Clinical Educator

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 a fixed term.

Working closely with the Head of Nursing 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.

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.

You will have excellent communication and facilitation skills and be able to manage your own workload and time as the Outpatient service is provided across 3 Hospital sites.

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 with staff development and competency packages in relation to improving our customer care and experience training.

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.

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.

You will be expected to lead the nursing contribution to service development, ensuring the pursuit of excellence in care. The job holder will lead on the implementation and monitoring of adherence to relevant clinical guidelines, audit, and research. They will function as a role model for registered and unregistered staff within the clinical area and Trust, enabling and supporting the development of interdisciplinary and cross-city working to ensure the sharing of good practice and delivery of high-quality, effective, and efficient care.

About us

Expected Shortlisting Date: 05/03/2025

Planned Interview Date: 18/03/2025

The role of the Senior Clinical Educator Post is essential for the organisation to ensure nurses and or ODPs work within the governing standards set by professional and regulatory bodies. The job holder will support, educate, and develop registered and unregistered staff in their clinical role and competency, to meet the standards required to deliver high-quality, evidence-based care for service users.

The job holder will deliver education on a Trust-wide basis which impacts on a wide range of clinical areas and departments. The post holder will contribute to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of education and training of registered and unregistered workforce. They will work in collaboration with the senior management team to maintain and project the vision and objectives of the service and ensure that they are embedded in practice. They will identify and celebrate good practice and share with local and Trust teams.

LTHT is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Job responsibilities

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

Skills

1. Coaching Skills.
2. Can evidence excellent communication skills (verbal and written), including sensitive persuasive communication eg in supporting staff members through remedial processes.
3. Able to use word processing applications & current digital systems.
4. Routinely plan and deliver teaching sessions/programmes in a range of settings e.g. formal/informal.
5. Evaluate and evidence the impact of support and change.
6. Evidence of continuous professional development of clinical skills.
7. Ability to teach, supervise and assess registered and unregistered staff.
8. Recruitment and selection.
9. Able to present information to large groups of multi-professionals.
10. Ability to work under pressure.
11. Clinical leadership.
12. Self-confidence; used to lead, involve and challenge others appropriately.
13. Ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines whilst paying attention to detail.
14. Develops new skills in response to emerging knowledge and techniques.
15. Influences the development of others through education and training.

Knowledge

1. Knowledge of current health policies and issues in nursing, midwifery, ODP and education.
2. Standards of professional practice.
3. Clinical & Quality Governance Frameworks and application.
4. Aware of Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust guidelines, policies and structures.
5. Aware of the Leeds Improvement Method.

Personal Attributes

1. Act as a positive role model.
2. Good self-motivation and able to motivate staff.
3. Assertiveness, influencing and persuasion skills.
4. Good communication skills both written and verbal.
5. Professional attitude.
6. Able to work on/under own initiative.
7. Ensures personal and professional behaviour and integrity at all times.
8. Compassionate and caring.
9. Flexibility, adaptable, capable of lateral thinking.
10. Positive approach to change.
11. Ability to monitor, maintain and improve service delivery.

Person SpecificationQualifications

• Registered Nurse / ODP (RN Adult for adult clinical areas or RN Child for children's areas).
• Recognised teaching/assessing qualification.
• Degree Level Education or evidence of working towards.

Skills & behaviours

• Compassionate and caring. Assertive courageous.
• Capable of lateral thinking. Motivator of self and others. Positive approach to change.
• Flexible, adaptable. Able to manage stress in self and others.

Other criteria

• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post (with reasonable adjustments if necessary), including clearance on blood borne viruses in compliance with Trust Policy.

Experience

• Significant experience in a junior leadership role eg Band 6 or equivalent.
• Clinical Experience within the specialty.
• Audit and standard setting.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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