The closing date is 09 December 2025
Salary
£64,156 to £71,148 a year pa inclusive
Job summary
Here at Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, the Theatres, Anaesthetics, Pre-operative Assessment, and Perioperative Pain (TAPP) Directorate is expanding its clinical education provision. We are currently recruiting for a Band 8a Lead Nurse for Education to join our growing team.
If you are a registered (NMC and HCPC) professional with substantial experience in surgical scrub, anaesthetics, and/or recovery, we would love to hear from you.
The post holder will need a strong work ethic, self-awareness, and the ability to recognize their limitations and areas for development. The right candidate should also be able to demonstrate significant involvement in supporting and training staff in clinical practice.
We are looking for someone who is committed to the team, has excellent organizational and communication skills, and is passionate about improving patient care. In return, this role offers opportunities to enhance your perioperative and leadership knowledge and skills.
Main duties of the job
- Lead the TAPP education team to support and promote effective multi-disciplinary team education opportunities through academic and experiential learning.
- Provide teaching, supervision and continuous assessment of all learners, delegating as appropriate. Provide a quality learning environment for all members of the Multidisciplinary team.
- To have local open and transparent communication channels that supports the team to do the right thing for people we care for, to embrace good ideas and to speak up when things go wrong.
- Ensure the health and safety of all staff, patients and visitors, reporting any incidents, hazards, or defects and taking responsibility to minimise risk. To implement, with the senior team, action plans to ensure improvement if an incident has occurred. At all times adhering to and ensuring adherence to Trust policies and procedures.
- Ensure local plans support all clinical quality external accreditation, for example Care Quality Commission (CQC) essential standards, Safety Thermometer, Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN), Quality Accounts, NHS Litigation Authority.
- Responsible for ensuring that all education, training and development provisions and opportunities are regularly audited and the results fed back to staff and management.
Education/ qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (level 1)
- Educated to degree level
- Post registration qualification in specialty
- Recognised teaching/assessing qualification
- Management certificate or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Post graduate degree or MSc in Education
Experience
Essential
- Managing a team
- Providing clinical education at a senior level
- Developing an educational strategy
- Change management – led change in practice
- Policy writing
- Delivering education and training in a classroom and within a clinical setting
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential
- Capable of working strategically
- Ability to lead a team
- Ability to work effectively under pressure
- IT Skills (Including proficiency with Microsoft Office Packages and accurate, fast typing skills)
- Negotiation and managing conflict
- Analysing training needs
Desirable
- Management training and/ or experience
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).