Radiotherapy Clinical Educator

An exciting position is offered to a Therapeutic Radiographer with a proven and extensive portfolio in clinical education. The successful post holder will be part of a team of innovative clinical educators, working at pace to respond to training and education in the radiotherapy technical and wider systems of care setting. The post holder will support learners at every level.

The post holder will follow systems and processes already in place for new staff training (inductions) and the development of education frameworks and quality assurance within the service.

The work will be flexible, with opportunities when it suits the service, to work from home.

The post holder will cover wider aspects of radiotherapy education, including pre-registration and post registration development. They will facilitate training requirements set out in the services Learning Needs Analysis. The post holder will also support pre-registration learning experience, in order to address future workforce supply. The post holder will align the delivery of their work with Health Education England quality indicators for effective learning environments.

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• Support learners at every level; including individuals with aspirations to join NHS careers
  
• Ensure learners are socialized effectively, cultivating a safe and open learning environment
  
• Support learners through mentorship, supervision, clinical supervision, preceptorship and coaching
  
• Identify and respond to educational learning needs across a range of department, working with Subject Matter Experts to create high quality learning resources and associated competencies
  
• Review education material, learning from incident, to maintain teaching quality and be responsive to organizational learning
  
• Design and deliver teaching material in forms of classroom learning, conferences and publications
  
• Monitor and promote learner wellbeing – involvement in risk assessments, reasonable adjustment, managing absence
  
• Maintain training records and data base
  

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.

We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rachael Edwards Job title: Clinical Service Manager – Radiotherapy Email address: Telephone number: