Job summary
Are you a passionate, experienced nurse with a drive to develop others and shape the future workforce? We're looking for a dynamic Practice Educator to join our team and play a vital role in strengthening clinical skills, improving patient outcomes, and supporting care closer to home

As a Practice Educator, you will design, deliver and evaluate high-quality training programmes for the primary, community and independent contractor workforce. Working alongside senior nursing leads, you'll ensure education aligns with strategic priorities, supports service transformation, and equips staff to deliver safe, evidence-based, person-centred care.

You will empower both registered and non-registered staff by building competence, supporting professional development and promoting a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply

Main duties of the job

• Design and deliver training programmes to develop clinical skills and professional knowledge across the workforce
• Assess and support staff competence, ensuring safe, high-quality, evidence-based care
• Identify learning needs and contribute to training needs analysis and workforce development planning
• Provide mentorship and supervision to nurses and healthcare support workers
• Support service improvement and innovation in education and clinical practice
• Collaborate with senior nurses and stakeholders across primary care, community services, and care homes
• Evaluate training effectiveness and contribute to quality, audit, and policy development
• Promote patient safety and reduce avoidable admissions by strengthening community-based care

About us
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB) is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation serving the communities of Gwent. With more than 14,000 staff and volunteers, we provide safe, high-quality, and compassionate care across hospitals, GP practices, community services, and mental health settings. As a University Health Board, research, education, and innovation are central to our work, supporting evidence-based practice and continuous improvement.

Our work is guided by the Gwent Strategy 2025-2035, which sets out our long-term ambition to create a fairer and healthier future for our population. We focus on prevention, reducing health inequalities, and working in partnership with local authorities, voluntary organisations, and communities to improve health and wellbeing.

We are committed to creating an inclusive, supportive workplace where people feel valued, respected, and able to develop. Our values of Kindness, Integrity, and Respect shape how we care for patients and how we treat one another.

We offer a wide range of learning and development opportunities, flexible working where possible, and a comprehensive NHS benefits package. Working for ABUHB means being part of an organisation that values its people and offers the chance to build a meaningful and rewarding career while making a real difference to the lives of others.

Job responsibilities
The post holder will support the Senior Nurse, the Clinical Lead nurse and the Divisional Lead Nurses to ensure that nurse education and the acquisition of advanced nursing skills across the NHS, Neighbourhood Care Networks and the independent sector is aligned with the Primary Care Plan for Wales, the Divisions Integrated Medium Term Plan, the ABUHB Nursing Strategy, Professional Development Strategies, and that patient experience, quality and patient safety is at the centre of service delivery. They will facilitate the delivery of such educational needs to ensure that the Primary Care and community nursing workforce is fit for purpose and able to deliver evidenced based quality of care within our community. The post holder will provide clinical skills, competence training and information sessions aimed at upskilling the registered and un-registered workforce across the Division and the independent sector, in order to reduce avoidable hospital admissions, whilst ensuring that the ethos of quality and patient safety and organisational learning is fully embraced and is an integral part of patient care. The focus of training and skill acquisition across the division and independent sector will be to ensure patients are supported to remain in their own home environment, cared for by competent nurses and Health Care Support Workers.

This is in line with the Primary Care Plan, the Welsh Government plan for health and social care A Healthier Wales and ABUHB Care Closer to home strategy. On occasions, the post holder will be expected to provide support for care home staff to enable them to manage a complex clinical caseload until such time that nursing staff are competent to deliver that care. The post holder will have a key role in delivery of the skills and competence training to support the integration agenda, including responsibility for clinical competency assessments, whilst ensuring that the ethos of patient experience, improving quality of life, quality and patient safety and organisational learning is fully embraced and is an integral part of patient care. The post holder will be expected to independently deliver training sessions when required.

Responsible to
Reporting: Senior Nurse for the Primary and community Care Academy
Accountable: Clinical lead Nurse for the Primary and Community Care Academy
Professionally: Divisional Nurse Primary and Community Complex & Long-Term care

Responsibilities and Duties
To plan, develop and deliver training programmes for clinical skills and professional training in response to identified learning needs for the Primary Care, Community nursing, practice nursing workforce and independent sector registered and unregistered workforce in line with education agenda ensuring cognisant of both current and future nursing lead requirements.
To support care home and Primary & Community Care staff to develop the knowledge and skills to deliver high quality effective care, and reduce the numbers of avoidable hospital admissions with a priority focus on those living with long term conditions.
Facilitating and where appropriate delivering training to ensure that the staff are clinically competent to provide high quality safe, person-centred care.
To support the identification and evaluation of innovative solutions as they relate to nurse education and professional development, taking account of the conflicting demands of the service and complex facts to analyse, interpret and evaluate a range of options.
To provide support to the senior nursing team in order to develop modern, evidence based Primary Care & Community care education which are high quality, cost effective and responsive to community health care needs.
To liaise with the Senior Nurses, including Independent Sector nurses and non-clinical care home managers to ensure that practice development is targeted towards patients needs.
To support the senior nurse and lead nurses in the development of the Annual Training Needs Analysis. This will include an annual training needs analysis of community nurses, practice nurses and independent sector nurses.
To support the Divisional key priorities and delivery actions as identified in the Integrated medium-term plan (IMTP), by prioritising workload being receptive to identified needs and working to timescales and targets.
To provide specialist advice and direction on all aspects of nurse education and contributing to corporate decision making at an operational level using a high level of influencing and negotiation skills.
To regularly review and update all Primary Care & Community induction/orientation programmes within directly managed nursing services to ensure that they outline core responsibilities, behaviours, values and expectations of the Health Board in accordance with service needs. This will include the responsibility to have oversight of professional induction in GP practices and nursing homes.
To participate in the formal monitoring of standards. This may be through the instigation and carrying out of service evaluations, support the coordination of policy development and Clinical Audit to monitor standards.
To support the Senior Nurse in the development of programmes and professional competency frameworks where none exist.
To contribute to meeting the learning needs of team members, sharing expertise and evaluating training undertaken.
To act as a clinical mentor to other nurses, provide supervision and mentorship regardless of grade.

Person Specification
Qualification and knowledge
Essential

• 1st level Nurse, NMC registered RGN, with current registration.
• Teaching qualification or equivalent demonstrable level of knowledge and experience.
• Education to degree level plus specialist clinical knowledge to postgraduate diploma level.

Desirable

• PGCE
• Practice Assessor / Supervisor
• Knowledge of Primary Care Nursing

Experience
Essential

• Substantial post registration experience in primary or community care.
• Ability to analyse data and identify trends, attained through degree level education or relevant experience.
• Sound knowledge of Primary and Community care nursing.
• Proven record of delivering nurse and patient education.

Desirable

• Experience in delivering simulation-based education.
• Experience of change management.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.