Clinical Digital Educator
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 16/09/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role involves using digital innovation to improve care and support frontline staff in CQC-registered care homes across South West London. The Clinical Digital Educator will help care homes adopt and embed digital solutions, enhancing the quality, safety, and coordination of resident care. Key responsibilities include delivering clinical and digital training on various health technologies and supporting staff to achieve clinical competencies for safe and effective tool usage. The role aims to build confidence, competence, and digital maturity within care homes.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with current NMC registration or Registered Health Care Professional with current HCPC registration
- Degree/Diploma level Education in relevant area
Desirable criteria
- Mentoring or coaching qualification
- Post Graduate Certificate in Education
- Teaching Qualification or willingness to work towards one
- Experience at working in a community health settings
- Significant clinical experience
- Recent evidence of continuing personal and professional development
- Experience of teaching and facilitation of clinical skills and digital skills in healthcare and/or social care settings
- Experience of giving formal presentations
- Experience providing Clinical Support
- Experience of working with Care Homes and establishing trusted relationships
- Experience of working in a care home setting to implement change
- Project management experience
- Skills & Knowledge
- Evidence of change management skills
- Proven workload and diary management
- Knowledge of the care home landscape and how to implement change in it.
- Advanced IG knowledge
- Knowledge of the NEWS2 and RESTORE2 systems
- Experience supporting staff to use digital technology such as Remote Monitoring, UCP, London Shared Care Records
- Education/Qualification
- Registered Nurse with current NMC registration or Registered Health Care Professional with current HCPC registration
- Degree/Diploma level Education in relevant area
- Mentoring or coaching qualification
- Post Graduate Certificate in Education
- Teaching Qualification or willingness to work towards one
- Experience at working in a community health settings
- Significant clinical experience
- Recent evidence of continuing personal and professional development
- Experience of teaching and facilitation of clinical skills and digital skills in healthcare and/or social care settings
- Experience of giving formal presentations
- Experience providing Clinical Support
- Experience of working with Care Homes and establishing trusted relationships
- Experience of working in a care home setting to implement change
- Project management experience
- Skills & Knowledge
- Evidence of change management skills
- Proven workload and diary management
- Knowledge of the care home landscape and how to implement change in it.
- Advanced IG knowledge
- Knowledge of the NEWS2 and RESTORE2 systems
- Experience supporting staff to use digital technology such as Remote Monitoring, UCP, London Shared Care Records
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £58,133 – £65,261 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Central London Community Health Trust
Clinical Digital Educator
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
Are you passionate about using digital innovation to improve care and support frontline staff to deliver the best possible outcomes? As a Clinical Digital Educator (CDE), you will play a key role in helping CQC-registered care homes across South West London embrace and embed digital solutions that enhance the quality, safety and coordination of care for residents.
Working closely with care home staff, managers, digital champions, health and social care colleagues, and wider system partners, you will help build confidence, competence and digital maturity within care homes. Acting as a local digital education lead and advocate, you will support the successful integration of digital approaches into everyday practice and contribute to a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
You will deliver clinical and digital training on a range of health-related technologies and tools, including Remote Monitoring, Universal Care Plan, London Shared Care Record, eRed Bag, Digital Social Care Records, NHSmail, the Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT), RESTORE2 and other agreed digital solutions.
The role includes supporting care staff to achieve and maintain the clinical competencies required to use assessment, escalation and communication tools safely and
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