North Devon Hospice

Clinical Education Coordinator

The closing date is 20 March 2026

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Job summary

Our Mission is Simple

To provide outstanding care and support to the community of North Devon who are impacted by a life limiting illness.

Are you highly organised, people-focused, and passionate about making learning happen? We're looking for a dynamic Clinical Education Coordinator to join our team and support our ambition to be the palliative care educator of choice.

Main duties of the job

You will be at the heart of our Quality and Education Team, providing comprehensive administrative support while helping to shape and deliver impactful learning experiences for a range of professionals.

About us

Working for us is awesome! Benefits include:

  • An excellent working environment (& beautiful outside areas)
  • Flexible & family friendly policies including Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental leave and Pawternity!
  • Tech Scheme Cycle to work Scheme Free on-site parking
  • Personal pension scheme with the ability to continue contributions to your NHS pension
  • Generous holiday allowance increasing with service
  • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) offering free confidential advice on a range of matters including financial, legal, health and wellbeing
  • Health Cash Plan which can include up to 5 children and the option to include partners
  • Regular Wellbeing events
  • The opportunity to give us your feedback on how we can improve as an organisation

Details

Date posted

10 March 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£25,000 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

CEC032026

Job locations

North Devon Hospice

Deer Park

Newport

Devon

EX32 0HU


Job description

Job responsibilities

  • Providing comprehensive and efficient administrative support to the Clinical Quality Assurance and Improvement Lead and the Clinical Practice Educator
  • Being a point of contact for your team, wider hospice colleagues and external colleagues with regard to education and learning
  • Supporting communication within your team and across teams, responding to requests for information in a timely manner
  • Managing telephone enquiries in a calm and easily understood manner, being as informative and as reassuring as possible
  • Setting up and maintaining systems to support the education service including a comprehensive database of staff learning
  • Processing all study leave forms
  • Coordinating administration for education events including liaison with external trainers
  • Working closely with education institutes and our clinical teams to coordinate learner placements
  • Supporting the collection and collation of learner feedback and analysing this to help inform and influence service development
  • Maintaining and producing information for required departmental audits, reports and quality accounts as required
  • Working collaboratively and proactively with the other Clinical Administrators to facilitate communication between teams and individual staff members regarding learning opportunities
  • Working as a wider team of clinical administrators, agreeing and delivering a plan for cover maintaining a flexible approach to ensure services are supported in times of absence
  • Providing ad hoc support to the Administration team, including occasional reception cover
  • Undertaking project work as requested by the Clinical Quality Assurance and Improvement Lead and the Clinical Practice Educator
  • Maintaining stocks of educational supplies and sundries including ordering and liaising with the Finance team about invoicing

Job description

Job responsibilities

  • Providing comprehensive and efficient administrative support to the Clinical Quality Assurance and Improvement Lead and the Clinical Practice Educator
  • Being a point of contact for your team, wider hospice colleagues and external colleagues with regard to education and learning
  • Supporting communication within your team and across teams, responding to requests for information in a timely manner
  • Managing telephone enquiries in a calm and easily understood manner, being as informative and as reassuring as possible
  • Setting up and maintaining systems to support the education service including a comprehensive database of staff learning
  • Processing all study leave forms
  • Coordinating administration for education events including liaison with external trainers
  • Working closely with education institutes and our clinical teams to coordinate learner placements
  • Supporting the collection and collation of learner feedback and analysing this to help inform and influence service development
  • Maintaining and producing information for required departmental audits, reports and quality accounts as required
  • Working collaboratively and proactively with the other Clinical Administrators to facilitate communication between teams and individual staff members regarding learning opportunities
  • Working as a wider team of clinical administrators, agreeing and delivering a plan for cover maintaining a flexible approach to ensure services are supported in times of absence
  • Providing ad hoc support to the Administration team, including occasional reception cover
  • Undertaking project work as requested by the Clinical Quality Assurance and Improvement Lead and the Clinical Practice Educator
  • Maintaining stocks of educational supplies and sundries including ordering and liaising with the Finance team about invoicing

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • A good standard of education including Maths and English at GCSE Level 4 or above with an administration / business qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of providing administrative support to a busy team
  • Experience of collecting, collating and reporting data
  • Experience of developing and maintaining administrative systems
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • A good standard of education including Maths and English at GCSE Level 4 or above with an administration / business qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of providing administrative support to a busy team
  • Experience of collecting, collating and reporting data
  • Experience of developing and maintaining administrative systems

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

North Devon Hospice

Address

North Devon Hospice

Deer Park

Newport

Devon

EX32 0HU


Employer's website

https://www.northdevonhospice.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

North Devon Hospice

Address

North Devon Hospice

Deer Park

Newport

Devon

EX32 0HU


Employer's website

https://www.northdevonhospice.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Clinical Educator

Sarah Laverty

sarahlaverty@northdevonhospice.org.uk

01271347237

Details

Date posted

10 March 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£25,000 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

CEC032026

Job locations

North Devon Hospice

Deer Park

Newport

Devon

EX32 0HU


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