Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Brompton Hospital Town London Salary £56,276 - £63,176 per annum inc HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 11/01/2026 23:59 Interview date 28/01/2026
Band 7 Practice Educator Princess Alexandra Ward, Royal Brompton
NHS AfC: Band 7
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world‑leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world‑renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world‑leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity at the Royal Brompton Hospital and are seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our team as a Clinical Practice Educator.
As a Clinical Practice Educator, you will play a crucial role in supporting the professional development and education of our nurses in a 35‑bedded cardiothoracic surgical ward, at the Royal Brompton Hospital.
We are looking for a driven individual with Cardiothoracic experience, who will share and respect our values. We are seeking someone who is engaging, enthusiastic and organised. You will be an autonomous individual who will be required to build strong links with colleagues from the Education Team and MDT, in order to develop effective working practices in line with your role.
We have a caring and supportive team, dedicated to the continuing delivery of safe and excellent care which is supported by our exceptional patient feedback.
You will;
* Ensure that education and training meets the specific needs of the specialist area.
* Promote an environment that encourages learning, teaching and the development of all staff, including those undergoing training.
* Contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of the Education and Training within the specialty.
Closing Date: Midnight 11th January 2026 Interview Date: 28th January 2026
Main duties of the job
* To provide clinical expertise and work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
* To manage the clinical skills development and the provision of co‑ordinated training and education to meet service requirement.
* To work with clinical staff to identify appropriate learning strategies to develop both role and service development.
* Responsible for ensuring educational/training resources are optimised and used effectively within individual clinical environments and service line.
* To provide the necessary infrastructure to develop a positive learning environment to ensure all learners are supported in practice.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best‑known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton, and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high‑quality care, clinical excellence, research, and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients with heart and lung, cancer at the Royal Brompton Hospital.
Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment available anywhere in the world.
Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world gaining Royal Brompton and Harefield an international reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment, and research.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities, charitable bodies and GPs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* To provide sound clinical leadership and develop support mechanisms for sharing good practice within the Ward/Department and Trust wide.
* Along with fellow clinical practice educators, ward managers and matrons, monitor the quality of nursing care and action audit information to achieve agreed standards.
* Maintain study leave records and particularly monitor mandatory training compliance.
* Work clinically with staff according to their needs in the cardiothoracic services unit.
* Co‑ordinate induction and orientation programmes with the Ward Managers.
* Ensuring that provision of care is in accordance with the Trust’s Policies & procedures.
* In conjunction with the staff team, to lead in developing, implementing, evaluating, and maintaining a Ward/Departmental ethos and a standard approach to the delivery of excellent nursing care.
* To act as patient advocate in line with the NHS plan and to actively apply in depth knowledge of holistic/socio‑economic and cultural aspects of the care to clients within your specific speciality, acting as a role model and resource for patients, relatives, and staff.
* Assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care, actively seeking evidence‑based practice which will support clinical outcomes as appropriate.
* Ensure that nursing documentation is maintained to the Trust standard (including electronic records) and implement nursing audit of records to measure and evaluate care planning.
* To be aware of and champion current trends and developments in nursing and in the NHS and be responsible for taking the lead in the continuing professional development of ward/departmental staff and self.
* To lead on the implementation of the Trust’s framework for Clinical Governance within the Cardiothoracic Services Unit.
* In conjunction with the staff and the ward managers develop a mechanism for setting goals and bench‑marking standards of care.
* Develop tools to improve the quality of the service and co‑ordinate clinical services across the Ward/Department.
* To take the lead in ensuring compliance to Trust policies and procedures among the multi‑disciplinary team.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse
* ENB course or equivalent relevant to area
* Has attained or is working towards a Degree/Certificate/Diploma in management/professional nursing issues
Experience
* Extensive Cardiothoracic experience
* Experience of staff management
* Knowledge of people management
Skills
* Proven Leadership skills
* Proven teaching & assessing skills
* Ability to manage difficult situations effectively.
* Able to prioritise and meet deadlines
* Demonstrate the ability to compile complex written information
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on‑boarding process.
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Name Denise Breen Job title Matron for EICU, EHDU & Princess Alexandra Ward Email address denise.breen2@nhs.net Telephone number 0207 351 82521
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