Job reference: 002193
Salary: Band 7 - £49,387-£56,515
Closing date: 02/10/2026
Department: RaD72 NIHR Research Delivery Network
Location: Cross Site
Division: NIHR RRDN Core
Hours Per Week: 37.5

Job Summary
Are you interested in helping to shape the local landscape of Health and Social Care research delivery? Then join our team as a Research Delivery Practice Educator and inspire excellence, innovation, and workforce development across the Yorkshire and Humber Regional Research Delivery Network.

As a Research Delivery Practice Educator, you will play a key role in developing the research delivery and clinical skills of the NIHR Regional Research Delivery Network (RRDN) Agile Research Delivery Team. Working within the Workforce Development function, you will design and deliver high-quality education and training, support research delivery partners to identify and address skills gaps, and ensure staff maintain the competencies required to deliver safe, effective, and high-quality health and social care research. You will collaborate with colleagues across the RRDN and wider research community to drive workforce development, share best practice, and enhance research delivery capability across the region.

This role will cover the whole of the Yorkshire and Humber region. The post holder will have a contractual base. Currently have contractual bases operational bases at Leeds, Sheffield, York and Willerby.

What you will bring to the role
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Working closely with the Workforce and People Senior Manager you will:

• Lead the development and delivery of research practice education and clinical skills training for the Agile Research Delivery Team.
• Design, deliver and evaluate innovative learning and development programmes that enhance workforce capability and research delivery excellence.
• Provide expert guidance, mentorship and competency assessment to research delivery staff across a range of clinical and non-clinical research settings.
• Support the professional development of multidisciplinary staff, including mentoring new team members and facilitating formal learning interventions.
• Identify workforce skills gaps and collaborate with partners to develop effective training solutions and workforce development initiatives.
• Ensure clinical research staff maintain the knowledge, skills and competencies required to meet regulatory, sponsor and organisational standards.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with regional and national stakeholders, education providers, healthcare organisations and research partners.
• Contribute to regional and national workforce development projects, service improvement initiatives and the implementation of the NIHR Research Delivery Network Workforce Strategy.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, innovation and inclusive learning across the research delivery workforce.
• Act as a professional role model and ambassador for the NIHR and Research Delivery Network, championing high-quality research delivery and patient-centred care.

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

• Patient-centred
• Collaborative
• Fair
• Accountable
• Empowered

All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values

We’re committed to recruiting exceptional people to deliver outstanding services across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and helping every colleague reach their full potential. We’re looking for a compassionate, inclusive, and collaborative leader who shares our values and can build strong partnerships. We warmly invite applications from people from a variety of backgrounds and sectors, and are especially keen to hear from individuals from a minority ethnic background. We’re dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and has a true sense of belonging, as we work together to deliver the best in healthcare to the people of Leeds and beyond.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.