Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Education
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 35 hours per week
- Job ref
- 216-AJ-A7042113
- Employer
- University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospital Plymouth NHS Trust
- Town
- Plymouth
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Clinical Educator (Clinical Apprenticeships)
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and highly motivated individuals to apply for the post of Clinical Educator for Apprenticeships, Clinical Skills and Care Certificate within the Department of Professional Healthcare Education at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust.
This role is a great opportunity for an experienced registered nurse or registered healthcare professional with excellent interpersonal and clinical skills to support and coordinate the development of education programmes for staff new to care, those on apprenticeship journeys or supporting with clinical skills to support our staff to safely care for our patients.
They will coordinate educational activities and assessments of learning within the department, working in conjunction with clinical educators and managers throughout the Trust.
Experience of teaching and mentoring is essential with evidence of ongoing personal and professional development.
***Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***
Main duties of the job
Manage the delivery of the care certificate and clinical skills programme ensuring it is contemporary and responsive to organisational and patient pathway needs.
Co-ordinate the care certificate and clinical skills programme delivery, content, structure and clinical competency development.
Maintain a specialist knowledge base to ensure care certificate and clinical skills development for the organisation is evidence based.
Facilitate and lead the delivery of the clinical apprenticeship programmes liaising with educational providers and acting as the conduit between clinical practices.
Provide the educational support structure for clinical apprenticeships across the organisation.
Working for our organisation
We are a people business – where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COMMUNICATION WILL BE ELECTRONIC, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT REGULARLY. If you have any issues with applying online and need additional support including reasonable adjustments with the application process please contact the recruitment team on 01752 432100. We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants around less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. Please contact the recruiting manager to discuss this prior to your application submission. We commit to giving this full consideration in each case. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles, as diversity strengthens our teams. It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Facilitate the delivery of proactive and responsive apprenticeship training, which is compliant with National Apprenticeship standards and is achievable within clinical practice and the changing needs and environs of patient care.
Facilitate, evaluate and deliver the Clinical Skills Portfolio, maintaining contemporary programmes that meet the needs of the organisation
Facilitate the delivery of Care Certificate, which is an identified set of standards, designed by NHS England, that health and care professionals adhere to in their daily working life. Designed with the non-regulated workforce in mind, the Care Certificate gives everyone the confidence that health and care professionals have the same introductory skills, knowledge and behaviours to provide compassionate, safe and high-quality care and support in their own particular workplace setting.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered professional i.e.: NMC/HCPC/AHP
- First degree or equivalent qualification
- Training/education qualification (e.g. Certificate/Diploma in Education)
- Post Graduate Certificate in Education or willing to work towards
- Proven evidence of continuous professional development
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of working in a National Health Service provider unit
- Demonstrable Experience of managing learning and development projects and processes within a large organisation
- Demonstrable Extensive working knowledge of IT applications, Learning Management Systems and other systems (e.g. e-KSF) Data Collection audit & reporting
- Practical Demonstrable experience of the full training cycle: i.e. Identification of training needs, design & delivery of learning interventions, and experience of using evaluation models and approaches
- Demonstrable Experience in training delivery to a diverse range of adults
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jo Hickey
- Job title
- Clinical Apprenticeship Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01752437141
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