Specialty Clinical Educator

Job overview

A Clinical Educator is responsible for supporting the education, training and professional development of healthcare staff to ensure safe, effective, evidence-based patient care. The role combines clinical expertise with teaching and leadership skills to develop staff competence, improve patient outcomes and support service improvement.

Main duties of the job

• Organise, develop and lead the delivery of clinical training programmes to meet the learning needs of the clinical workforce within the specialty.
• Supporting the implementation of the Nursing Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals Strategy.
• Act as an expert clinical resource to colleagues by guiding practice developments, assessing competence and supporting implementation of policies.
• Demonstrate a problem solving approach to all aspects of the role
• Promote a lifelong learning culture providing a high level of professional leadership for the delivery of workforce development.
• Challenge practice and identify competency issues.
• Support the implementation and sustainability of clinical supervision.
• Ensure production of transparent data and reports from the practice development team.
• Demonstrate professional leadership and uphold high standards of clinical practice.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Working as a core member of the team you will have responsibility for the overall continuing workforce development of staff within the specialty. You will lead on the non-statutory and mandatory training needs within your speciality area. You will be responsible for the production and delivery of a training needs analysis plan in line with existing national guidance where relevant. You will be responsible for making regular assessments and recommendations based on these needs and guidelines.
• You will act as a clinical and professional role model to maintain and develop exceptional standards of clinical care. You will promote and foster a culture of education and clinical development within the workforce. You will uphold high standards of practice development and clinical supervision.
• You will work alongside other specialities and professional groups to promote and maintain education and clinical development within the workforce

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.