Job summary
- Main area
- Emergency Medicine
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (1 Clinical Shift per week, or one full week a month)
- Job ref
- 218-NM-B6-8219685
- Employer
- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
- Town
- Coventry
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/09/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 15/09/2026
Employer heading
Clinical Education Facilitator
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
The candidate will be joining a well-established Clinical Education team within Emergency Medicine working with 2 Adult Nurse CEF’s, 1 CEF for Children’s Emergency Department, 1 CEF for Minor Injury/Illness + UTC, and a Clinical Education HCSW/admin. We support the bustling group of Emergency Medicine Nursing + AHP staff, covering Adult Emergency Department, Children’s Emergency Department, Minor Injury + Illness Unit and Urgent Treatment Centres, Acute Medical Short Stay, Acute Frailty Unit and Medical Assessment Unit.
Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.
Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.
Main duties of the job
The EM Clinical Education Facilitator's are responsible for supporting the delivery, coordination, and evaluation of clinical education programs within our Emergency Medicine Group settings. The role focuses on enhancing the clinical competence of healthcare professionals—including doctors, nurses, paramedics, and allied health staff—by facilitating training, simulation, supervision and assessment, leading to achieving professional development aligned with evidence-based emergency medicine practices.
The facilitator collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to design and implement educational initiatives that improve patient safety, clinical performance, and adherence to emergency care protocols.
The position requires strong clinical knowledge of emergency medicine care, excellent communication and facilitation skills, and the ability to engage diverse learners in a fast-paced healthcare setting while promoting continuous professional development and quality improvement. Sound IT skills are expected to keep record keeping of such training in ways easy to review and analyse.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.
We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.
Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.
We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence® designated organisation – please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence ® - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)
By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.
The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To be a visible presence in the clinical areas working clinically alongside, supervising learners to enable them to achieve their learning objectives.
- The successful candidate will work within our team to take responsibility for specific tasks such as delivering training to our wider emergency medicine team on a new device, whilst monitoring progress through excellent record keeping.
- Responsibilities include coordinating teaching sessions, supporting simulation-based training, mentoring learners, and assisting in the assessment of clinical competencies.
- Guide senior staff and practice assessors and supervisors to ensure students and other learners receive a robust induction and orientation to the placement areas.
- Working closely with new starters in emergency medicine, specifically newly qualified professionals both in a classroom and clinical supervision setting to support their induction and settling in period within their new role. This involves the planning and teaching on local induction.
- Being kept up to date with own clinical knowledge and skills, to an ‘expert’ level, able to cascade knowledge and skills to the required roles.
- Monitoring, interpreting and actioning figures of mandatory and essential training, communicating with the wider teams to ensure engagement and performance achieved
- Communicating to team leaders any barriers to own or wider team performance, with active initiative for resolving barriers
- To signpost staff to the appropriate information, advice and guidance relating to the learning opportunities provided within the trust.
- Communicate effectively with colleagues, patients and relatives.
- Participate in clinical audit and reviews of patient care, as required.
- Working 1 clinical shift a week/1 week a month-varying clinical presence across the emergency medicine clinical areas. This shift may be flexible to meet service demand/needs.
- The role will require flexible working to cover the needs of the service.
For further details of the role please see the attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Registered Nurse registered with the NMC • Undertaken Practice Assessor training • Degree in relevant field • Triage Qualification e.g. MTS or ED Acuity • Level 3 Resuscitation (ILS or equivalent)
Desirable criteria
- • Professional Nurse Advocate or committed to work towards • Post-graduate Certificate in Education or equivalent; or committed to work towards • Academic study within Emergency/Acute Medicine field • Level 4 Resuscitation (ALS or equivalent)
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Significant post-registration experience within an Emergency Medicine setting, including experience at Band 5 or Band 6 level. • Recent experience of working with students, learners or newly qualified staff in practice • Experience delivering teaching, training or presentations • Current clinical credibility at senior level • Evidence of ability to manage sensitive and complex information and situations
Desirable criteria
- • Involvement in quality improvement, research or audit activities • Contribution with classroom/simulation based education • Cascade trainer in one or more topics • Experience in audit and record keeping • Evidence of ability to function with a high degree of personal accountability and autonomy. • Evidence of ability to manage change and challenge barriers to change
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of Continuous Professional Development • Knowledge of pre-registration Health Science programmes and professional bodies (NMC and HCPC) standards relating to education
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge of coaching models • Theory of curriculum planning • A good understanding of current • issues relating to the NHS. • Use of action learning and other methods of facilitating staff development
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Confident and calm attitude with an ability to work under pressure • Good organisational & team building skills • Demonstrates effective leadership qualities • Ability to teach, assess and supervise others • Willing to work in all clinical areas to support learners and clinical staff • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills • Willing to work flexibly to cover the needs of the service. This may include evenings and weekends.
Desirable criteria
- • Advanced Microsoft Office Skill (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) • Ability to work autonomously setting own targets and measuring performance against these targets • Ability to use a variety of presentations skills to engage with individuals with a multitude of learning styles
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- • Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s values. (As detailed in UHCW’s Values in Action document below) • Applicants applying for job roles with managerial responsibility will be required to demonstrate evidence of promoting equal opportunities through work experience
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lydia Botham
- Job title
- Clinical Education Lead Emergency Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02476966230
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