Job summary
- Main area
- Surgery
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - Monday - Friday
- Job ref
- 427-7934160
- Employer
- Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal United Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Bath
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Practice Education Facilitator Surgery
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
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Lead and support the CPF team, ensuring high‑quality educational support is embedded throughout the Surgical Division.
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Oversee a comprehensive induction programme for all new starters—both registered and unregistered—ensuring everyone is safely, effectively, and confidently welcomed into the surgical environment.
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Set the strategic vision for education within Surgery, aligning priorities with divisional and Trust objectives, and regularly presenting progress and outcomes at senior leadership forums.
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Ensure accurate training and competency records are maintained, promoting full compliance with Trust‑mandated training and supporting staff to achieve their required competencies.
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Deliver Surgery‑specific clinical education, ensuring staff have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to provide safe, evidence‑based perioperative and surgical patient care.
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Contribute to clinical audit and quality improvement activity, identifying training needs, proposing solutions, and helping shape the ongoing development of the surgical workforce.
Main duties of the job
Coordinate education, training, and practice‑development activity across the Surgical Division.
Ensure staff achieve required competencies and have access to effective learning, CPD, high‑quality teaching, research opportunities, and professional support.
Collaborate with universities, Trust colleagues, and external education providers to design and deliver programmes that reflect local, regional, and national standards.
Support development of guidelines, leading audit activity, research, and innovation in clinical education.
Manage educational records and data, contributing to governance processes and ensuring policies remain current and evidence‑based.
Drive improvement in communication and teamwork, strengthening relationships and supporting effective service delivery across surgical specialties.
Working for our organisation
We are proud to be part of BSW Hospitals Group - a formal partnership between the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. With a combined workforce of over 17, 600 colleagues, and budget of 1.6 billion the Group is united by a common purpose to deliver the best possible care to over 1 million people.
We are creating a health and care system that works with the people we care for, reducing the differences people currently face in access, experience and outcomes, improving the experience of our colleagues and tackling shared challenges like sustainability and finances. Every improvement we make across our Group will be guided by what creates the greatest benefit for our colleagues, our patients, our communities and our partners.
By working together, we make a real difference for our patients, each other, and our community. Every role matters in delivering the exceptional, person‑centred care we’re proud of.
We’re committed to a compassionate, inclusive culture where kindness is championed, differences are valued, and diversity makes us stronger.
We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential. We prioritise staff wellbeing – and yes, we even have a pool!
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Provide visible leadership in the Surgical Division, promoting high standards, continuous improvement and evidence based practice.
- Lead and support the Band 6 Practice Education Facilitators, ensuring effective supervision, performance management and professional development.
- Plan, deliver and evaluate education, training and competency based development for all surgical nursing staff.
- Work collaboratively with the senior nursing team and education partners to maintain safe, high quality patient care and support all learners.
- Oversee CPD, audit, research engagement and the development, review and implementation of evidence based guidelines and service improvements.
- Manage educational data and contribute to governance, risk management, incident learning and strategic workforce planning.
Person specification
Experience of working in a surgical setting
Essential criteria
- Evidence of working in a surgical setting
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of working in a variety of surgical settings
Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Hold a valid professional registration
Teaching and assessing qualification in clincal practice
Essential criteria
- Teaching and assessing clinical practice qualification
Desirable criteria
- Higher level qualification in teaching and assessing clinical practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Ruth Ebdon
- Job title
- Surgical Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01225 821191
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