EMRT Network Practice Educator - Secondment | University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 15 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 October 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE1 5WW |
| Company: | University Hospitals of Leicester |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7356792/358-7356792-CHU |
Summary
Are you ready for a challenge? Are you keen to proactively contribute to the education and development of your profession, ensuring evidence underpins all activities? This might be of interest to you.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Regional Band 7 Practice Radiographer to lead a Practice Educator Project to join .
We are seeking an experienced Radiographer who is dynamic and proactive with a substantial post graduate experience of effective supervision, clinical education and training, mentoring and training assessment skills within Radiotherapy with proven leadership skills. We can support your travel and and planned activity costs to effectively deliver this project.
With your passion for service development and expertise you will join us to deliver inclusive, high quality, effective and outcome focused activities for our expanding group of undergraduate and apprenticeships students.
Key goals:
1.Supporting common learning gaps across the region for students, apprentices, newly qualified and existing Therapeutic Radiographers (greatest need/benefit)
2.Create and evaluate a regional approach to learning gaps
3.Co-ordinate with existing PE’s and attend open days/schools/colleges to promote the profession
4.Support the collation of feedback data from self attended and PE attended events
General duties
• To support excellent communication flow between Universities and EM trusts to ensure a seamless training process between the academic and clinical components.
• To support student rosters with local teams and the university to ensure effective placement and maximising the clinical opportunities. This will be in line with University learning objectives per year group.
• To work with the UHL student liaison staff and wider clinical educational team as required.
• To encourage a learning culture amongst staff in the EM supporting and helping coordinate CPD based activities.
• To work with the University based educators and meet both formally and informally as required
• To understand Apprenticeship process and work with managers to identify opportunities
• To ensure the quality of teaching in the clinical placement is evaluated, maintained and improved when required.
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We have four primary goals:
• high-quality care for all,
• being a great place to work,
• partnerships for impact, and
• research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
• we are compassionate,
• we are proud,
• we are inclusive, and
• we are one team
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacancies/
This is a Practice Educator Project Delivery role with responsibilities both to Apprentices, Bsc/Msc students, newly qualified staff and existing staff.
The post-holder will be expected to assimilate training requirements, coordinate activity, identify funding streams and work with University colleagues, local practice educators, trust educational teams and heads of Radiotherapy.
The post holder will be expected to be familiar with apprenticeship, undergraduate and post graduate training processes.
The post holder will be expected to develop and deliver training as required to all levels of trainees identified.
This advert closes on Saturday 27 Sep 2025