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Specialty Clinical Educator - Diabetes

Job details
Posting date: 16 June 2025
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata per annum
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 16 July 2025
Location: North Shields, NE29 8NH
Company: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 7265749/319-7265749SC

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Summary

A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.


Diabetes Specialty Clinical Educator - Open toNurses, Midwives & AHPs. Full-time 12 month Secondment

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic highly skilled and motivated registered practitioner to join the Diabetic specialist Team as a Diabetic Clinical Educator. Our team is a large well established and supportive multi-disciplinary team offering holistic health care support to patients who have diabetes - Trust wide.

This post will suit candidates who thrive in roles which include variety, complexity and challenges alongside opportunities for growth. You must have a range of experience of working with people with a diabetes to enable you to upskill the workforce in developing their skills, knowledge and confidence in supporting people with a learning disability across both community and acute settings.

You are required to have excellent interpersonal and leadership skills and will need to be a highly motivated, committed practitioner who is passionate about delivering high quality education and guidance. You will provide expert assistance, support and exercise accountability as set out in the NMC /HCPC Code of Professional Conduct. The role will have a significant amount of innovation, quality improvement and pathway development. If you feel you have the above attributes, then we would look forward to receiving your application.

The main purpose of the Diabetes Clinical Educator role is to understand the barriers and challenges with current training offers and co-produce a sustainable, accessible and high-quality training offer to community and acute staff within Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust. Upskilling the workforce and providing ongoing learning for staff and health professionals who support people with diabetes to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe and accessible patient care.

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.

Job description

This post will work trust wide into both acute and community services across NMAHP to;
• Comprehensively map education provision across the service.
• Work with staff to identify learning needs and support opportunities and training to meet those needs.
• Develop and deliver on-going education and training packages.
• Provide high quality, education across the trust raising awareness in supporting people with a learning disability.
• Evaluate the impact of education on staff knowledge, skills and behaviours as well as patient care.
• Act as a clinical and professional role model to maintain and develop exceptional standards of care.
• Promote and foster a culture of education and clinical development with the workforce.
• Work alongside other specialities and professional groups to promote and maintain education and clinical development within the workforce.
• Role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.


This advert closes on Monday 30 Jun 2025

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