Neonatal Clinical Education Lead

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Neonatal Service as a Lead Clinical Educator on a 12-month fixed-term contract, with the potential for extension beyond 12 months to cover a secondment within the service.

As part of the senior nursing team within the Family Health Care Group, you will be responsible for leading, developing, and maintaining education and training programmes for the neonatal workforce, supporting the delivery of high-quality patient care and professional development.

If you would like to work within a directorate that has been rated Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), has recently achieved BLISS Gold Accreditation, and is working towards Stage 3 Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) Accreditation, this could be the ideal opportunity for you.

This is a full-time position, although flexible working arrangements will be considered.

Main duties of the job

You will be part of the senior nursing team within the Family Care Group and will be responsible for leading, developing and maintaining education and training to the Neonatal team. We are looking for an innovative, dynamic individual dedicated to the provision of excellent patient care with the development of staff and the improvement of service and performance.

The post holder will be responsible in assisting staff to assess, develop, implement and evaluate patient outcomes through specific education programmes. To be able to work collaboratively across boundaries, both internally and externally for the benefit of neonatal care and staff development, sharing areas of expertise and best practice.

The post holder will provide visible and high quality professional leadership across Neonatal services in nursing, supporting the Divisional Quality Improvement plan. Through the ability to inspire and lead you will drive and implement practice improvement and staff development to improve our families journey, lead in implementing quality measures across the educational pathway and assist in the delivery of a structured, competency based induction & training programme for new staff to the clinical areas ensuring a system of preceptorship & mentorship is fully utilised.

About us

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Details

• Date posted: 19 August 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 7
• Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
• Contract: Fixed term
• Duration: 12 months
• Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
• Reference number: C9365-26-0642
• Job locations: Charles Hastings Way, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR5 1DD, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose

Responsible for developing and maintaining education and training to the neonatal team in order to deliver excellent patient care through having the right staff trained in the right skill at the right time.

Responsible for liaison with relevant staff within the Paediatric Directorate to analyse the training need

The post holder will work collaboratively across boundaries, both internally and externally for the benefit of neonatal, children and young peoples care and staff development, sharing areas of expertise and best practice.

Responsible lead for education and training of the nursing team in the Neonatal specialty

Be a role model and uphold high practice care standards through education and training

To lead on multi-disciplinary neonatal training

To develop a Training Needs Analysis to deliver the framework

To have a visible presence in the clinical area

To implement changes in practice, introduce new practices as a result of clinical audit, recommendations from national, regional or local reports

To assist in the review of national, regional and local reports

Drive forward quality improvements identified following the completions of local and national investigations and the publication of national documents.

Utilise data in the neonatal dashboard to inform changes in training.

Work in collaboration with the directorate management and quality governance team to develop systems and strategies for training.

Develop ongoing, innovative ways of delivering training to ensure that lessons learnt from serious incidents, claims, complaints and audit findings are disseminated, actioned and therefore embedded into clinical practice

To maintain accurate records on Trust training database

Provide monthly training reports to the directorate

Multi-disciplinary working within and outside of the division

Course Administrator for NLS.

Communication & Relationship Skills

Liaise closely with the Governance Quality Leads and Directorate Management Team, to support the delivery of the national patient safety agenda.

Consistently promote the importance of maintaining compliance with professional development.

Lead on project groups, chair meetings and lead discussions with teams both within and outside of the directorate

Produce resourceful communication to all staff on agreed platforms. This is to include, training opportunities, staff inductions, trust mandatory training.

To counsel staff in relation to personnel and professional matters.

Undertake presentations to large groups of clinicians. Deliver reports to a number of different forums, including directorate governance meetings, clinical effectiveness committees, local meetings etc.

Knowledge, Training & Experience

Registered nurse/midwife qualified in care of the neonate

Teaching qualification

First Degree or equivalent experience

Evidence of further professional development

Experience of ward management, leadership, training/skills

Recent teaching experience

Experienced in all aspects of neonatal care

Experience of running training programmes

Able to exercise professional accountability and responsibility Current Practice assessor or Supervisor assessor in the clinical setting

Able to demonstrate research based approach to care

Evidence of leadership skills

Awareness of change in the NHS and maternity services and the impact on neonatal care and services

Able to provide counselling support for individual needs

Demonstrates application of theory to practice

Excellent teaching skills

Analytical & judgmental Skills

Utilise data in the neonatal dashboard to inform changes in training

To be flexible in the approach to training needs and demonstrate innovative ways to deliver in house training countywide

Work to tight deadlines, prioritise activities and be decisive

Planning & Organisation Skills

Plan an annual training strategy for the neonatal team to deliver the national safety agenda.

Administrate for external courses - NLS, NIPE and requested external training.

To liaise with the managers in charge of the wards/departments within the Trust to plan workloads and staffing levels as effectively as possible.

Responsibilities for patient care

Maintain clinical credibility by continuing to work on the neonatal unit caring for babies in all settings.

To assess, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care. To be responsible for the organisation of neonatal care for the patients assigned to you

To be fully conversant in dealing with complex problems such as child protection issues.

To autonomously manage a caseload within the ward area, making decisions and acting on care needs as they arise.

To inform and discuss with the Ward Manager any problems regarding management and/or care of the baby and/or family.

UK Registration

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