South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Education Manager - South
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Clinical Education Manager
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Clinical Directorate as a Clinical Education Manager, leading and shaping the delivery of high-quality clinical education across a diverse and dynamic region.
We are looking for an experienced clinical education leader, or an aspiring senior leader ready for a development opportunity, who is passionate about developing people, improving education quality, and supporting excellent patient care. In this pivotal role, you will provide senior leadership to multi-disciplinary education teams across Clinical Education, EOC Education, and Driving Education, ensuring our people are confident, competent, and supported to deliver safe, effective care.
The role combines strategic leadership with operational delivery. You will be responsible for developing and delivering regional education plans, supporting statutory and mandatory training compliance, overseeing onboarding activity, providing assurance on education quality, and working closely with operational colleagues across multiple counties.
If you are clinically credible, values-led, and motivated by making a tangible difference to staff development and patient care, this is an excellent opportunity to lead a specialist education service and help shape the future capability of our workforce.
Please note, salary is currently indicative pending job evaluation.
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Responsibilities
The Clinical Education Manager will be responsible for the leadership, management, and development of the regional clinical education service across Clinical Education, EOC Education, and Driving Education.
- Lead multi-disciplinary education teams across multiple counties, ensuring effective delivery of clinical education, statutory and mandatory training, onboarding activity, and workforce development priorities.
- Provide senior leadership to Education Team Leaders and specialist education leads, supporting staff performance, development, wellbeing, and professional standards.
- Be clinically accountable for the safety, quality, and professional standards of education delivered within the region.
- Ensure education is evidence-based, aligned to Trust clinical guidance, and delivered by competent and supported educators.
Requirements
- Strong communication, negotiation, and influencing skills, particularly when working with senior operational colleagues, education teams, learners, and external partners to resolve competing priorities and ensure education delivery remains safe, effective, and responsive to organizational need.
About Us
Working for us is an experience like no other. We provide emergency and urgent care, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, operating across the largest ambulance region in England and responding to an average of 2,650 incidents every day.
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We remain committed to ensuring that we provide the best possible care for all our patients, which is reflected in our new five-year strategy which has continually improving patient care at its very core.
Location
The role is based in Exeter, one of the most vibrant, attractive, and historically interesting cities in England, with excellent transport links and a great mix of independent shops, cafes, and bars.
Our Values
If you embody our values of one team, compassionate, and innovative, and are looking to make a real difference to peoples’ lives, then we would love to hear from you.
Benefits
- Competitive NHS salary
- A standard working week of 37.5 hours
- Holiday entitlements of 27 days per year, plus general and public holidays, rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
- Pay enhancements for out of hours, shift, and overtime working
- Generous Pension Scheme
- Career and salary progression
- Car leasing scheme
- Free parking across Trust sites
- Staff networks
- Wide range of discounts from various organizations across the UK
Contact
For further details or informal visits, contact:
- Name: Rhys Griffiths
- Job title: Head of Education
- Email address: Rhys.Griffiths@swast.nhs.uk
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