Job summary
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Educator - Lincolnshire
NHS AfC: Band 7
We are East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS), an organisation focused on delivering a high standard of emergency and urgent care to our patients across the region.
The East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) provides Emergency, Urgent and Non-Emergency pre-hospital care and transport across six counties (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Northamptonshire).
Job overview
The role of Senior Clinical Educator (SCE) is an important role within EMAS Education and contributes to the delivery of taught programmes, as
well as supporting divisional practice development and annual educational updates. Alongside the formal teaching requirements there is a busy
team of educators to lead, support and manage as part of the role. The Senior Clinical Educator will work in an educational leadership team and may be responsible for any aspect related to Education Management, Quality and Compliance and Education Development.
The Senior Clinical Educator is accountable to the Deputy Head of Education for the delivery of the service by providing leadership, expert knowledge, skill and direction in the design, implementation and evaluation of education
**Applications for bank positions will be considered**
Main duties of the job
You will need to be confident to lead a team of clinical educators and manage education provision which will include contributing to the teaching and assessing across the education centres. The successful applicant will be supported by a team of peers and the Deputy Head of Education alongside the Head of Education.
It is extremely important that as a SCE that you build close relationships the divisional management teams to ensure that learners are supported
both within and outside of the education centres by both the education and operational management teams. You will also need to support
divisions/directorates with educational development and practice development, as part of this role. You must therefore be able to practice clinically to provide an operational response in accordance with your clinical registration where required.
Due to recent developments within education, you must be confident to deliver blended learning and utilise online systems (for example MS
Teams/virtual learning environments) to deliver taught content/sessions. You must also commit to your own continuing professional development.
Working for our organisation
This is a particularly exciting time in education and EMAS have a range of students/learners accessing the Paramedic Apprenticeship, First
Response Emergency Care (FREC) student technician pathway, and CPD programmes. We are pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician and clinical educator. This particular opportunity is only open to candidates who currently hold formalised teaching/assessor qualifications and have current experience of teaching all contemporary programmes
within EMAS Education. You will need to embrace the EMAS Trust values and be committed to developing and delivering high quality clinical education which is student focused.
You will have a teaching, assessing and mentorship qualification with demonstrable evidence of work based teaching. You must be willing to
undertake professional development.
**Applications for bank positions will be considered**
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description.
The main purpose of the job
To contribute to the idea and concept of a shared leadership team
To ensure effective management of education provision across education sites
To implement and monitor quality assurance processes within education, to ensure compliance with internal or external standards
To take responsibility for the development, implementation and evaluation of education, training and professional development
Person specification
application form and interview
Essential criteria
- HCPC State Registered Paramedic OR Registered Nurse OR Registered allied health professional
- L4 Teaching Qualification L3 Assessing Qualification L4 Internal Quality Assurance Qualification
- Relevant health care related degree or evidence of working at that level
- 5 years operational experience as a paramedic or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Minimum of 2 years operational experience as a Paramedic or equivalent
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Karl Anderson
- Job title
- Deputy Head of Education
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07773 045391
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