Clinical Skills Tutor

Working Part time: 22.5 hours per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part time 22.5 hour post as clinical skills tutor for medical education. If you are a suitably experienced, innovative and enthusiastic Registered Nurse or AHP this may be the opportunity for you. You will be working within a small but dynamic team providing clinical skills and simulation.

The successful candidate will continue to develop skills of advanced clinical reasoning, leadership and supervision in a supportive environment.

They will be required to support the clinical skills lead for medical education ensuring the delivery of high-quality education and assessment, as well as acting as an effective role model for the team with whom they work, ensuring the excellent ethos of Multidisciplinary working with clinical fellows.

The successful candidate will be expected to undertake day shifts only.

If you feel that you meet the above criteria and person specification, then this is the opportunity for you.

To work within the Resuscitation, Clinical Skills and Simulation team to enhance and improve the clinical competency of multidisciplinary staff, with the focus on development and support for undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff. To provide clinical education and training to all grades of trust staff, supporting the achievement of departmental targets, KPIs and service improvement projects. To lead on specific service improvement projects as delegated by the departmental team leader.

The Trust’s services are provided from three locations:

The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 473 general and acute beds. Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 60 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility. Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust employs 5,964 staff (headcount) to provide care and treatment to a population of over 400,000 people living in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire.

The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System. Due to its location on the border with North Wales, the Trust also works closely with the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.

The Trust treats patients from England and some parts of Wales. During 2024/2025, there were approximately 643,000 patient attendances (inpatient, A&E, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Steven Hughes Job title: Medical Education Clinical Skills Lead Email address: steven.hughes3@nhs.net Telephone number: 01244 364699