Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Neonatal Clinical Educator

The closing date is 12 June 2025

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking a Neonatal Clinical Educator on a fixed term / secondment for 12 months.

We are looking to recruit a highly skilled and motivated Neonatal nurse, who has recently worked on a Neonatal Level 2/3unit. You are required to have extensive experience in delivering Medical HDU care to neonates and as a minimum have exposure to the Neonatal ITU environment.

Through teaching, coaching and supervision you will be required to support the development of Neonatal staff members to deliver competent, high quality HDU care and support their progression to ITU. The individual must be confident when communicating and have the ability to adapt their teaching style to meet the diverse needs of the staff group. You must be QIS in NICU care.

If you are confident in the assessment, treatment and management of babies, providing family integrated care and can support a nursing team through positive role modelling, professionalism and education then this neonatal clinical educator post could be for you.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Details

Date posted

29 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

214-W&C-7055396

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Manfield Road

Sutton in Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Interpersonal skills/ professional manner
  • Proven Management skills - effective organisational abilities, supervisory skills, leadership skills, change management skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Working with NICU

Desirable

  • Negotiation skills

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree level qualified nurse
  • NMC registration
  • Teaching Qualification
  • Qualified in speciality for neonatal nursing

Further Training

Essential

  • Evidence of personal and professional development in education

Experience

Essential

  • Recent experience of teaching and assessing
  • Evidence of working as a team member

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Regular attendance
  • Ability to work flexibly
  • Maintain professional competency
Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Interpersonal skills/ professional manner
  • Proven Management skills - effective organisational abilities, supervisory skills, leadership skills, change management skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Working with NICU

Desirable

  • Negotiation skills

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree level qualified nurse
  • NMC registration
  • Teaching Qualification
  • Qualified in speciality for neonatal nursing

Further Training

Essential

  • Evidence of personal and professional development in education

Experience

Essential

  • Recent experience of teaching and assessing
  • Evidence of working as a team member

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Regular attendance
  • Ability to work flexibly
  • Maintain professional competency

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).

Additional information

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

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Manfield Road

Sutton in Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Manfield Road

Sutton in Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Deputy Divisional Director - Nursing

Rachael Giles

rachael.giles2@nhs.net

01623622515

Details

Date posted

29 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

214-W&C-7055396

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Manfield Road

Sutton in Ashfield

NG17 4JL


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