Specialty Clinical Educator - Diabetes

NHS; North Shields; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Diabetes Specialty Clinical Educator at NHS Northumbria Healthcare. The educator will play a key role in training staff in diabetes care, ensuring high-quality patient services across trust facilities. Applicants should possess significant clinical education experience and professional registration.

Qualifications

• Registered with NMC/HCPC/GPC.
• Experience in clinical education and training delivery.
• IT skills for educational resources.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver education and training packages.
• Work with staff to identify learning needs.
• Evaluate education impact on patient care.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Training and education

Education

Degree level knowledge or equivalent

Post registration qualification relevant to specialty

Qualification in teaching, learning and assessing

Job description

Job summary

Diabetes Specialty Clinical Educator - Open to Nurses, Midwives & AHPs. Full-time 12 month Secondment

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic highly skilled and motivated registered practitioner to join the Diabetic specialist Team as a Diabetic 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 must have a range of experience of working with people with a diabetes to enable you to upskill the workforce in developing their skills, knowledge and confidence in supporting people with a learning disability across both community and acute settings.

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 NMC /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.

Main duties of the job

The main purpose of the Diabetes Clinical Educator role is to understand the barriers and challenges with current training offers and co-produce a sustainable, accessible and high-quality training offer to community and acute staff within Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust. Upskilling the workforce 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.

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.

Details Date posted

17 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year pro rata per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

319-7265749SC

Job locations

North Tyneside General Hospital

Rake Lane

North Shields

NE29 8NH

Job description Job responsibilities

Job description

This post will work trust wide into both acute and community services across NMAHP to;

• 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 workforce.
• Work alongside other specialities and professional groups to promote and maintain education and clinical development within the workforce.
• Role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.

Job description Job responsibilities

Job description

This post will work trust wide into both acute and community services across NMAHP to;

• 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 workforce.
• Work alongside other specialities and professional groups to promote and maintain education and clinical development within the workforce.
• Role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• 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
• IT skills to produce educational resources, reports and data

Desirable

• Trained clinical supervisor
• Leadership qualification
• Trained coach
• Non-medical prescribing

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• 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
• IT skills to produce educational resources, reports and data

Desirable

• Trained clinical supervisor
• Leadership qualification
• Trained coach
• Non-medical prescribing

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

North Tyneside General Hospital

Rake Lane

North Shields

NE29 8NH

Employer's website

https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

North Tyneside General Hospital

Rake Lane

North Shields

NE29 8NH

Employer's website

https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)