Clinical Skills Practitioner
| Posting date: | 06 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 Pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 22 March 2026 |
| Location: | Rake Lane Tyne and Wear, NE29 8NH |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7748868/319-7748868LH-HAS |
Summary
A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder will be responsible for planning and delivering clinical skills to undergraduate medical student, ensuring competency is achieved in order to progress. They will have a Major job responsibility to develop and deliver a broad range of practical procedure training to medical students undertaking 5-year MBBS program. Undertaking assessment of student’s capability and provides verbal feedback and guidance.
They will be Able to competently perform and teach clinical procedures such as venepuncture and cannulation. Catheterisation setting up IV fluids/ medications, S/C and IM injections, Blood glucose monitoring , Vital signs monitoring etc.They will work closely with the undergraduate education team to recruit and consent patients from wards and outpatient departments for participation in medical education and inclusion in local database.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
· To plan develop and deliver clinical skill training to medical students including the development of relevant educational resources.
· Responsible for ensuring students achieve proficiency in performing practical procedures (venepuncture, cannulation, catheterization, etc.).
· Responsible for ensuring students are signed off as competent in practical procedures required by the GMC in order for training progression.
· Be actively involved in the ongoing recruitment of volunteer patients for participation in medical education and maintenance of the local volunteer database.
· Contribute to the research and the development of medical education.
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.
To plan develop and deliver clinical skill training to medical students including
the development of relevant educational resources. Responsible for ensuring
students achieve proficiency in performing practical procedures (venepuncture, cannulation, catheterization, etc.).
Responsible for ensuring students are signed off as competent in practical
procedures required by the GMC in order for training progression.
Be actively involved in the ongoing recruitment of volunteer patients for
participation in medical education and maintenance of the local volunteer
database. Contribute to the research and the development of medical
education.
This advert closes on Sunday 8 Mar 2026
The post holder will be responsible for planning and delivering clinical skills to undergraduate medical student, ensuring competency is achieved in order to progress. They will have a Major job responsibility to develop and deliver a broad range of practical procedure training to medical students undertaking 5-year MBBS program. Undertaking assessment of student’s capability and provides verbal feedback and guidance.
They will be Able to competently perform and teach clinical procedures such as venepuncture and cannulation. Catheterisation setting up IV fluids/ medications, S/C and IM injections, Blood glucose monitoring , Vital signs monitoring etc.They will work closely with the undergraduate education team to recruit and consent patients from wards and outpatient departments for participation in medical education and inclusion in local database.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
· To plan develop and deliver clinical skill training to medical students including the development of relevant educational resources.
· Responsible for ensuring students achieve proficiency in performing practical procedures (venepuncture, cannulation, catheterization, etc.).
· Responsible for ensuring students are signed off as competent in practical procedures required by the GMC in order for training progression.
· Be actively involved in the ongoing recruitment of volunteer patients for participation in medical education and maintenance of the local volunteer database.
· Contribute to the research and the development of medical education.
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.
To plan develop and deliver clinical skill training to medical students including
the development of relevant educational resources. Responsible for ensuring
students achieve proficiency in performing practical procedures (venepuncture, cannulation, catheterization, etc.).
Responsible for ensuring students are signed off as competent in practical
procedures required by the GMC in order for training progression.
Be actively involved in the ongoing recruitment of volunteer patients for
participation in medical education and maintenance of the local volunteer
database. Contribute to the research and the development of medical
education.
This advert closes on Sunday 8 Mar 2026