Clinical Educator

The Resuscitation, Simulation & Skills Team at Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust are looking for professionals with passion, dedication, and commitment to excellence in education. The team delivers education in a broad range of disciplines to a wide variety of learners.

You will be supported to learn and teach Resuscitation, Simulation and Clinical Skills to learners from student to senior level both in the classroom and the clinical setting.

The Resuscitation, Skills and Simulation team is a friendly and supportive team of highly skilled professional educators, working across both Trust sites. We have a reputation for delivering high quality safe healthcare training using innovative techniques and cutting-edge technology. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated educator to join our forward thinking, inclusive team.

Main duties of the job

You will assist the Head of Resuscitation, Simulation & Skills in managing, developing and delivering a wide variety of courses to learners from all healthcare disciplines.

You will be expected to deliver regional and national courses in Resuscitation and management of the deteriorating patient, and support and assess learners capability in these. In addition you will be expected to design and deliver simulation and clinical skills teaching in line with local and national policy, and in response to clinical events, quality improvement projects and Trust wide audit. You will also be expected to support learners in the clinical setting and take part in collecting audit data and patient safety projects.

You will have excellent communication skills and provide expert advice to ensure the best evidence-based patient care. The ability to work on your own initiative, problem solve, prioritise your workload, manage projects and meet deadlines is essential.

You will either possess a resuscitation council approved (or ALSG approved) advanced life support (adult/ paediatric or both) qualification or have knowledge and experience in advanced life support practice and education. In addition, it is desirable that you have a recognised instructor's qualification in resuscitation or a degree/masters level module in teaching.

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated 'good' organisation with 'outstanding' features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.