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Main area
317 IT - Business Solutions
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Fixed term: 9 months (from date of appointment)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
317-2025-30-015
Employer
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Regent Point
Town
317 Regent Point
Salary
£31,049 - £37,796 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
14/08/2025 23:59
Interview date
26/08/2025

Employer heading

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

IT Trainer

Band 5

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders. 

Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Job overview

Do you enjoy helping to develop and improve people’s skills and knowledge within IT?


Do you have a passion for working with a diverse and unique workforce?
Are you enthusiastic in imparting your knowledge using wide variety of technologies?


If so, an opportunity has arisen for two IT Trainers to join our successful and established IT Training team based within the Digital and Technology Services Directorate. 


As an IT Trainer you will deliver training for new and existing IT systems using multiple methods of delivery from large lecture theatres to individual sessions to virtual delivery.


Alongside delivering training you will support end users remotely or in their place of work which can include offices, wards, theatres, clinics to name but a few.


Post 1 Fixed Term 9 months
Post 2 Fixed Term 10 months

  • Interview date: Tuesday 26 August 2025
  • 37 hours 30 minutes/week
  • You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy.  Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

Main duties of the job

  • Deliver training sessions on clinical and non-clinical systems, this may be via a traditional classroom/lecture theatre setting or via remote/virtual sessions
  • Develop new training courses in conjunction with the project teams as new systems are introduced or current systems are upgraded
  • Provide support to staff either in person or remotely
  • Develop training and support materials using a variety of different media including videos, handouts, e-learning materials

We are looking for a highly driven candidate with excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a high level of classroom delivery experience.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for all essential and desirable criteria required for the role.

 

Working for our organisation

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:

·         Freeman Hospital

·         Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)

·         Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)

·         Newcastle Dental Hospital

·         Newcastle Fertility Centre

·         Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria

·         Northern Genetics Service

·         Cramlington Manor Walks

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

•    To support the IT Training Manager in designing, delivering and evaluating IT training in formal and informal environments, to both individuals and large groups of staff including virtual delivery.

Person specification

Knowledge

Desirable criteria
  • • Understanding of NHS including recent reforms

Skills

Essential criteria
  • • Advanced IT skill sets, e.g. Microsoft Office Specialist or working towards
  • • Ability to use initiative and work flexibly without direct supervision
Desirable criteria
  • • Able to converse fluently, logically and confidently with a wide range of levels of staff
  • • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • • Effective organisation and communication skills, combined with ability to work to deadlines under pressure
  • • Analytical skills including the ability to handle numerical data and statistics
  • • Negotiating and problem-solving skills

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Successful track record in contributing to the delivery of complex programmes of technology-based change leading to realisation of benefits, ideally in an NHS environment.
  • • Proven experience as a Trainer in a face-to-face classroom environment
  • • Experience of designing technical course materials
Desirable criteria
  • • Project Management experience
  • • Experience of Cerner Millennium applications (PM office, Scheduling Appointment Book, PowerChart, FirstNet) or Specialist Cerner applications qualification)
  • • Experience of TPP SystmOne

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential criteria
  • • Educated to degree level or equivalent experience, preferably in an IT or Education related subject
  • • English Language GCSE grade 4 or above
Desirable criteria
  • • Teaching qualification, e.g. Certificate of Education

Employer certification / accreditation badges

We are a Living Wage EmployerVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardRIDI Awards Finalist 2021Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall Gold 2022Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldCycle Friendly Employer

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Robert Burroughs
Job title
Senior IT Training Officer
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0191 2137373
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