Overview
Practice Educator
Band 6 - £38,682 - £46,580
Flexible hours - up to 29 per week
Permanent
Responsibilities
Are you an HCPC registered Allied Health Professional looking for an exciting and challenging role working as part of a proactive and forward-thinking team? Do you have a passion for facilitation and strive to be part of a team which creates a workforce delivering excellent clinical care as well as valuing colleagues and learners and supporting their career progression?
We are pleased to offer a permanent opportunity for a highly motivated individual to work across Locala as part of the Professional Development Support Team.
You will report to the Professional Development Support Clinical Lead and work closely with members of the Professional Development Support Team to support provision and delivery of clinical education and development activities for our clinical workforce (nurses, allied health professionals, visiting students and learners) in a range of practice settings.
Developing and maintaining high quality education, learning and development is one of our key priorities and the team play a key role in ensuring that these standards are met. You will champion the Locala clinical career pathways, advocating for clinical colleagues and students to achieve their potential, contributing to workforce development and maintenance of motivated clinical colleagues who deliver excellent standards of care.
You will achieve this by facilitating the delivery of approved programmes to support new and existing clinical colleagues and support development and delivery of clinical education for nursing and allied health professional learners on placement in Locala. Being a proactive role model for the supervision of learners is an integral part of daily clinical practice and you will monitor and ensure full use of available placement capacity to support learners across Locala.
The successful candidate will require strong, effective communication and interpersonal skills, experience of leadership and a drive for innovation and improvement, in return we can offer a supportive team structure and a commitment to your own professional development, for example enhancing your skills in facilitating training using a range of formats and in a variety of settings (including face to face and online).
This post is open to HCPC registrants.
Find out more about Locala through our Thrive Strategy
For full details of the role please see Job Description & Person Specification
For Further information contact, Ella Cleve at ella.cleve@locala.org.uk
Closing date - 17th September 2025
Interviews week commencing 29th September 2025
We reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the stated date should we receive sufficient applications
About us
Here at Locala we are part of the community and have often cared for generations within the same family and continue to be part of the NHS family also delivering care under the same ethos.
Locala Health and Wellbeing embraces diversity and inclusion and encourages applicants from people from all backgrounds with our ambition to have a workforce that represents the wider communities we live and work within, which you can support us to achieve.
We are an organisation that celebrates and values the individuality of our colleagues lived experiences and can adapt accordingly, recognising the value inclusivity brings when delivering equitable, high quality healthcare to our local communities. Where everyone feels valued, has the ability to develop, has flexible working opportunities, with a sense of belonging, supported by our Inclusivity Groups.
“Locala is a ‘Disability Confident’ employer and as such any disabled applicants who meets all the essential criteria are guaranteed to be invited to the assessment process.”
Benefits
* Flexible working - We are committed to supporting our colleagues to have a good work-life balance and welcome conversations about flexible working wherever possible.
* Generous pension – We offer a generous, defined contribution, pension scheme with matched contribution + 2% up to a maximum of 8%
* Refer a Friend Scheme – If you know a friend or family member who works at Locala on a substantive contract, you may be able to take advantage of our Refer a Friend Scheme. You both could receive a reward of £500 each, after you have successfully started your role with us.
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