Clinical Educator

**Job Description**:
**Job Title**:Clinical Educator - Nursing

**Posting Start Date**:30/04/2025

**Job Id**:1047

**School/Department**:School of Allied Hlth Prof, Nurs & Midwf

**Work Arrangement**:Part Time (On site)

**Contract Type**:Fixed-term

**Salary per annum (£)**:£38,249 - £46,735

**Closing Date**:29/05/2025

The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities, a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more.

From young people's health to relationship-centred care, our work is world renowned. Our courses attract students and apprentices of all ages and backgrounds, from all over the world. We're a welcoming and sociable community, dedicated to nurturing our students' talents and to upholding the core values of the NHS in supporting the highest standards of excellence and professionalism through our education and research.

We are looking to appoint a Clinical Educator who will contribute to the delivery of high-quality teaching of theory and practice to the Pre-Registration Nurse Degree programmes. The Clinical Educator post works with student nurses within their clinical placement settings, on study days and works closely with clinical partners as required, to ensure an optimal student experience.

**Main duties and responsibilities**
- Work in Partnership with health and social care providers to ensure placement areas are appropriately prepared to NMC standards to receive and supervise student nurses.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of the mechanism for assessing the clinical skills/competence of student nurses in conjunction with partner organisations.
- Promote evidence-based practice.
- Act as a role model to our students and be a resource for advice, support and guidance.
- Work with health and social care providers to ensure the clinical governance processes encompass measures to support the education of student nurses.
- Develop effective networks with other health and social care providers, for sharing information expertise, and good practice.
- Act in accordance with requirements of the NMC professional registration body.
- Undertake professional development opportunities in order to maintain professional registration.
- Ensure and promote the maintenance of a safe, clean and secure working environment for our students.
- Supervise and maintain accurate records using partner organisations’ documentation and electronic staff records (ESR) where required.
- Raise and escalate concerns regarding any issues with the students as per University and health and social care providers policies.
- Undertake, and report on the evaluation of placement areas.
- Maintain accurate records relating to engagement with students.
- Facilitate and deliver education within both the university and health and social care provider environments.
- Take the lead on the preparation and delivery of placement modules in conjunction with the Placement Lead
- Contribute towards student recruitment by participating in applicant interviews and other recruitment activities.
- Support staff to deliver evidence-based practice and research activities to further enhance patient care.
- Support and guide Practice Assessors and Practice Supervisors in the workplace ensuring continuity in assessment and addressing inconsistencies.
- Contribute to the development and evaluation of educational programmes and placements to ensure clinical areas are able to achieve and maintain an accredited educational learning environment for all students, registered and unregistered staff.
- Provide effective leadership with regard to the development of student nurses.
- As a member of staff you will be encouraged to make ethical decisions in your role, embedding the University sustainability strategy into your working activities wherever possible.
- Carry out other duties, commensurate with the grade and remit of the post

**Person Specification**

Essential criteria

**Further Information**

**Grade: 7**

**Salary: £38,249 - £46,735 pro rata**

**Work arrangement**:Part-time (28 hrs pw)

**Duration**: 01.05.25 - 24.12.26

**Line manager**:Professional Lead for Nursing

**Direct reports**:NA

**Next steps in the recruitment process**

**Our vision and strategic plan**

We are the University of Sheffield. This is our vision: sheffield.ac.uk/vision ().

**What we offer**
- A minimum of 41**days annual leave including bank holiday and closure days (pro rata) with the ability to purchase more.
- Flexible working opportunities, including hybrid working for some roles.
- Generous pension scheme.
- A wide range of discounts and rewards on shopping, e