Assistant Clinical Educator

Job summary

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 assist the department, in the organisation, administration, and delivery of a wide range of training programmes including Resuscitation, Clinical Simulation and Clinical Skills.

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 and simulation education to learners from all healthcare disciplines.

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 and administration skills to ensure the best experience on our advanced courses. The ability to work on your own initiative, problem solve, prioritise your workload, manage projects and meet deadlines is essential. Excellent IT skills are a prerequisite including Word, Excel, and databases.

A teaching qualification or experience would be advantageous as the post will involve some teaching of BLS/Skills and assisting with Simulation as required

You will be supported to develop your career in a variety of opportunities, and be involved in all aspects of equipment management, audit activities, multidisciplinary events, and national and local patient safety initiatives.

This post will be required to work across all trust sites as required.

About us

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.