Senior Clinical Educator - Vocational Qualifications
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS TrustWe are East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS), an organisation focused on delivering a high standard of emergency and urgent care to our patients across the region.
The East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) provides Emergency, Urgent and Non-Emergency pre-hospital care and transport across six counties (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Northamptonshire).
Job overview
We are pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician and vocational educator to join EMAS as a Senior Clinical Educator (Vocational Programmes). Applicants must hold recognised teaching and assessor qualifications—such as the Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training, Level 3 Award in Vocational Assessment, or equivalent—and demonstrate recent experience delivering EMAS vocational qualifications.
This pivotal role involves the planning, delivery, assessment, and evaluation of in-house qualifications including the Award in Education and Training (AET), Certificate in Education and Training (CET), and Internal Quality Assurance (IQA). You will help ensure our delivery meets current regulatory, pedagogical, and professional standards.
The postholder will also lead and support a team of educators, contribute to quality assurance and curriculum design, promote learner success through inclusive practice, and mentor colleagues through their CPD and qualification pathways.
This is a home-based post with regular travel across EMAS education sites in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and Northamptonshire.
We seek applicants who are passionate about vocational education, experienced in regulated delivery, confident in Ofqual frameworks, and motivated to support a dispersed, high-quality education service.
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This is a particularly exciting period of development within EMAS Education, with increasing emphasis on supporting our educators to deliver and attain high-quality vocational qualifications across the organisation. You will need to be confident to teach and assess across the range of educational provision. The successful applicant will be supported by a team of peers and the Deputy Head of Education alongside the Head of Education.
It is extremely important that as a SCE that you build close relationships with the divisional management teams to ensure that learners are supported both within and outside of the education centres by both the education and operational management teams.
Due to recent developments within education, you must be confident to deliver blended learning and utilise online systems (for example MS Teams/virtual learning environments) to deliver taught content/sessions. You must also commit to developing blended content and support your team towards these competencies.
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About You
You will need to embrace the EMAS Trust values and be committed to developing and delivering high quality clinical education which is student focused.
You will have a teaching, assessing and mentorship qualification with demonstrable evidence of work based teaching. You must be willing to undertake professional development.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See the attached job description but the main purpose of the job
As part of a shared leadership team:
To ensure effective management of education provision within divisions and associated education facilities
To implement and monitor quality assurance processes within education, to ensure compliance with internal or external standards
To take responsibility for the development, implementation and evaluation of education, training and professional development
The East Midlands has a lot to offer:
Excellent Location
Making a Difference
Action Packed Roles
Support and Belonging
Note on Covid-19 Vaccination status:
It is a clear professional responsibility of all health care staff to be vaccinated. EMAS NHS Trust therefore encourages and supports all employees to be vaccinated as it remains the best line of defence against COVID 19.
Accessibility
If you have any accessibility requirements at any point during the recruitment process, then please contact the recruiting manager.
If you haven’t heard back from us within eight weeks of the closing date please consider your application unsuccessful.
Due to the high volume of applications received we are unable to provide updates on the progress of applications and only successful candidates at shortlisting stage will be contacted, regrettably feedback will not be provided. If you are unsuccessful at this stage please refer back to the job description, person specification and advertised requirements for ways to improve your future applications.
Internal candidates applying for vacancies must have completed their probationary period (stated within your contract) at point of application.
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust is an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We actively encourage interest from across our diverse communities. Black and Minority Ethnic staff are currently under-represented within our workforce, and we welcome applications from within these communities.
We are keen to promote a positive work-life balance. We recognise the importance of being able to spend quality time with family and friends and to engage in your own personal interests outside of work, which alongside work helps us to lead healthy and fulfilling lives. We are committed to embedding the NHS People Promise to support colleagues to work flexibly in a way that works for our patients, for us and for you. Many of our staff already work flexibly in many different ways, including job share, part-time or other flexible working patterns. Please talk openly to us at interview about flexible working opportunities. In addition, if a role is advertised as home based, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations, so please talk to us about the options available to you. If it works for our service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
At EMAS we believe that our culture should be built upon our core values and that our behaviour should reflect these. Our values – respect, integrity, contribution, teamwork and compassion - underpin everything we do – how we deliver our services and how we work with each other. We believe that it’s our people who make EMAS what it is.
Our Vision - Responding to patient needs in the right way, developing our organisation to become outstanding for patients and staff, and collaborating to improve wider healthcare.
Please note we reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy if an internal member of staff on our redeployment register expresses an interest and is successful for this vacancy, or if a sufficient number of applications is received.
Please be aware if you are applying for a Frontline role, an Enhanced DBS clearance check will be required, and depending on the nature of other non-patient facing roles this check may also be required if offered a position with EMAS (All spent and unspent convictions must declared).
If you are not part of the update service, you will be liable for the payment and this will be deducted from your first months’ salary. The current cost of an enhanced DBS check is £55.38.