Clinical Educator

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust (QEH) is seeking a Clinical Educator to join the Education Faculty. This is a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate to provide education support to the clinical learning environments.

As a Clinical Educator, you will support the quality of the clinical learning environment for learners, including Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals, by providing support, educational input and development activities for staff, supervisors, assessors and learners within pre-registration programmes. You will encourage the development of a learning culture where both education and lifelong learning are seen as integral to clinical practice and will positively contribute to the development of a workforce fit for purpose.

Main duties of the job:

• Model high professional standards of care and promote a culture of learning, to provide professional and clinical practice training.
• Be a visible practice presence in the clinical learning environments within the urgent care settings providing support to learners to enable them to achieve their learning objectives.
• Provide support to those assessing and supervising staff/students/learners on a range of programmes.
• Assist supervisors, assessors, practice educators and departmental managers to facilitate the integration of theory and practice within the clinical environment for a variety of learners.
• Maintain accurate records of training, assessment and support provided, and provide reports as requested.
• Assist staff with access to supervisor and educator training.
• Deliver teaching sessions on a variety of clinical programmes.
• Support trust wide clinical training needs.
• Provide opportunities for professional development.

About us:

There has never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We are working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital and we are also carrying out one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we have ever undertaken. Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond. At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs. We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as 'Good', and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships. We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approximately 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome.

Job responsibilities:

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information about the job role.

Person Specification:

Qualifications/training and professional development:

• Registered Nurse on the appropriate part of the NMC register or clinical professional registered with the HCPC.
• Supervisor and assessor training or equivalent.
• Degree in relevant field.
• Postgraduate certificate in education or equivalent.

Experience:

• Significant post registration experience, some of which be at senior band 5 or band 6 in an acute hospital setting.
• Recent experience of working with students in an acute setting.

Skills, abilities, and knowledge:

• Confident and calm attitude with an ability to work under pressure.
• Advanced Microsoft Office Skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook).
• Ability to work autonomously setting own targets and measuring performance against these targets.

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.

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time

Reference number: 426-152-26CC