Practice Educator

Job summary
We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Practice Educator to support the growing workforce within the West Wing Clinical Research Centre (WWCRC). This role will lead on education, clinical competency, and workforce development across the unit, supporting staff delivering increasingly complex oncology clinical trials. The successful candidate will coordinate induction and onboarding programmes, deliver teaching and clinical training, support competency assessment, and contribute to improving staff experience, retention, and professional development.

Main duties of the job
A key aspect of the role will be working closely with clinical research teams, pharmacy, and other multidisciplinary stakeholders to ensure a coordinated and consistent approach to service delivery across the unit. Applicants should have substantial oncology experience, excellent communication and leadership skills, and a strong interest in education and clinical research. This is an exciting opportunity to influence and support the continued growth and development of a specialist clinical research workforce.

About us
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals - one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey - as well as a Medical Day-care Unit in Kingston Hospital.

At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.

At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.

Job responsibilities

• Demonstrate clinical practice expertise in drug development by working alongside nurses on the WWCRC
• Assess the development needs of staff nurses and with the Ward sister of WWCRC write a professional development plan to enable them to gain clinical competence in cancer setting and increase their awareness of the evidence underpinning practice and how to use it in their daily work.
• Maintaining personal clinical competence, credibility and professional development in line with the NMC requirements
• Participating in the Clinical Education Team meetings
• Participating in interviewing for recruitment activities as required.
• Supporting other members of the Clinical Education team in the development of newly qualified nurses within the Trust

Person Specification
Attainment
Essential

• First level registration
• Post registration oncology qualification at degree level
• Hold registered mentor qualification

Experience
Essential

• Proven experience as a clinical trials nurse in the area of drug development
• Experience in supervising/facilitating students in practice

Desirable

• Previous teaching and research experience

Aptitude & Disposition
Essential

• Ability to communicate well with the multidisciplinary team
• Confident and articulate
• Committed to personal and professional development
• Ability to make decisions, organise and prioritise
• Ability to introduce change
• Able to work unsupervised
• Understanding of evidence based practice
• Ability to how to communicate implementation of evidence based practice to others.
• Ability to work flexible hours as required to meet service needs
• Ability to work across sites if required

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.