Clinical Skills Lead

This Trust-wide post leads the clinical skills and simulation portfolio at Central London Community Health Trust, setting strategy and running delivery across community, specialist and bedded services. The work centres on designing, delivering and governing evidence-based clinical education, turning workforce needs, incidents and audit findings into competency frameworks and simulation learning. It carries line management of the clinical skills team and a remit to grow faculty development and scenario-based debriefing. Candidates need a Masters-level qualification, Independent Prescriber status and current UK registration.

What the job involves

• Lead the design, delivery, governance and evaluation of an evidence-based clinical skills programme
• Provide visible leadership to the clinical skills team
• Strengthen faculty and educator development
• Oversee education governance and assurance
• Use evaluation and improvement methods to demonstrate impact
• Translate workforce needs, service risks, incidents, audit findings and national priorities into education, competency frameworks and simulation learning
• Expand simulation, scenario-based learning, human factors and structured debriefing across the Trust
• Ensure learning is psychologically safe, inclusive and responsive to a diverse workforce
• Work with senior clinical and professional leaders, educators, subject-matter experts and external partners

What’s required

Qualifications

• Masters degree or equivalent
• Recognised teaching, learning, assessment or clinical education qualification
• Independent Prescriber qualification
• Evidence of continuing personal and professional development

Registration & licences

• Current UK registration as a healthcare professional relevant to the role

Experience

• Substantial post-registration clinical experience in complex healthcare environments, and senior leadership of clinical education, clinical skills, simulation or workforce development
• Designing, delivering and evaluating multidisciplinary education programmes, leading service change across organisational or professional boundaries, and line managing staff
• Developing competency frameworks, assessment approaches or education governance, and preparing reports, business cases and assurance information for senior governance forums
• Using simulation, structured debriefing, human factors or scenario-based education, and managing budgets, equipment or significant educational resources

Skills & knowledge

• Advanced knowledge of adult learning, clinical education, assessment and learning transfer, plus simulation, human factors and psychologically safe debriefing
• Strong understanding of patient safety, clinical governance, quality improvement and risk in education, and of professional and regulatory requirements for workforce education
• Understanding of accessibility, reasonable adjustments, neuro-inclusive and inclusive design, and of equitable education across dispersed community services
• Strategic leadership alongside operational grip, with communication, facilitation, influencing and negotiation skills, analysis of complex data and evidence-informed recommendations, and clear learning resources and…
• Prioritising competing demands and delivering through others, building partnerships across professions and external organisations, and confident use of Microsoft 365, learning-management systems and data-reporting tools

Other

• Compassionate, inclusive and visible leadership, acting with integrity and challenging unsafe or exclusionary practice, committed to safety and evidence-based practice, valuing multidisciplinary working and lived…
• Ability to travel across Trust sites and external partner locations as required

Nice to have

• Formal simulation faculty, debriefing or human-factors qualification or training
• Leadership or management qualification
• Research, publication, conference presentation or formal quality-improvement activity
• Experience of working in adult and children's settings
• Knowledge of procurement, equipment governance or learning-facility management

What’s offered

• Competitive employment package
• Support for personal and professional development

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