Clinical Educator

Job summary

An exciting secondment opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Clinical Educator to join the existing education team within Specialty and Integrated Medicine (SIM) Clinical Service Unit to cover maternity leave. We are a diverse and knowledgeable education team who are motivated to influence the future of healthcare through education and staff development. Are you passionate about staff education? Are you looking for an opportunity to improve standards of care for patients? Do you want to use your knowledge and experience to develop others? If the answer is yes, we would love to hear from you. We are looking for a Clinical Educator to expand the Infectious Diseases speciality training programme, along with the High Consequence Infectious Diseases simulation training and related clinical competencies. The other part of the role will be setting up our Outpatient Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) line access training programme, increasing the team resources and training in midline insertions.

Main duties of the job

Working clinically alongside members of the nursing staff, you will facilitate them in learning new skills, taking on new roles and responsibilities by undertaking an assessment of the nurses competence when taking on these new skills and providing feedback to the individual nurse. You will also be working with staff to improve standards of practice in healthcare associated infections (HCAIs), and will be an active member of the Quality Improvement Collaboratives. We are seeking to appoint highly motivated nurses with a passion for developing staff, who can work autonomously, be flexible, show resilience and has good organisational skills. The role is both challenging and rewarding, and requires the individual to act as a role model at all times, motivating and supporting staff in their professional development and the delivery of high standards of patient care.

Job responsibilities

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.