Overview

Are you a Clinical Educator with a background in Nursing? Do you want to join an award-winning Education and Learning team? St Margaret’s Hospice Care has a fantastic opportunity for a Clinical Educator.

• Salary: £39,340 per annum (pro rata for part time)
• Location: Taunton (Opportunity for Hybrid working, depending on delivery needs)
• Contract: Permanent
• Working Pattern: We can support part time working of 22.5 hours per week up to full time hours of 37

Why Join Our Team

• Award Winning: We have been nominated for awards for our work with students as well as our innovative use of virtual reality in learning.
• Professional Development: Opportunities to develop within Clinical Teaching and Clinical Leadership. We will also support you to maintain your ability to practice.
• Scope for Creativity: Develop your own curriculum and deliver a range of course, including targeted learning for individuals and working within the community delivering training to nursing homes, GPs, and care homes.

What can you expect to be doing?

As part of a team working across the hospice, you will lead on all areas of clinical learning, including clinical skills education and developing our online learning community.

You will also help us to reach audiences we can’t currently reach by delivering training in the community. Working with a wide variety of people, you will really be able to connect with and make a difference to healthcare professionals and organisations across Somerset.

You will play a vital role in:

• Creating a supportive learning environment – Enable learners to become skilled practitioners and advocate for the best end of life care in Somerset.
• Building a skilled workforce - Support clinical staff of all grades and disciplines to achieve their professional objectives, bridging the gap between theory to practice.
• Developing the clinical workforce of the future – Take the lead on upskilling staff and ensuring that excellent care is maintained.

Your day-to-day work will include:

• Working with the Inpatient and Community teams to deliver a programme of clinical skills training
• Planning and delivering training courses for staff and external health care professionals
• Supporting the development of our outreach education session across the county
• Supporting students on placements across the hospice
• Evaluating learners’ progress and performance
• Contributing content to our new learning management system, supporting with its development and maintenance, and the opportunity to develop more online learning
• Contributing to innovation in learning e.g., development of virtual reality

What will you be good at?

You will need to:

• Be a Registered Nurse
• Have significant experience of teaching and education in a health care setting
• Facilitate and deliver high quality training courses
• Understand the broad education context in health care currently
• Be responsive to the training and education needs of the organisation
• Be aware of quality and compliance requirements
• Understand the need for innovation in education and be happy to lead in that space

You will be required to travel to perform this role, with the benefit of receiving competitive rates of mileage allowance. Therefore, access to your own vehicle is essential.

No previous palliative care experience is required. We welcome applications from nurses with a diverse range of training backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team.

What can we offer you?

Holiday entitlement

• 33 days holiday including bank holidays rising to 35 days after 1 year, and increasing with length of service (pro-rata if part-time)
• Recognise continuous service for clinical staff paid at band 5+ who join directly from the NHS or another hospice
• Ability to buy and sell annual leave

Pension scheme

• NHS employees eligible to continue with their NHS pension scheme*
• Non-NHS employees will receive 5.5% employer and 5% employee contribution.

Award-winning Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family offering:

• Vitality & wellbeing health portal for non-emergency care
• Unlimited access to 24/7 online GP Consultations as well as Expert Case Management
• Confidential and free 24-hour Employee Assistance
• Counselling and support
• Legal, financial, and medical information and advice

And more…

• Life assurance cover
• Health Cash Plans
• Blue Light Discount Card
• Enhanced parental leave*
• Excellent learning and development opportunities
• Free on-site parking in Yeovil and Taunton
• Volunteering and fundraising opportunities

*Eligibility criteria applies

Meet the Education Team

If you want to visit the Hospice, meet the team, or arrange a chat before applying, we'd love to hear from you. Just reach out to Sarah Ireland at sarah.ireland at st-margarets-hospice.org.uk and Jo Williams at Jo.williams at st-margarets-hospice.org.uk

Additional Information

For any questions about our recruitment process or to request an application form is sent to you, please contact Recruitment at the st-margarets-hospice.org.uk email. We are currently managing the recruitment process in-house and kindly ask that recruitment agencies refrain from contacting us with candidates for this role.

Unfortunately, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship at this time.

If you have all the information you need, just click apply. We can’t wait to hear from you!

Closing date: 5th October 2025
Interview date: 30th October (12:30 – 4:30 pm) and 5th November (9:00 am – 1:00 pm)