Clinical Educator - L50

Job summary

Job Summary An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 within the Children's Nursing Education Team within the Paediatric Specialty L50 for a substantive post. The focus of this role will be driving quality and service improvement within the Leeds Children's Hospital (LCH) through education, mandatory training, priority training and professional development education. The applicant should possess excellent organisational skills and be highly motivated with the ability to develop and implement strategy to achieve this. The postholder would be responsible for overseeing and facilitating induction training and annual update training for new starters and existing staff including all Registered Nurses, Registered Nursing Associates and Non-Registered clinical facing staff. You will be responsible for providing quality assurance of teaching content, competency packages and online learning. The postholder will be required to keep an audit trail of training provided across LCH. A broad level of knowledge and experience of Children's Specialty is required to support the education delivery for L50. The applicant is required to provide evidence of leadership in a clinical setting, possess excellent organisational skills and the ability to work collaboratively with all teams throughout Leeds Children's Hospital.

Main duties of the job

Why you should join our Team The Leeds Children's Hospital is one of the UK's largest specialist Children's Hospitals that provides acute tertiary services for Children and Young People across the Yorkshire and Humber region. We host 27 Medical and Surgical Specialties across our 16 inpatient wards in addition to our Paediatric Critical Care Service, Children's Medical and Surgical Day Case Unit, Children's Assessment Unit and Children's Outpatient Department. We are a specialist regional centre for Liver and Renal Transplantation, Complex Children's Cancer Treatment, Neurosurgery and Congenital Cardiac Surgery.

About us

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.

Details

• Date posted: 11 June 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Part-time
• Reference number: 001260
• Job locations: Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 3EX, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

For questions about this job, contact:

Name: Jennifer Brown Position: Senior Clinical Educator Email: jennifer.brown24@nhs.net Phone number: 0113 3922397

What you will bring to the role

The application will have knowledge of national standards, policies and the ways in which these will influence nursing education in the future. Evidence of working independently and presenting creativity when planning and preparing education is essential. The role will involve planning education in accordance with clinical standards, managing risk in-line with Leeds Teaching Hospitals operational targets to meet regulatory compliance through training and education. The applicant will demonstrate the ability to create and sustain an innovative culture of education and learning in clinical practice. The successful candidate will have leadership experience in the practice setting and possess excellent organisational and communication skills.

Additional aspects of the role will include working with the Lead Nurse for Children's Education and Lead Nurse for Quality in responding to clinical audits, incidents, service improvement to ensure patient and staff safety. The post holder will need to be proactive and motivated to drive change within the wider MDT. The postholder will work with the Children's Education Team's across LCH to instigate further training and education required for existing staff through clinical skills training and implementation of surge training annually.

The successful applicant must possess a recognised teaching/assessment qualification (e.g. PAPP, SLIPs or mentorship). Significant experience of working clinically in LCH, understanding of how the service runs.

Experience in education and training is desirable. The candidate will have the opportunity to bring their own ideas to improve education and staff development across LCH.

Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

Patient-centred Collaborative Fair Accountable Empowered

All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values

We’re committed to recruiting exceptional people to deliver outstanding services across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and helping every colleague reach their full potential. We’re looking for a compassionate, inclusive, and collaborative leader who shares our values and can build strong partnerships. We warmly invite applications from people from a variety of backgrounds and sectors, and are especially keen to hear from individuals from a minority ethnic background. We’re dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and has a true sense of belonging, as we work together to deliver the best in healthcare to the people of Leeds and beyond.

To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.