Overview
Lead clinical education within designated localities, ensuring training, supervision, and competency development are tailored to the specific needs of each neighbourhood population and workforce.
Responsibilities
* Work closely with community nursing teams, and wider MDT partners to identify learning priorities, skill gaps, and service pressures, shaping education plans that strengthen local delivery of care.
* Provide expert clinical support and visible presence across localities, offering real-time coaching, modelling best practice, and supporting staff with complex cases within their own communities.
* Develop and deliver locality-specific training programmes, ensuring they reflect local demographics, health inequalities, and service pathways.
* Support the implementation of evidence-based practice across neighbourhood teams, helping embed new clinical guidelines, quality initiatives, and innovative models of care.
* Facilitate reflective practice, supervision, and professional development for staff working within each locality, promoting a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
About the organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
Qualifications
* Provide expert clinical education, training, and competency assessment to community nursing staff, ensuring high-quality, evidence-based practice across services.
* Work alongside community nursing teams to identify learning needs, develop tailored education plans, and support staff in delivering safe, effective care.
* Deliver formal and informal teaching sessions, including induction, mandatory training, clinical skills development, and specialist competency programmes.
* Offer real-time clinical coaching and supervision in practice settings, supporting staff with complex cases and promoting reflective learning.
* Lead on the development, implementation, and evaluation of clinical guidelines, pathways, and best-practice standards within the specialty.
* Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, primary care, and locality-based partners to strengthen integrated working and shared learning.
* Use clinical audit, incident reviews, and quality improvement data to inform training priorities and drive continuous improvement.
* Support workforce development, including succession planning, preceptorship, and ongoing professional development for nurses at all levels.
* Maintain specialist knowledge and stay up to date with emerging evidence, ensuring training materials and practice guidance remain current.
* Contribute to service development by providing expert advice, participating in project work, and supporting innovation in community-based care.
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