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Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
24 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills and Attributes
High Level of IT competence including word processing, Microsoft Excel, Access and presentation packages
- Skills and Attributes
Ability to present complex information is a way that is meaningful and understandable to a range of audiences
- Skills and Attributes
Understanding of personal accountability
- Skills and Attributes
Ability to work under pressure balancing conflicting workloads
- Skills and Attributes
Ability to work independently with initiative and maintaining confidentiality
- Skills and Attributes
Ability to work collaboratively across organisations and geographically dispersed teams
- Skills and Attributes
High level of communication and interpersonal skills
- Skills and Attributes
Leadership skills - evidence of ability to support / mentor / guide junior staff
- Skills and Attributes
Effective presentation skills
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of teaching and mentorship
- Knowledge and Experience
Highly developed specialist knowledge and extensive experience on all aspects of the research process and research delivery practice, including expectations of clinical skills, Principal Investigator roles and required competencies across research delivery settings and on a wide variety of studies including all phases of Clinical Trials, CTIMP interventional/observational and commercial/non-commercial.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of designing, delivering and evaluating effective learning interventions
- Knowledge and Experience
Expert knowledge of Good Clinical Practice (GCP), research governance and related regulations
- Education and Qualifications
Postgraduate qualification (eg. Post Graduate Diploma or similar qualification, which signifies level 7 level of knowledge) in a relevant subject or equivalent experience
- Education and Qualifications
Registered Nurse or AHP on relevant part of the professional register (NMC HCPC)
- Education and Qualifications
Evidence of on-going professional development (both in terms of meeting the CPD requirements of the relevant professional body and in respect of leading education interventions).
- Values and Personal Qualities
Enthusiastic and highly motivated
- Values and Personal Qualities
Respectful of others
- Values and Personal Qualities
Professional manner
- Values and Personal Qualities
Resilient and calm under pressure
- Values and Personal Qualities
Team player
- Values and Personal Qualities
Assertive
- Values and Personal Qualities
Facilitative, patient and helpful, to be a proactive role model
- Values and Personal Qualities
Commitment to learning and a growth mindset
Desirable
1 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Education and Qualifications
Recognised teaching qualification
Job summary
Are you interested in helping to shape the local landscape of Health and Social Care research delivery? Then join our team as a Research Delivery Practice Educator and inspire excellence, innovation, and workforce development across the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Research Delivery Network. As a Research Delivery Practice Educator, you will play a key role in developing the research delivery and clinical skills of the NIHR Regional Research Delivery Network (RRDN) Agile Research Delivery Team. Working within the Workforce Development function, you will design and deliver high-quality education and training, support research delivery partners to identify and address skills gaps, and ensure staff maintain the competencies required to deliver safe, effective, and high-quality health and social care research. You will collaborate with colleagues across the RRDN and wider research community to drive workforce development, share best practice, and enhance research delivery capability across the region.
Main duties of the job
Working closely with the Workforce and People Senior Manager you will: Lead the development and delivery of research practice education and clinical skills training for the Agile Research Delivery Team. Design, deliver and evaluate innovative learning and development programmes that enhance workforce capability and research delivery excellence. Provide expert guidance, mentorship and competency assessment to research delivery staff across a range of clinical and non-clinical research settings. Support the professional development of multidisciplinary staff, including mentoring new team members and facilitating formal learning interventions. Identify workforce skills gaps and collaborate with partners to develop effective training solutions and workforce development initiatives. Ensure clinical research staff maintain the knowledge, skills and competencies required to meet regulatory, sponsor and organisational standards. Build and maintain strong relationships with regional and national stakeholders, education providers, healthcare organisations and research partners. Contribute to regional and national workforce development projects, service improvement initiatives and the implementation of the NIHR Research Delivery Network Workforce Strategy. Promote a culture of continuous improvement, innovation and inclusive learning across the research delivery workforce. Act as a professional role model and ambassador for the NIHR and Research Delivery Network, championing high-quali
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: 18 September 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 7
- Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 002193
- Job locations: Cross Site, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9 7TF, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
For questions about this job, contact:
Name: Sally Gordon Position: Workforce and People Senior Manager Email: sally.gordon@nihr.ac.uk Phone number: 07425626248
Job Summary
Are you interested in helping to shape the local landscape of Health and Social Care research delivery? Then join our team as a Research Delivery Practice Educator and inspire excellence, innovation, and workforce development across the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Research Delivery Network.
As a Research Delivery Practice Educator, you will play a key role in developing the research delivery and clinical skills of the NIHR Regional Research Delivery Network (RRDN) Agile Research Delivery Team. Working within the Workforce Development function, you will design and deliver high-quality education and training, support research delivery partners to identify and address skills gaps, and ensure staff maintain the competencies required to deliver safe, effective, and high-quality health and social care research. You will collaborate with colleagues across the RRDN and wider research community to drive workforce development, share best practice, and enhance research delivery capability across the region.
This role will cover the whole of the Yorkshire and Humber region. The post holder will have a contractual base. Currently have contractual bases operational bases at Leeds, Sheffield, York and Willerby.
What you will bring to the role
Working closely with the Workforce and People Senior Manager you will:
- Lead the development and delivery of research practice education and clinical skills training for the Agile Research Delivery Team.
- Design, deliver and evaluate innovative learning and development programmes that enhance workforce capability and research delivery excellence.
- Provide expert guidance, mentorship and competency assessment to research delivery staff across a range of clinical and non-clinical research settings.
- Support the professional development of multidisciplinary staff, including mentoring new team members and facilitating formal learning interventions.
- Identify workforce skills gaps and collaborate with partners to develop effective training solutions and workforce development initiatives.
- Ensure clinical research staff maintain the knowledge, skills and competencies required to meet regulatory, sponsor and organisational standards.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with regional and national stakeholders, education providers, healthcare organisations and research partners.
- Contribute to regional and national workforce development projects, service improvement initiatives and the implementation of the NIHR Research Delivery Network Workforce Strategy.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, innovation and inclusive learning across the research delivery workforce.
- Act as a professional role model and ambassador for the NIHR and Research Delivery Network, championing high-quality research delivery and patient-centred care.
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.
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This advert is for Research Delivery Practice Educator with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in Leeds, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Practice educator role. The advertised salary is £49387.00 to £56515.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 02 Oct 2026.
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