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About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
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Specialty Clinical Educator
Accepting applications until: 11-Sep-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 11-Sep-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Wansbeck General Hospital
- Address
- Woodhorn LAne
- Town
- Ashington
- Postcode
- NE63 9JJ
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (secondment option for internal candidates)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Nutrition
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
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
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
Do you have a passion for teaching & education? Do you enjoy helping others in their roles to make a difference? Would designing & delivering an innovative education package interest you? If so, this role may be for you. We have an exciting opportunity for a full time, 12-month fixed term position for a Specialty Clinical Educator Post within the Nutrition & Dietetic Department.
This post will develop and deliver Trust-wide training focused on the safe insertion and care of all types of enteral feeding tubes. This will include education to support the admission and discharge of patients requiring enteral feeding to embed appropriate, high-quality care for our patients whilst supporting our staff to practice safely and confidently to the highest standard.
You will be based within the Nutrition & Dietetic Department but also link with the Transformation Team & Practice Education and Development Team in implementing this fundamental training package. This role would suit an experienced NMAHP, with an interest in nutrition.
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.
Please ensure you have prior approval from your current line manager, that a secondment agreement can be facilitated within your current department before applying
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Working as a core member of the team you will have responsibility for the overall continuing workforce development of staff. You will lead on the non-statutory and mandatory training needs within your speciality area. You will be responsible for the production and delivery of a training needs analysis plan in line with existing national guidance where relevant. You will be responsible for making regular assessments and recommendations based on these needs and guidelines. You will work alongside other specialities and professional groups to promote and maintain education and clinical development within the workforce.
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.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? 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, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To deploy an innovative approach to learning and development activities and act as an expert link with staff from other areas to share knowledge, best practice and expertise. To provide leadership, clinical supervision, coaching and training to clinical staff, develop and maintain effective links with other educators both internal and external to the organisation. To participate in monitoring systems by which the quality of care can be measured e.g. audit, benchmarking.
To provide complex analysis and recommendations on learning needs and plans and provide effective and honest feedback to staff. To deploy excellent verbal communication skills to motivate staff to change practice, developing a culture of high engagement where staff are empowered and entrusted to provide the best services and care for patients.
To work as part of the clinical team delivering high quality clinical care to patients and providing best practice advice, using specialty knowledge and skills on a regular basis. To make clear recommendations about practice to the senior nursing, midwifery and allied health professional team using a range of sources such as National documents, best practice examples Nationally and Internationally as well as own experience. In collaboration with the senior clinical team make effective use of patient experience data, complaints and incidents to improve the delivery of clinical care to patients. Contribute towards the development of policies, standard operating procedures and guidelines which are evidence-based.
You will require professional registration with HCPC or NMC together with Degree level knowledge, or equivalent, and / or experience, supplemented by relevant specialist knowledge to Masters level or equivalent experience. Post registration qualification relevant to specialty or equivalent experience and significant post registration experience and an ability to demonstrate clinical skills, knowledge, credibility and expertise in the specialty is required. A qualification in teaching, learning and assessing in clinical practice and significant experience of delivering training and education in the clinical setting is also required.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
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
Desirable criteria
- Leadership qualification
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Experience of networking at a regional and National level
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sian Podbur
- Job title
- Head of Nutrition and Dietetics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01670 564006
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