Clinical Educator

Job summary

Are you ready for a challenge, passionate about education, the continual improvement of services we deliver and patient safety. If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Educator to join the Outpatient Clinical Support Service for fixed term. Working closely with the Head of Nursing, Clinical Educator and Matrons you will develop, support and implement an educational framework for both new and experienced outpatient nursing staff of all grades. You will be expected to lead the work with Sister/Charge nurses on developing and implementing learning packages and competencies to support induction, preceptorship, and mentorship for the registered and unregistered workforce across the Outpatient service.

Main duties of the job

The job holder will play a lead role in ensuring the development of clinical staff both registered and unregistered. The job holder will enable the development of clinical practice mentors, assessors and key trainers, providing supervision through on-site support and Trust wide continuous professional development activities. The post holder will be responsible for leading clinical education and associated resources in Outpatients and phlebotomy clinical areas. The successful candidate will provide a high standard of education.

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: 02 September 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
• Contract: Fixed term
• Duration: 5 months
• Working pattern: Part-time
• Reference number: 002022
• Job locations: Cross Site, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9 7TF, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

For questions about this job, contact:

Karen Legdard

Head of Nursing OPS CSU

karen.ledgard@nhs.net

0791804106

Shortlisting 17th September

Interviewing W/C 21st September

Job Summary

Are you ready for a challenge, passionate about education, the continual improvement of services we deliver and patient safety. If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Educator to join the Outpatient Clinical Support Service for fixed term.

Working closely with the Head of Nursing, Clinical Educator and Matrons you will develop, support and implement an educational framework for both new and experienced outpatient nursing staff of all grades. You will be expected to lead the work with Sister/Charge nurses on developing and implementing learning packages and competencies to support induction, preceptorship, and mentorship for the registered and unregistered workforce across the Outpatient service.

As well as Nursing, there are a number of teams within Outpatient CSU that as Clinical Educator you will have the opportunity to work alongside. You will be able to advise and support the non-nursing educators and team managers within the CSU (ie reception, administrative, switchboard and phlebotomy) with staff development and competency packages in relation to improving our customer care and experience training.

Why you should join our Team

With an ever changing workforce in nursing and phlebotomy the successful candidate will also be involved in the assessment, development and implementation of new roles within the outpatient environments.

What you will bring to the role

The job holder will support the assessment of the quality of clinical and other practice learning environments, and implement interventions for improvement. The job holder will support mentors and assessors and ensure clinical professional development for preceptorship and other role developments. They will enhance the quality of care delivery from both the registered and unregistered workforce. The post holder may be line managing a junior clinical educator depending on the clinical service unit.

You will have

• Significant and recent relevant clinical experience.
• Clinical experience within the speciality (essential )
• Significant post registration experience in a junior leadership role eg Band 6 or equivalent
• Experience of clinical audit and standard setting
• Working with a wide range of professionals including medical, nursing and management colleagues
• Evidence of service development and or facilitation of change management
• Budgetary management experience (desirable)
• Understanding of performance management strategies
• Significant experience within a leadership position

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

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

Our Trust values

The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.

We are….

Responsible Open and Honest One Team Kind

Our Trust priorities

Our purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time

Our priorities:

People Improvement and Innovation Partnerships Outcomes

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.