Overview
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Neonatal Lead Clinical Educator to join the Neonatal team. The closing date is 21 October 2025.
An opportunity has arisen for an individual to join the Neonatal team in the role of Lead Clinical Educator at Chesterfield Royal Hospital. The role is key to planning and delivering a clear education and development strategy for Neonatal staff, measuring effectiveness against local and National standards through joint working with key partners.
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 to assess, evaluate, and measure the impact of competence on clinical care and patient safety.
Collaborate with wider Trust and ODN Education Teams to optimise the opportunity for inter-professional and multi-disciplinary working. Ensure that all clinical education is conceptualized and delivered around a centralised framework that maps across operational and workforce plans. Support the development of a skilled clinical workforce, equipped with the necessary professional and clinical skills for the delivery of high-quality patient care, aligned to learning from incidents, RCA\'s, SIs and Quality improvement projects.
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.
About us
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a well performing Foundation Trust serving a population of around 441,000 across the Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, North Amber Valley, High Peak and North East Derbyshire districts. With a workforce of around 3,800 staff and good financial control, currently operating with a positive financial surplus and was recently rated "Good" by the CQC.
We are committed to working with our partners in health and social care to deliver long term financial sustainability and resilience in our performance to ensure we provide high quality services and excellent patient care.
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for the full qualifications, skills and experience required for this post.
Person Specification
Skills
* 1st Level Registered Nurse or Registered Midwife & Post registration Qualification in Neonatology
* Current NLS Certification
* Complaints management
* Emergency planning
Experience
* Leadership or Management training
* Knowledge of audit and service improvement
* Working knowledge of the incident process
Skills
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills & IT
* Experience of managing change
Personal
* Adaptable to meet service needs
* Professional appearance & approach
Demonstrates our Proud to CARE Values
* Compassion, Ambition, Respect, Encouragement
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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