Community Clinical Educator

The closing date is 21st Dec 2025

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for Community Clinical Educator roles across locality teams based in Southampton. As a team the Community Clinical Educators will deliver clinical education to staff within Community Nursing at a locality level across Southampton.

We are looking for a registered nurse who has strengths in teaching and the development of others with background clinical skills in Palliative Care CSCI devices, catheter insertion, PICC line care, compression bandaging and wound management. Excellent interpersonal skills are essential in this role as are the organisational values around compassion and fairness. We are committed to providing a better outcome for our residents and with your help we will be able to release our full potential.

This is a part time role working 30 hrs per week to include weekends on a rota basis 1:4 -1:5 to support staff with competencies.

Place of work will be Bitterne Health Centre, Thomas Lewis House and Oakley Road all within Southampton.

Only open to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to: Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare FT, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton FT, South Central Ambulance Service, Isle of Wight NHS FT or Hampshire Hospitals FT.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

The Community Clinical Educator is a key role within the skill mixed, Community Nursing Service in Southampton. As part of the Community Clinical Educator team within this specialist service, the Clinical Educator will work closely with the Community Clinical Educator Lead, Integrated Service Matrons & Clinical Managers to ensure the delivery of high quality nursing care as part of a safe, comprehensive & sustainable Community Nursing service & relevant integrated services. They will lead on training, clinical skills & the education/development of all clinical staff within the service.

To support all clinical staff, registrants & non-registrants, within integrated services, primarily Community Nursing Teams, to become effective, competent, autonomous and safe practitioners as appropriate for their role.

To be part of the dynamic Learning & Development Education Team responsible for delivering training, guidance, support & career development for the Community Nursing Team.

Working alongside registered nurses within Community Nursing, to assess clinical competence & provide clinical supervision & expert knowledge to ensure the delivery of safe, proactive & compassionate care. Enabling clinical staff to manage risk, optimising required support a patient receives to remain in home environment & reduce avoidable hospital admissions.

To support with completion of competency sign off for clinical staff, to enable the optimum use of resources & continuity of high-quality service delivery.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job description

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Relevant post graduate degree or demonstrable equivalent clinical experience
• Current NMC registration
• Level 3 Teaching & Training Qualification, or willing to complete

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.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact:

Ruby Nandra

Pay scheme

Agenda for Change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£ to £ Yearly

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-Time

Reference number

348-SSW-9904

Job locations

Bitterne Health Centre

Commercial Street

Southampton

Hampshire

SO18 6BT

Oakley Road

Millbrook

Southampton

Hampshire

SO16 4GX

Thomas Lewis House

236 Empress Road

Southampton

Hampshire

SO14 0JY

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