Job summary
- Main area
- AHP and NMC registrants
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 372-FSS2827
- Employer
- Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS TRust Cross-Site
- Town
- Huddersfield
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 31/07/2025
Employer heading
Neonatal Clinical Nurse Educator
NHS AfC: Band 7
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics.
We are committed to recruiting to our values. Leading One Culture of Care underpins our values by creating an environment, tone and behaviours across all parts of the Trust that are fundamentally rooted in compassionate care.
We are open to considering a wide range of flexible working arrangements. There are opportunities to flex the days of the week, hours and times of work and place of work including: part-time, job-share, flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home when appropriate. Please talk to us during the interview process to discuss any flexibility that you may require.
We received our Silver Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme which is helping actively promote SaBRE - Supporting Britain’s Reservists and Employers. This means that we provided its statement of intent to support all Defence personnel and we welcome application to work for us. Find out more - Why Choose CHFT?
Our Future Plans
The Department of Health and Social Care has awarded capital funding to invest in local health services at both Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. This is a significant investment and an opportunity to enhance services for our populations in Calderdale and Huddersfield and West Yorkshire for generations to come. To find out more, please visit https://future.cht.nhs.uk/
Job overview
We are seeking an experienced Neonatal nurse who is a dynamic and enthusiastic individual with a passion for education, staff and service development who can work well within a team and individually, if you have a desire for learning, personal development and supporting the continued development within Neonatal Services this is the role for you .
We are a Level 2 Neonatal Unit within the Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust and part of the Yorkshire and Humber Neonatal Network
Main duties of the job
• Working clinically the post holder will support healthcare practitioners to develop appropriate clinical patient safety knowledge and skills, with achievement of competencies.
• Ensure optimisation of resources for provision and development of clinical education
• Act as a clinical expert, visionary, role model and deliver the education and learning for all staff, in a variety of settings, including the clinical area, working alongside the staff.
• Use of a blended learning approach to ensure maximum benefit from learning opportunities
• Utilise effective methods of assessment, evaluation and impact of competence in clinical and patient safety education.
Working for our organisation
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Maximise the opportunity for inter-professional and interdisciplinary working to facilitate better Trust-wide clinical education.
• Ensure that all clinical education is conceptualized, commissioned and delivered around a centralised framework that maps across operational and workforce plans
• Ensure a skilled clinical workforce exists equipped with the necessary professional and clinical skills for the delivery of high-quality patient care, aligned to learning from incidents, RCAs and SIRIs
• Provide guidance to ensure the appropriate clinical skills are embedded into education and learning and those comply with professional body requirements, AEI accreditation process (where applicable) and are evidence based.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to develop robust mechanisms for tackling poor practice based on the principles of effective patient safety and governance.
• Liaise with the Yorkshire and Humber Neonatal Operational Delivery Network education team.
· Support staff during the completion of the Neonatal Foundation Programme and Neonatal Qualified in Speciality Course.
· Provide support to:
o Poor performers
o New starters
o All Non-Medical Registered and Un-registered Practitioners
o Staff undertaking academic study at AEI’s
o Staff who need to achieve competence following skills training
o assist in the development and maintenance of national initiatives related to education and continuing professional development such as Nursing Revalidation and clinical skills
• Maintain accurate and up to date records of learning events both formal and informal.
• To ensure compliance and implementation of Trust, local and national policies and procedures relating to resuscitation.
• To work with colleagues promoting good working relationships encouraging teamwork, motivation, innovation, and high standards of clinical practice.
• To be clinically competent in and also able to teach complex clinical skills, e.g. IV drug calculation and administration and advanced airway management.
• Provide specialist advice to multidisciplinary groups across all areas of the Trust, always ensuring the delivery of a high standard of care to patients with consideration of patient safety.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING
Essential criteria
- Recognised healthcare professional qualification plus qualified in speciality
- Recognised teaching / supervision/assessment skills
- Evidence of continued development
- Recognised teaching qualification or working towards
- NLS Qualification
Desirable criteria
- Professional nurse/midwifery advocate qualification
- Degree Qualification
- Evidence of leadership training
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a practice education role
- Significant experience of supporting pre and post registration learners
- Demonstrates commitment to practice education
- Evidence of mentoring/supervising/teaching students/staff in practice
- Experience of management/leadership
- Experience of managing a team or caseload
- Recent experience of teaching
- Ability to provide a strategic view on healthcare education
- Experience of partnership working
- Evidence of managing change/contributing to service development
- Experience of inter-professional and cross agency working
- Understanding and knowledge of curriculum design and development
- Knowledge of professional educational standards, and a working knowledge of the NHS and partner organisations
- Highly developed knowledge of current educational provision pertaining to health and social care
- Knowledge of local, regional and national policies pertaining to practice experience and education
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working across service/organisational boundaries
- Experience of inter-professional working
- Experience of undertaking audit and review
- Band 6 experience
- Project Management experience
- Experience of report writing
- Recruitment and selection experience
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal and written skills
- Excellent time management
- Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Demonstrates high level decision making across organisations
- An ability to store and retrieve complex information on a wide range of issues relating to practice experience
- Teaching, facilitation, and presentation skills
- Good information technology skills including use of Excel
- Ability to work without direct supervision.
- Able to exercise initiative and take independent actions
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
- Anne Harrop
- Job title
- Neonatal Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01422 224344
- Additional information
Laura Douglas
Deputy Director of Midwifery
Jo-ann Cornelly
Ward Manager
01422 224344
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