Speciality Clinical Educator

NHS AfC: Band 7

• Clinical Informatics
• NHS AfC: Band 7
• Fixed term: 12 months (To be offered as internal secondment opportunity)
• • Full time
  • Flexible working
• 319-7550791JN-HAS

• Northumbria Manufacturing and Innovation Hub
• Seaton Delaval
• £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
• Yearly
• 16/11/2025 23:59

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes.  If you use AI, and it poses a risk  to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process. 

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen has arisen for a Band 7 Specialty Clinical Educator to join Chief Clinical Information Officer Team (CCIO).

This is a new role funded to build capacity, confidence, and digital capability in the NMAHP workforce. The role will equip staff with the skills needed to navigate the pace of digital change, optimise use of clinical and non-clinical systems, and support leadership in delivering efficient, data-driven care.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated clinician who can demonstrate the ability to lead, deliver training and motivate staff.

You will be a team player with established skills in communication.  You will have the ability to engage  with all members of the multi-disciplinary team.  You will be expected to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, along with the ability to sensitively manage change. 

Please note, for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

Working as a core member of the team you will have responsibility for the delivery of accessible, relevant and innovative digital training and support for staff, beginning with those in clinical leadership roles, using a blended model of engagement from bite sized teaching to full day sessions, walkarounds, drop in sessions and digital life hacks. Your scope of work will include:

· Develop and deliver training for clinical leaders first, with roll-out to wider NMAHP teams.

· Co-design training modules and quick guides with end users.

· Identify and support digital champions in clinical areas.

· Offer process mapping support to enhance digital workflows.

· Address common queries and build capacity for self-help and peer learning.

You will be responsible for making regular assessments and recommendations based on these needs and guidelines.

You will act as a clinical and professional role model to maintain and develop exceptional standards of clinical care. You will promote and foster a culture of education and clinical development within the workforce. You will uphold high standards of practice development and clinical supervision.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Deploy an innovative approach to learning and development activities.

Act as an expert link with staff from other areas to share knowledge, best practice and expertise.

Able to present highly complex or sensitive information to both individuals and groups.

Demonstrate self-awareness in relation to personal impact whilst working alongside teams and individuals, fostering trust and respect.

Contribute to relevant meetings ensuring effective communication of educational initiatives and sharing best practice.

Be Adaptable and flexible.

Provide complex analysis and recommendations on learning needs and plans where necessary.

Provide effective and honest feedback, which may be sensitive in nature, to staff and teams. Deploy excellent verbal communication skills to motivate staff to change practice.

Provide leadership, clinical supervision, coaching and training to clinical staff.

Demonstrate empathy, reassurance and excellent interpersonal skills when working with learners in practice on performance and achievement of competencies.

Contribute to a climate where staff appropriately question and challenge practice and where decision-making can be openly debated and discussed.

Develop and maintain effective links with other educators both internal and external to the organisation.

Must be able to demonstrate the English language proficiency level required for this post.

Ability to set realistic targets and meet deadlines.

Effectively plans and delivers a range of complex projects, educational programs and assessments and adjust to the needs of the trust.

Effectively use evaluations to adjust educational programme, content and delivery.

Develop lead and co-ordinate clinical workshops, study days and training programmes for a variety of topics including complex clinical skills.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Professional registration with NMC/HCPC/GPC (depending on the role advertised)
• Degree level of knowledge or equivalent level of knowledge and / or experience, supplemented by specialist knowledge relevant to the role to masters level or equivalent experience
• Registered mentor
• Post registration qualification relevant to specialty or equivalent experience
• Qualification in teaching, learning and assessing in clinical practice and significant experience of delivering training and education in the clinical setting
• IT skills to produce educational resources, reports and data

Desirable criteria

• Trained clinical supervisor
• Leadership qualification
• Trained coach
• Non-medical prescribing

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Significant post registration experience and ability to demonstrate clinical skills, knowledge, credibility and expertise in the specialty.
• Experience of delivering clinical education and development activities
• Evidence of own continuing professional development and its application in the clinical setting to ensure ongoing clinical credibility as an educator
• Personal resilience in the face of challenge
• To lead, inspire and motivate others to high performance by agreeing clear goals and objectives, providing support and guidance and creating opportunities for development
• To contribute to the development of a culture of high engagement, where staff are empowered and entrusted to provide the best services and care for patients
• To promote and facilitate innovation and continuous improvement to deliver better services for service users and patients
• Accountability for the leadership of post holders staff / teams / departments

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of human factors and how they influence clinical practice
• Experience of networking at a regional and National leve
• Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
• Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Certificate of Sponsorship

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post.  The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

Apply online now

Further details / informal visits contact

• Name
• Andrea Hall
• Job title
• Chief Nurse Information Officer
• Email address
• andrea.hall@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
• Telephone number
• 07810832144

List jobs with Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Nursing and Midwifery or all sectors