Job summary
- Main area
- Education
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 234-24-C2988
- Employer
- Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital
- Town
- Norwich
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Educator - Practice Development and Education
NHS AfC: Band 6
At NNUH it is our privilege to provide healthcare to over one million people across Norfolk and surrounding areas. Our vision is to ‘provide the best care for every patient’, and if this inspires you and you share our values, we really want you to join our team.
NNUH is currently the busiest Trauma Unit in the East of England caring for almost 850 trauma patients annually many with complex care needs. We are enhancing our urgent and emergency care specialist services for patients with significant injuries as a result of trauma and have an ambition to become a Major Trauma Centre.
Our values support our vision and guide the behaviour of everything we do, these are:
People-focused
We look after the needs of our patients, carers and colleagues, to provide a safe and caring experience for all.
Respect
We act with care, compassion and kindness and value others’ diverse needs.
Integrity
We take an honest, open and ethical approach to everything we do.
Dedication
We work as one team and support each other to maintain the highest professional standards.
Excellence
We continuously learn and improve to achieve the best outcomes for our patients and our hospital.
Wish you were here? So do we.
We want all our staff to achieve a balance between work and personal life and understand how important flexible working can be. We welcome applications on a full or part time basis, various shift patterns and hybrid working, where roles allow.
At the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH), we know the benefits diversity can bring to our organisation such as creativity, innovation and compassion. All of which have a direct impact towards our staff and patient experience. We are committed to being a Hospital for All – being equitable and inclusive, and a place where all feel a sense of belonging. We therefore particularly encourage and welcome applications from candidates who are underrepresented in NNUH’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, people with diverse abilities and people within the LGBT+ community.
Job overview
Practice Development and Education are looking for enthusiastic, dynamic and creative individuals to join our team of clinical educators. In Practice Development and Education (PD&E) we celebrate diversity and welcome applications from individuals who represent the full spectrum of our community. The PD&E team support education and training across NNUH, including pre-registration students and apprentices, preceptorship, healthcare support workers, clinical skills, quality and risk, international recruitment and return to practice professionals. We currently have four opportunities in our team:
- One full time substantive Clinical Educator to teach a range of clinical skills, and support colleagues in practice in developing their clinical skills.
- One 30 hour substantive Clinical Educator to teach a range of clinical skills, and support colleagues in practice in developing their clinical skills.
Main duties of the job
The Clinical Educators will work under the direction of a Practice Development Nurse and the Practice Development & Education Department Lead in supporting learners in the workplace. For the first fixed term post the focus will be on the TNA role. This will involve supporting the recruitment of TNAs, as well as supporting them once they are on the programme. There will also be an expectation that this post holder will support other pre-registration learners in addition to the TNAs. For the second fixed term post, the post holder will be expected to offer support to pre-registration nursing and nursing associates and colleagues undertaking their preceptorship. The two substantive Clinical Skills Clinical Educator posts will require the successful candidates to be clinically competent in a range of clinical skills, and their role will be focusing on the teaching of clinical skills as well as working with colleagues in practice to help them to develop these skills. All four clinical educators will also be required to support all workstreams within Practice Development and Education, in addition to working in their specialist area outlined above.
Working for our organisation
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room
- Discounted gym memberships
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To be a visible proactive presence in the practice placement areas working clinically alongside learners to enable them to achieve their learning objectives
- To provide support for those assessing and supervising students/learners on a range of programmes.
- To support assessor/supervisors of pre-registration students and enable protected time for discussion and assessment.
- To deliver teaching sessions, including clinical teaching, on in-house programmes of study.
- To provide advice and guidance where there are performance issues with learners, working alongside learners and developing bespoke learning objectives.
- To promote new models of supervision and a coaching approach to learner support where this is achievable. To work with other key personnel in contributing to the audit of practice placements and maintenance of the audit cycle.
- To work with the line managers within the practice areas, offering support and advice.
- To contribute to effective partnership working between the practice placement areas and Practice Development & Education.
- To establish and explore strategies to enhance the clinical learning environment.
- To promote inter-professional learning amongst different student populations working with those who support the individual professions.
- To contribute to the development of policies and guidelines applicable to student/learner placements.
- To be involved with recruitment processes for pre and post-registration at local and regional HEIs.
- To be involved with recruitment of nurses with additional practice support needs e.g. international nurses, return to practice students and acute care refresher programme.
Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse on the appropriate part of the NMC register or clinical professional registered with the HCPC
- Supervisor and Assessor training or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Recent experience of working with students in an acute setting.
- Experience of presenting/teaching within a formal setting
Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of pre-registration nursing programmes and NMC standards relating to education
Attitude, aptitude
Essential criteria
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH’s PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Coral Drane
- Job title
- Practice Development & Education Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01603 286630
- Additional information
Felicity Thomas
Practice Development & Education Lead for Clinical Skills, Quality, Risk
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