Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Palliative Care - FH
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months (until 31 January 2027)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-2025-44-020-A
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- 317 Trustwide
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/03/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 01/04/2026
Employer heading
Clinical Educator
Band 6
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.
With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.
As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
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
With thanks to Newcastle Hospitals Charities, we have an exciting opportunity for a nurse to join the Newcastle Hospitals palliative care service for 9 Months in a unique role supporting Trust wide education with a focus on outstanding end of life care for patients, those important to them and staff. This will be done through the implementation of the digital Caring for the Dying Patient Document and Comfort Observation systems in eRecord. This role will give the successful candidate opportunities to work collaboratively with the existing palliative care service, digital health specialists and be part of the Trust clinical educator workforce.
This opportunity is time sensitive to the launch of the digital Caring for the Dying Patient Document and Comfort Observations system into eRecord and will give the successful candidate scope and support to optimise the impact they have through education delivery in many different forms to staff across the Trust. This will include awareness raising events/communications ahead of the launch, real-time support on ‘go live’, ongoing support across all wards/departments (RVI, Freeman and NCCC) and planning/collaboration with the wider Clinical Educator workforce to develop sustainable models beyond the post.
Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to make contact to gain as much insight as possible into this unique role.
Main duties of the job
In summary the post holder will work with the current Nurse Specialist’s for End of Life Care supporting delivery of the 5 priorities for care and the Palliative Care Service strategy. Postholders will have input into the final system ahead of its launch, support the communications/engagement and be the dedicated resource supporting education delivery on good end of life care and how the eRecord system can support this across the Trust.
In the run up to ‘go live’ the post holder will:
- Be part of what the final system will look like and test this with staff in the Trust
- Support communications/engagement to ensure readiness for change
- Consider the community interface for patients being discharged out of hospital with the new system
- Work closely with existing palliative care, digital health and clinical educators to make the biggest impact
On ‘go live’ and beyond:
- Support real-time staff transitioning to new ways of working through education delivery/role modelling across the Trust with enhanced communication skills
- Education delivery 1:1, small groups, MS Teams, lecture theatres and E-Learning for multidisciplinary teams involved in completion
- Work with existing teams to enhance the educational offer we have already to include this component
- Consider what sustainability measures can be put in place to ensure ongoing education delivery supporting good end of life care
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.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
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
- Interview Date: 1 April 2026
- 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
Other opportunities include:
- Working collaboratively with clinical specialists in palliative care/digital and building on education delivery skills for own development
- Opportunities to get involved with local/national audits and consider quality improvement opportunities
- Report writing alongside existing team members to evidence impact of 9 months post to Newcastle Hospitals Charities
Job Purpose
• The primary purpose of this role is to support and deliver on-going education, training for nursing and midwifery teams and may be required to support members of the MDT.
• Identify all opportunities for themselves and others where learning can take place, both formally and informally.
• Support a Training Needs Analysis and maintain registers of training as appropriate, support ward and departmental sisters/charge nurses to ensure mandatory training is compliant with Trust standard.
• Makes an active contribute to the Corporate agenda which should be in the region of 40% of the time
• Contribute to corporate training and education. Will be asked to support practice development initiatives.
• Develop appropriate competency based clinical skills education and develop relevant competency assessment documents for approval by the appropriate Trust Committee e.g. Clinical Role Development Group or Nursing and Midwifery Practice Development Group.
• Support the Trust Governance and Patient Safety agenda through active participation in the work of the Nursing and Midwifery Practice Development Group.
• To maintain the delivery and quality of services provided within the care environment including the care delivered, supporting nursing standards and acting as a role model working clinically with staff where needed.
• To provide a nursing lead as a member of the multidisciplinary team
o Provide advice
o Patient and Staff advocacy
• Influence change and development of practice, utilising the most recent evidence base.
• Support the appropriate manager with the development and performance management review of staff where appropriate.
• Abide by Trust policies when dealing with complaints, accidents and incidents.
• Maintain discipline within the clinical area, abiding by Trust Disciplinary Procedure Policies
• Contribute to interview panels, where appropriate in the appointment of staff, and be aware of legislation and local personnel policies affecting the employment of staff.
• Implementation of evaluation audits to measure the impact of educational programmes and disseminate the results.
• Support and deliver a competency based induction for new staff and students to the directorate.
• Facilitate the provision of Clinical Supervision ensuring this is a support mechanism available to all staff.
• Identify areas of good practice and provide opportunities for staff to share this across the organisation.
Person specification
KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- • Has understanding / experience of adult / child safeguarding.
- • Knowledge and understanding of current relevant NHS policy context.
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of developing and leading programmes of education and or training.
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Good IT skills
- • Proven leadership and interpersonal skills
- • Proven change management skills and practice development
- • Evidence of good communication and interpersonal skills, including effective report writing.
- • Effective organisation and time management skills and able to work to deadlines
- • Ability to work independently and across disciplines as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Some post registration experience some of which will be at a senior level.
Desirable criteria
- • Research or audit experience.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Registered Nurse (appropriate to Branch)
- • Current NMC Registration.
- • Experience within specialist area;
- • Level 6 study (Degree pathway).
- • Meets Nursing and Midwifery Council requirements for Practice Supervisor and Assessor or Educator
- • Evidence of on-going professional, personal and academic development.
Desirable criteria
- • Degree
- o Teaching and Assessing Course e.g. City & Guilds Award in Education and Training.
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
- Lizzy Zabrocki
- Job title
- Nurse Specialist End of Life Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07714847426
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