding practice developments.
• Produce transparent data and reports from the practice development team.
• Provide professional leadership and uphold high standards.

Skills

Clinical trainer

Leadership

Mentoring

Coaching

Clinical supervision

Education

NMC/HCPC/GPC registration

Degree level knowledge

Post-registration qualification

Teaching/assessing in clinical practice

Non-medical prescribing

Tools

Mentoring tools

Job description

Site Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital Town Cramlington Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 21/10/2026 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

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.

Main duties of the job

• 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, assessingcompetence 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.

Working for our organisation

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’s isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Working as a core member of the team you will have responsibility for the overall continuing workforce development of staff within the specialty. You will lead on the non-statutory and mandatory training needs within your speciality area. 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 act as a clinical and professional role model to maintain and develop exceptional standards of clinical care. You will promote and foster a culture of education and clinical development within the workforce. You will uphold high standards of practice development and clinical supervision.
• You will work alongside other specialities and professional groups to promote and maintain education and clinical development within the workforce

Person specification

Qualifications

• 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

• 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

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.