Senior Critical Care Nurse Educator

Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS FT

Closing date is 05 March 2026

Are you a very experienced qualified critical care nurse with a strong interest and track record in education who would like to be part of the senior nursing team in a large dynamic and friendly critical care department?

In our teaching hospital at Doncaster we have 22 beds and at Bassetlaw 7 beds - both combined level 3 (ICU) and level 2 (HDU) and you will be expected to work across sites. We care for a wide range of adult critically ill medical and surgical emergency and elective cases. The units have excellent nursing skill mix so you get the experience and excitement of working in a large department but still have the friendly and supportive atmosphere.

We have a fully comprehensive career pathway offering induction, preceptorship and critical care qualifications as well as advanced clinical skills and leadership opportunities for experienced staff. We have a critical care nurse consultant and band 6 critical care nurse educators to support you, and there are many opportunities to be involved in quality improvement and research projects. We are part of South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Critical Care Network, and you will be expected to teach on our network academically accredited critical care course.

We have a great working relationship with allied health professionals who support our patients and our medical team who help support and educate our staff. If you are interested and have any questions or would like an informal visit, we would be happy to meet you.

The role is key in ensuring the learning and development needs of nursing and associated staff and students are met and knowledge, skill and competence are achieved. This will be done by both clinical and classroom teaching and developing a range of teaching resources. You will be expected to ensure that a culture of learning and development is maintained within critical care as well as preserving your clinical skills and developing further teaching and assessing skills.

You will be line manager for the band 6 critical care nurse educators and be expected to develop the critical care service alongside our senior team.

DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues. At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on the values of We Care and the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions.

As an organisation that supports flexible working, 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.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:

• Extensive range of learning opportunities
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditions
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing support
• NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers

Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read this document carefully. Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.

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• Extensive adult critical care nursing experience
• Working in a supervisory role, supporting, teaching, empowering and developing junior staff and students
• Use of IT to develop educational resources and records
• Experience of working in several different critical care units
• Development and delivery of education and training programmes in a formal classroom/academic setting
• Cross regional working

• Completion of National step competencies 1, 2 & 3
• Degree in nursing/healthcare
• Ability to study at level 7 (completion of post graduate credit)
• RN (adult) with current NMC registration
• Master's degree in nursing /…