Clinical Tutor

Job summary

The Ambulance Clinical Tutor plays a key role in developing, delivering, and assuring the clinical and nonclinical education of ambulance personnel. The post holder ensures that staff are trained, mentored, and supported to deliver highquality patient care in line with organisational requirements, professional standards, and clinical governance frameworks.

The role also provides clinical leadership, undertakes mentorship and preceptorship programmes, supports continuing professional development, and maintains high standards of clinical practice through tutoring, appraisal, and assessment.

Recommend and implement the agreed training clinical and non-clinical strategies Plan and develop appropriate training programmes, policies and procedures to meet the organisational requirements, standards and scope of clinical practice. Tutor all levels of staff within the ambulance service. Undertake clinical/medical tutoring ensuring staff competency requirements are met.

Act as lead clinical mentor, develop a mentorship and preceptorship programme and support staff undertaking a variety of training and educational development activities. Provide advice, guidance and clinical support to all staff. Ensure maintenance of high standards of care through clinical appraisal. Provide leadership and guidance to a team to enable the team to meet its objectives and service level agreements.

Main duties of the job

• 1. Develop and implement all clinical and non-clinical training programmes for Ambulance Staff/Clinicians that is consistent with the Service Strategies and Annual Business Plan objectives and within budget.
• 2. Ensure the maintenance of appropriate training records and statistical information for accreditation, registration and clinical audit/governance. Ensure all training equipment is fit for use and well maintained. Production and implementation of training, clinical or governance related policies and procedures.
• 3. Tutor staff and volunteers as appropriate on all areas of clinical and operational practice. Manage and monitor all training, ensuring it takes place in accordance with current Health and Safety legislation and risk assessment. Address staff welfare issues during training events.
• 4. Monitor and assess staff performance/standards through training, audit and work based assessments and provide remedial training where necessary. As an outcome of appraisal for tutors and operational staff, produce individual development plans.
• 5. Maintain teaching and instruction skills through re-certification and through continuous application in order to maintain accreditation and training standards. Develop and maintainlinks with the other emergency services, hospital departments and outside organisations in order to keep abreast of current developments and standards of training and education.

About us

The Ambulance Clinical Tutor plays a key role in developing, delivering, and assuring the clinical and nonclinical education of ambulance personnel. The post holder ensures that staff are trained, mentored, and supported to deliver highquality patient care in line with organisational requirements, professional standards, and clinical governance frameworks.

The role also provides clinical leadership, undertakes mentorship and preceptorship programmes, supports continuing professional development, and maintains high standards of clinical practice through tutoring, appraisal, and assessment.

Recommend and implement the agreed training - clinical and non-clinical - strategies Plan and develop appropriate training programmes, policies and procedures to meet the organisational requirements, standards and scope of clinical practice. Tutor all levels of staff within the ambulance service. Undertake clinical/medical tutoring ensuring staff competency requirements are met.

Act as lead clinical mentor, develop a mentorship and preceptorship programme and support staff undertaking a variety of training and educational development activities. Provide advice, guidance and clinical support to all staff. Ensure maintenance of high standards of care through clinical appraisal. Provide leadership and guidance to a team to enable the team to meet its objectives and service level agreements.