Clinical Educator
| Posting date: | 02 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £39,340 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 11 July 2025 |
| Location: | Taunton, Somerset |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | St Margaret's Hospice Care |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
St Margaret’s Hospice Care has a fantastic opportunity for a Clinical Educator to join their team. This role is based in Taunton. You will join us on a part time, permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £29,770.72 per annum for 28 hours per week (based on a full-time salary of £39,340).
You won’t just be joining a fantastic team – you’ll be part of a welcoming, community minded charity. Our mission is to provide excellent specialist palliative care for patients and support to their families. Everyone here contributes and has a part to play towards our goal. If you speak to any of our staff or volunteers, they will tell you how the patient is at the heart of everything they do. So, if you’re looking for a role where you can really make a difference, working as part of a supportive team, we could be a perfect match.
Working across the whole hospice, you will take the lead in clinical skills education and all other areas of clinical learning.
You will play a vital role in:
Creating a supportive learning environment – Contribute to building a highly skilled workforce, enable learners to become skilled practitioners, and advocate for the best end of life care in Somerset.
Building a skilled workforce - Support clinical staff of all grades and disciplines to achieve their professional objectives, bridging the gap between theory to practice.
Developing the clinical workforce of the future – Take the lead on upskilling staff and ensuring that excellent care is maintained.
Your day to day job will involve:
- Working with clinical teams lead and deliver a programme of clinical skills training
- Planning and delivering training for staff and external health care professionals
- Supporting students on placements across the hospice
- Evaluating learners’ progress and performance
- Actively contributing content to our new learning management system and supporting with its development and maintenance
- Contributing to innovation in learning e.g., development of virtual reality
To be successful in the role you will need to:
- Be a Registered Nurse
- Have significant experience of teaching and education in a health care setting
- Have experience facilitating and delivering high quality training courses
- Be able to understand the broad education context in health care currently
- Be responsive to training and education needs of the organisation and be aware of quality and compliance requirements
- Understand the need for innovation in education and be happy to lead in that space
You won’t just be joining a fantastic team – you’ll be part of a welcoming, community minded charity. Our mission is to provide excellent specialist palliative care for patients and support to their families. Everyone here contributes and has a part to play towards our goal. If you speak to any of our staff or volunteers, they will tell you how the patient is at the heart of everything they do. So, if you’re looking for a role where you can really make a difference, working as part of a supportive team, we could be a perfect match.
Working across the whole hospice, you will take the lead in clinical skills education and all other areas of clinical learning.
You will play a vital role in:
Creating a supportive learning environment – Contribute to building a highly skilled workforce, enable learners to become skilled practitioners, and advocate for the best end of life care in Somerset.
Building a skilled workforce - Support clinical staff of all grades and disciplines to achieve their professional objectives, bridging the gap between theory to practice.
Developing the clinical workforce of the future – Take the lead on upskilling staff and ensuring that excellent care is maintained.
Your day to day job will involve:
- Working with clinical teams lead and deliver a programme of clinical skills training
- Planning and delivering training for staff and external health care professionals
- Supporting students on placements across the hospice
- Evaluating learners’ progress and performance
- Actively contributing content to our new learning management system and supporting with its development and maintenance
- Contributing to innovation in learning e.g., development of virtual reality
To be successful in the role you will need to:
- Be a Registered Nurse
- Have significant experience of teaching and education in a health care setting
- Have experience facilitating and delivering high quality training courses
- Be able to understand the broad education context in health care currently
- Be responsive to training and education needs of the organisation and be aware of quality and compliance requirements
- Understand the need for innovation in education and be happy to lead in that space
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