Employer Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Site Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Town Warrington
Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 16/09/2025 23:59
Interview date 29/09/2025
Clinical Educator (Band 6)
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join WHH as a Clinical Educator within our multi-professional Clinical Education Team. Our team plays a key role in delivering high-quality training in intravenous therapy, a wide range of clinical skills, preceptorship, and clinical induction, while also supporting positive learning environments across the organisation. We pride ourselves on being a cohesive, supportive, and forward-thinking team, dedicated to fostering professional growth and excellence in patient care.
It would be advantageous if you have experience in presenting and designing, implementing and evaluating education programmes.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for the planning and implementation of programmes of education and training to meet identified needs.
Provide support in the design and delivery of competency based clinical skills training for all clinical staff and learners.
Provide advice in clinical practice, collaborate and cooperate with other healthcare professionals to ensure up-to-date evidence based practice.
Support clinical staff in practice to perform comprehensive assessment of patient nursing needs, plan, implement and evaluate care delivery according to changing healthcare needs and varying levels of complexity.
Work collaboratively and co-operatively with the multidisciplinary team to develop services and quality care delivery.
Working for our organisation
Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.
Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.
Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.
A CQC-rated ‘good’ organisation with ‘outstanding’ features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.
Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full details for the job description, main responsibilities and person specification for the role are attached. Please ensure you read both of these documents.
Person specification
Experience
* Broad range of clinical experience in acute services and experience in specialty or related area.
* Experience of teaching and assessing in the clinical area.
* Participated in service development and implementation of change
Qualifications
* Recognised Teaching and assessing qualification (NMC Assessor Training acceptable)
* Hold or working towards a relevant degree.
* Hold or working towards a relevant Post Graduate Certificate in Education
Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
* Able to present information to professional groups.
* Able to adapt to meet differing learning styles/ preferences.
* Intermediate IT skills in word processing and spreadsheets.
* Able to analyse data and provide written reports.
* Able to influence and overcome resistance through application of good communication skills.
* Able to manage work with minimal supervision.
* Experienced in staff management, able to persuade and influence and handle conflict.
To be eligible for sponsorship, WHH holds a Sponsor Licence. There is a minimum set of criteria that must be met and not all roles are eligible. You can find more information on the Government website.
Please review your eligibility and the eligibility of the role before submitting your application.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
This vacancy is due to close on the advertised date. However, we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should we receive a high volume of suitable applications. We recommend submitting your application as soon as possible.
Name Gemma Garner
Job title Practice Educator Facilitator
Email address gemma.garner5@nhs.net
Telephone number 01925 662824
Additional information
I work across sites therefore emailing is preferred contact method.
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