Clinical Nurse Trainer

Job description

Job responsibilities

Highfield House - Purley | Full-Time | Permanent

Competitive Salary + Excellent Benefits

At Fairlie Healthcare Group, education isn't simply about delivering mandatory training.

It's about developing confident, highly skilled clinicians who provide exceptional care to people living with complex neurological conditions.

We're looking for an experienced Registered Nurse, with ITU or HDU experience to the level where you can competently teach complex procedures, who is passionate about clinical excellence and enjoys coaching others, but who is equally confident holding high standards, assessing competence and improving practice where it matters most.

If you're looking for a role where you can genuinely influence patient outcomes and develop future clinical leaders, we'd love to hear from you.

About Fairlie Healthcare Group

Fairlie Healthcare Group is one of London's leading providers of specialist neurological rehabilitation and complex care.

Our patients require highly skilled nursing care, including:

• Tracheostomy management
• Mechanical ventilation
• Airway suctioning
• Cough Assist therapy
• PEG feeding and complex nutritional support
• Neurological rehabilitation
• Long-term complex nursing care

To provide exceptional care, we invest heavily in developing our workforce and our Nurse Trainers are central to that mission.

The Role

You'll work alongside our Learning & Development and Clinical Leadership teams to develop Nurses, Senior Healthcare Assistants and Care Assistants across our services.

This role combines education, clinical leadership, mentorship and governance.

You'll spend time building and delivering engaging teaching sessions, supporting staff in practice, assessing competencies, identifying learning needs and helping managers raise clinical standards across the centre.

This is a highly visible role where you'll build trusted relationships while maintaining high expectations for safe, evidence-based practice.

What You'll Be Doing

Deliver high-quality clinical education using classroom, simulation and bedside learning

• Assess, mentor and sign off clinical competencies
• Support the development of newly recruited nurses
• Deliver specialist training in:
• Tracheostomy care
• Mechanical ventilation
• Airway management
• Cough Assist
• PEG care
• Dysphagia awareness
• Complex neurological care
• Support career development pathways from Care Assistant through to Registered Nurse
• Work alongside managers to identify learning needs and improve clinical practice
• Support investigations, learning reviews and quality improvement initiatives where education can improve outcomes
• Help maintain mandatory training compliance and competency standards
• Contribute to the development of new education programmes and clinical resources

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse with a current NMC PIN
• ITU or HDU experience to the level where you can competently teach complex procedures
• Significant experience caring for adults with complex clinical needs
• Strong knowledge of tracheostomy, ventilation and airway management
• Experience supporting, mentoring or developing clinical staff
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Confident assessing clinical competence and providing constructive feedback
• Able to influence practice through coaching, education and positive challenge
• We'd love to see
• Practice Assessor or Practice Supervisor experience
• Previous clinical education or teaching experience
• Teaching qualification (or willingness to work towards one)

Desirable

• Registered Nurse with a current NMC PIN
• ITU or HDU experience to the level where you can competently teach complex procedures
• Significant experience caring for adults with complex clinical needs
• Strong knowledge of tracheostomy, ventilation and airway management
• Experience supporting, mentoring or developing clinical staff
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Confident assessing clinical competence and providing constructive feedback
• Able to influence practice through coaching, education and positive challenge
• We'd love to see
• Practice Assessor or Practice Supervisor experience
• Previous clinical education or teaching experience
• Teaching qualification (or willingness to work towards one)

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Fairlie Healthcare Group

Address

Highfield House

92 Higher Drive

Purley

Surrey

CR8 2HJ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://fairliehealthcare.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)