Clinical Educator - L50 in Leeds

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 within the Children's Nursing Education Team within the Paediatric Specialty L50 for a substantive post. The focus of this role will be driving quality and service improvement within the Leeds Children's Hospital (LCH) through education, mandatory training, priority training and professional development education. The applicant should possess excellent organisational skills and be highly motivated with the ability to develop and implement strategy to achieve this.

The postholder would be responsible for overseeing and facilitating induction training and annual update training for new starters and existing staff including all Registered Nurses, Registered Nursing Associates and Non-Registered clinical facing staff. They will provide quality assurance of teaching content, competency packages and online learning, and keep an audit trail of training provided across LCH. A broad level of knowledge and experience of Children’s Specialty is required to support the education delivery for L50, including evidence of leadership in a clinical setting and the ability to work collaboratively with all teams throughout Leeds Children's Hospital.

Why you should join our Team: The Leeds Children's Hospital is one of the UK’s largest specialist Children’s Hospitals that provides acute tertiary services for Children and Young People across the Yorkshire and Humber region. We host 27 Medical and Surgical Specialties across our 16 inpatient wards in addition to our Paediatric Critical Care Service, Children’s Medical and Surgical Day Case Unit, Children’s Assessment Unit and Children’s Outpatient Department. We are a specialist regional centre for Liver and Renal Transplantation, Complex Children’s Cancer Treatment, Neurosurgery and Congenital Cardiac Surgery.

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 through delivery of our multi‑year goals and strategic priorities. Central to it all is The Leeds Way – our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.

What you will bring to the role: You will have knowledge of national standards, policies and the ways in which these will influence nursing education in the future. You will work independently and present creativity when planning and preparing education, manage risk in line with Leeds Teaching Hospitals operational targets, and ensure regulatory compliance through training and education. You will demonstrate the ability to create and sustain an innovative culture of education and learning in clinical practice. The successful candidate will have leadership experience in the practice setting and possess excellent organisational and communication skills.

Additional responsibilities include working with the Lead Nurse for Children’s Education and Lead Nurse for Quality in responding to clinical audits, incidents, and service improvement to ensure patient and staff safety. You will be proactive and motivated to drive change within the wider MDT, and collaborate with the Children’s Education Team across LCH to instigate further training and education required for existing staff through clinical skills training and implementation of surge training annually.

Requirements: A recognised teaching/assessment qualification (e.g. PAPP, SLIPs or mentorship) and significant experience working clinically in LCH, with an understanding of how the service runs. Experience in education and training is desirable; the candidate will have the opportunity to bring their own ideas to improve education and staff development across LCH.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.