Practice Educator in Sutton

We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Practice Educator to support the growing workforce within the West Wing Clinical Research Centre (WWCRC). This role will lead on education, clinical competency, and workforce development across the unit, supporting staff delivering increasingly complex oncology clinical trials. The successful candidate will coordinate induction and onboarding programmes, deliver teaching and clinical training, support competency assessment, and contribute to improving staff experience, retention, and professional development.

Main duties of the job:

• A key aspect of the role will be working closely with clinical research teams, pharmacy, and other multidisciplinary stakeholders to ensure a coordinated and consistent approach to service delivery across the unit.
• Applicants should have substantial oncology experience, excellent communication and leadership skills, and a strong interest in education and clinical research.
• This is an exciting opportunity to influence and support the continued growth and development of a specialist clinical research workforce.

Working for our organisation:

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals – one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey – as well as a Medical Day-care Unit in Kingston Hospital.

At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.

At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• Demonstrate clinical practice expertise in drug development by working alongside nurses on the WWCRC.
• Assess the development needs of staff nurses and with the Ward sister of WWCRC write a professional development plan to enable them to gain clinical competence in cancer setting and increase their awareness of the evidence underpinning practice and how to use it in their daily work.
• Maintaining personal clinical competence, credibility and professional development in line with the NMC requirements.
• Participating in the Clinical Education Team meetings.
• Participating in interviewing for recruitment activities as required.
• Supporting other members of the Clinical Education team in the development of newly qualified nurses within the Trust.

Person specification:

• Post registration oncology qualification at degree level.
• Proven experience as a clinical trials nurse in the area of drug development.
• Experience in supervising/facilitating students in practice.
• Previous teaching and research experience.
• Ability to communicate well with the multidisciplinary team.
• Confident and articulate.
• Committed to personal and professional development.
• Ability to make decisions, organise and prioritise.
• Ability to introduce change.
• Able to work unsupervised.
• Understanding of evidence based practice.
• Ability to communicate implementation of evidence based practice to others.
• Ability to work flexible hours as required to meet service needs.
• Ability to work across sites if required.

The Royal Marsden values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.

All applicants will be contacted by email to the address supplied on your application. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly and to ensure that email filters are set to allow our emails.

Flu Vaccination – What We Expect of our Staff:

At The Royal Marsden we have an immune compromised patient population who we must protect as much as we can against the flu virus. Each year, seasonal flu affects thousands of people in the UK. Occurring mainly in winter, it is an infectious respiratory disease capable of producing symptoms ranging from those similar to a common cold, through to very severe or even fatal disease.

The wellbeing of our staff and patients is of the upmost importance to us, and it is the expectation of The Royal Marsden that all patient-facing staff have an annual flu vaccination, provided free of charge by the Trust.

Employer certification / accreditation badges:

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.