Practice Education Trainer

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The closing date is 18 January 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Practice Education Trainer to join our team, based at Colchester Hospital, with flexible working across ESNEFT sites.

Are you passionate about developing people and supporting high-quality patient care? Do you enjoy teaching, coaching, and role-modelling best practice in clinical environments?

If so, we would love to hear from you.

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Practice Education Trainer (Band
4) to join our Clinical Education Team. This is an exciting opportunity to support the development, recruitment, onboarding, and retention of our non-registered workforce, including Healthcare Support Workers, Assistant Practitioners, apprentices, and Further Education learners.

• Supporting the delivery of education and training programmes for Band 2-4 clinical staff
• Delivering clinical skills training and supporting completion of the Care Certificate and Trust competencies
• Providing 1:1 practice-based support and role modelling best practice in clinical areas
• Supporting FE students and apprentices on placement within the Trust
• Working collaboratively with ward teams, Practice Educators, and the wider Clinical Education Team
• Maintaining accurate records and contributing to evaluation and quality improvement of education programmes

• To support the development and delivery of relevant training programmes within the clinical education team.
• To provide education and practice support to apprentices in practice (i.e. Trainee Nursing Associates, Assistant Practitioners and Healthcare Support worker apprentices)
• To support the Clinical Education team to deliver identified education programmes
• To provide support to Further Education students on placement with the Trust
• To facilitate non-registrants to achieve their National Care Certificate and relevant Trust competencies
• To support the Clinical Education to deliver identified clinical skills training

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

• GCSE Maths & English grade C or equivalent
• Completed Care certificate or equivalent qualification
• Relevant teaching qualification eg. PETLS
• NVQ level 2/3 or equivalent
• Mental Health First Aider

• Proven recent experience in a healthcare setting
• Evidence of delivering appropriate standard of patient care and improving the patient experience
  
  Experience assessing staff in the Care Certificate
• Experience of delivering training
• Experience with in a range of healthcare settings

• Excellent communication skills both verbally and written
• Good interpersonal skills
• Understanding of the role of post-registration team within the trust.

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.

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust