# Practice Educator - Mental Health > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/practice-educator-mental-health/fabe7f10-134f-49ce-a587-d7b431841984 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/practice-educator-mental-health/fabe7f10-134f-49ce-a587-d7b431841984.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Alder Hey Children's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Practice educator - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent: Monday to Friday - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-28T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-14T09:12:06.663Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Merseyside/Liverpool/Alder_Hey_Childrens_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8274921 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8274921?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.alderhey.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Band 6 Full Time An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Practice Educator to join the Neighbourhood, Public & Mental Health System. The successful post holder will provide educational support across the Sunflower, EDYS and Crisis Team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality learning and development opportunities for registered and unregistered staff, including Nurses, Healthcare Assistants and Allied Health Professionals. The role will focus on developing and maintaining staff knowledge, skills and competence to ensure a workforce that is fit for purpose and practice. Responsibilities will include supporting mandatory training compliance, contributing to the development and implementation of the system’s education strategy, and promoting a positive learning culture across services. The post holder will work collaboratively with practice education colleagues, clinical teams and external partners to enhance learning opportunities and support workforce development initiatives. To maintain clinical credibility and support practice-based learning, the role includes one clinical shift per week within Sunflower House. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced clinician with a passion for education, workforce development and improving patient outcomes through learning and professional development. ### Main duties of the job - To ensure good, safe and effective education programmes for nurses, HCAs and AHPs staff groups, also monitoring compliance with mandatory training. - To develop and maintain staff knowledge and skills in order to ensure that all staff employed within the system are ‘fit for purpose and practice’. - Assist in developing and implementing the system educational strategy for both registered and unregistered staff. - To promote educational partnerships with other education colleagues and other relevant agencies. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities ### 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** - Ability to assess and manage patient risk effectively and safely - Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills - Dynamic, flexible, capable of inspiring confidence and able to bring people together in change **Desirable** - - Experience of presenting information to wider audience ### Knowledge **Essential** - - Understanding and knowledge of policy developments related to the delivery of care. - - Understanding of equal opportunity and diversity issues - - Proven ability to work under pressure, to prioritise workload and achieve deadlines. ### Experience **Essential** - Substantial post registration clinical, leadership and managerial experience. - Evidence of appropriate continuing professional development activity to maintain up-to-date knowledge and on-going competence in all aspects of the role. - Evidence of working with learners in practice. **Desirable** - Extensive experience of caring for children in MH Inpatient setting. - Evidence of developing and delivering training in practice ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered RMN/LD Nurse Or a registered Childrens Nurse with additional training and experience within the field of Mental Health and/or Learning Disability. - Teaching qualification or willing to work towards. **Desirable** - - Post registration qualification in CAMHs or equivalent. ## Documents - [jd/spec (pdf, 672.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10591591) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.