# Clinical Education Facilitator

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
- **Location:** University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (1 Clinical Shift per week, or one full week a month)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-02T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19T11:41:17.454Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Warwickshire/Coventry/University_Hospitals_Coventry_Warwickshire_NHS_Trust/Emergency_Medicine/Emergency_Medicine-v8219685
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8219685?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.uhcw.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The candidate will be joining a well-established Clinical Education team within Emergency Medicine working with 2 Adult Nurse CEF’s, 1 CEF for Children’s Emergency Department, 1 CEF for Minor Injury/Illness + UTC, and a Clinical Education HCSW/admin. We support the bustling group of Emergency Medicine Nursing + AHP staff, covering Adult Emergency Department, Children’s Emergency Department, Minor Injury + Illness Unit and Urgent Treatment Centres, Acute Medical Short Stay, Acute Frailty Unit and Medical Assessment Unit.

Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

### Main duties of the job

The EM Clinical Education Facilitator's are responsible for supporting the delivery, coordination, and evaluation of clinical education programs within our Emergency Medicine Group settings. The role focuses on enhancing the clinical competence of healthcare professionals—including doctors, nurses, paramedics, and allied health staff—by facilitating training, simulation, supervision and assessment, leading to achieving professional development aligned with evidence-based emergency medicine practices.

The facilitator collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to design and implement educational initiatives that improve patient safety, clinical performance, and adherence to emergency care protocols.

The position requires strong clinical knowledge of emergency medicine care, excellent communication and facilitation skills, and the ability to engage diverse learners in a fast-paced healthcare setting while promoting continuous professional development and quality improvement. Sound IT skills are expected to keep record keeping of such training in ways easy to review and analyse.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

- To be a visible presence in the clinical areas working clinically alongside, supervising learners to enable them to achieve their learning objectives.
- The successful candidate will work within our team to take responsibility for specific tasks such as delivering training to our wider emergency medicine team on a new device, whilst monitoring progress through excellent record keeping.
- Responsibilities include coordinating teaching sessions, supporting simulation-based training, mentoring learners, and assisting in the assessment of clinical competencies.
- Guide senior staff and practice assessors and supervisors to ensure students and other learners receive a robust induction and orientation to the placement areas.
- Working closely with new starters in emergency medicine, specifically newly qualified professionals both in a classroom and clinical supervision setting to support their induction and settling in period within their new role. This involves the planning and teaching on local induction.
- Being kept up to date with own clinical knowledge and skills, to an ‘expert’ level, able to cascade knowledge and skills to the required roles.
- Monitoring, interpreting and actioning figures of mandatory and essential training, communicating with the wider teams to ensure engagement and performance achieved
- Communicating to team leaders any barriers to own or wider team performance, with active initiative for resolving barriers
- To signpost staff to the appropriate information, advice and guidance relating to the learning opportunities provided within the trust.
- Communicate effectively with colleagues, patients and relatives.
- Participate in clinical audit and reviews of patient care, as required.
- Working 1 clinical shift a week/1 week a month-varying clinical presence across the emergency medicine clinical areas. This shift may be flexible to meet service demand/needs.
- The role will require flexible working to cover the needs of the service.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- - Confident and calm attitude with an ability to work under pressure
- Good organisational & team building skills
- Demonstrates effective leadership qualities
- Ability to teach, assess and supervise others
- Willing to work in all clinical areas to support learners and clinical staff
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Willing to work flexibly to cover the needs of the service. This may include evenings and weekends.

**Desirable**

- - Advanced Microsoft Office Skill (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)
- Ability to work autonomously setting own targets and measuring performance against these targets
- Ability to use a variety of presentations skills to engage with individuals with a multitude of learning styles

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- - Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
- Knowledge of pre-registration Health Science programmes and professional bodies (NMC and HCPC) standards relating to education

**Desirable**

- - Knowledge of coaching models
- Theory of curriculum planning
- A good understanding of current
- issues relating to the NHS.
- Use of action learning and other methods of facilitating staff development

### Experience

**Essential**

- - Significant post-registration experience within an Emergency Medicine setting, including experience at Band 5 or Band 6 level.
- Recent experience of working with students, learners or newly qualified staff in practice
- Experience delivering teaching, training or presentations
- Current clinical credibility at senior level
- Evidence of ability to manage sensitive and complex information and situations

**Desirable**

- - Involvement in quality improvement, research or audit activities
- Contribution with classroom/simulation based education
- Cascade trainer in one or more topics
- Experience in audit and record keeping
- Evidence of ability to function with a high degree of personal accountability and autonomy.
- Evidence of ability to manage change and challenge barriers to change

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- - Registered Nurse registered with the NMC
- Undertaken Practice Assessor training
- Degree in relevant field
- Triage Qualification e.g. MTS or ED Acuity
- Level 3 Resuscitation (ILS or equivalent)

**Desirable**

- - Professional Nurse Advocate or committed to work towards
- Post-graduate Certificate in Education or equivalent; or committed to work towards
- Academic study within Emergency/Acute Medicine field
- Level 4 Resuscitation (ALS or equivalent)

### Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

**Essential**

- - Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s values. (As detailed in UHCW’s Values in Action document below)
- Applicants applying for job roles with managerial responsibility will be required to demonstrate evidence of promoting equal opportunities through work experience

## Documents

- [candidate information (pdf, 736.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10528083)
- [welcoming disabled candidates (pdf, 371.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10528082)
- [job description and personal specification (pdf, 688.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10550631)

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