Clinical Facilitator - PACU

Are you passionate about developing others and maintaining clinical excellence? Join our dynamic Main Theatres team as a Practice, Development & Education Facilitator - a role that blends hands‑on clinical practice with education, leadership, and quality improvement. The training facilitator working within the Post Anaesthetic care Unit plays an important role in supporting high quality learning, coordination, and development across a highly specialised clinical area.

You will coordinate induction, preceptorship, and training programmes, working closely with Higher Education Institutions and training providers. From delivering practical teaching sessions to mentoring and coaching, you'll create a positive learning environment that drives professional growth and enhances patient care. The post-holder will be responsible for supporting the PACU Clinical Leader in providing leadership and effective management and co‑ordination of patient activity, staffing and utilisation throughout the patient’s operative pathway, in order to promote a patient centred approach to high quality health care whilst upholding and influencing professional and Trust values:

• Managerial aptitude and knowledge of hospital policy and procedure.
• High level of clinical skill set appropriate to the department.
• Outstanding communication skills
• Act as a resource to support the team
• Risk assessment skills and knowledge for the area.

• Spend approximately 50% of your time in direct clinical practice, ensuring safe, evidence‑based post‑operative care and maintaining credibility.
• Lead and coordinate induction, preceptorship, and ongoing development programmes for theatre and PACU staff and learners.
• Deliver high‑quality teaching and support competency‑based training in partnership with Higher Education Institutions.
• Drive quality improvement, audits, and governance initiatives to enhance patient safety and service standards.
• Provide visible leadership, supporting workforce planning, recruitment, and staff development.
  Registered Nurse (NMC) or Operating Department Practitioner (HCPC).
• Significant peri‑operative experience and a passion for education.
• Strong leadership, communication, and organisational skills.
• Commitment to continuous professional development and digital literacy.
  Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!

The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first‑class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state‑of‑the‑art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students.

We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world., You'll spend approximately 50% of your time in direct clinical practice working as part of a multi‑disciplinary team (nurse, ODPs, HCSWs, medical staff) caring for adults and children in the immediate post‑anaesthetic / surgical phase in 9 locations across the NNUH site, Including:
Main Theatre Suite on levels 2 and 3, Obstetric Theatres, Jenny Lind Theatre Complex (paediatrics), Norfolk & Norwich Orthopaedic Centre, CT/ MRI, Norfolk Centre for Interventional Radiology, Brachytherapy Suite and Gastroenterology - therefore skills and knowledge of a wide range of post anaesthetic and post‑operative care are required. The remaining time will focus on leading education and development initiatives, supporting staff and learners to…