Clinical Educator - Theatres and Cardiac Services

Job Description:

Clinical Educator- Theatres and Cardiac Services

Cromwell Hospital, SW5 0TU (5 mins walk from Earls Court underground or 7 mins walk from Gloucester Road underground.)

£55,000 per annum and above, dependant on experience.

Permanent.

Monday to Friday.37.5 hrs a week, 7.5 hr shifts a day.

Application closing date: 23 October 2026

We make health happen.

At Bupa, you can be the Nurse you want to be. With the autonomy to use your skills and strong benefits to support you, patient care can be your top priority.

Building a career in Nursing has never been easier, with good hours, you can live a balanced, healthy lifestyle.

The Cromwell Hospital, our flagship private hospital in West London, delivers world-class inpatient and outpatient care. With 180 beds, 6 theatres, advanced intensive care units, paediatrics, diagnostics, physiotherapy, and private GP services – it is a centre of excellence for complex care and innovation.

At Bupa, we are proud to offer access to our state-of-the-art Clinical Training Academy in Staines – a cutting-edge space for immersive learning, innovation and growth. With advanced simulation labs, XR and VR tech, and digital training environments, it is where we’re shaping the future of healthcare.

You’ll help us make health happen by:

The Clinical Educator is responsible for leading education, competency development, induction and professional development across operating theatres, cardiac and angiography services, interventional services, and associated perioperative areas. You will work collaboratively with clinical and operational leaders, consultants, and the wider Clinical Education Team to build a skilled, competent, and compliant workforce that delivers safe, effective, evidence-based, and person-centred care.

The role combines clinical education with practice development, governance, and quality improvement. You will be a visible and accessible expert resource, translating learning from incidents, complaints, audits, patient feedback, research and national guidance into targeted education and sustainable improvements in practice. The role will also support the safe introduction of new equipment, technologies, procedures, and service developments.

• Lead the development, delivery and evaluation of an annual education and workforce development plan for Theatres, Cardiac and Perioperative Services.
• Design, implement and review specialty-specific competency frameworks and learning pathways for scrub practice, anaesthetics, recovery, angiography, Surgical First Assistants, Surgical Care Practitioners, robotic surgery, interventional procedures, and advanced clinical skills.
• Assess and sign off competence using direct observation, supervised practice, simulation, clinical work records, and other appropriate assessment methods.
• Deliver high-quality classroom, practical and clinical teaching for registered professionals, support workers, students, and multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Support preceptorship, mentorship, practice assessment, and clinical supervision, ensuring staff who undertake assessment responsibilities are appropriately prepared.
• Identify individual and service-learning needs and develop targeted programmes in response to clinical priorities, audit findings, incidents, complaints, patient feedback, research, national guidance, and service change.
• Maintain accurate competency, attendance and training records and provide clear reports on workforce capability.

 

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• Current NMC registration as a Registered Nurse or HCPC registration as an Operating Department Practitioner.
• Degree in Nursing, Operating Department Practice, or a related healthcare discipline, or working towards.
• Practice Assessor, mentorship, teaching or assessing qualification, or equivalent experience.
• PG Cert in Education- Desirable
• A minimum of 3 years clinical experience in operating theatres, cardiac, angiography or perioperative services, with the ability to practise at the level required by the post.
• Experience of delivering, monitoring, and evaluating clinical education and competency-based programmes.
• Experience assessing clinical competence and developing competencies, protocols, or learning resources.
• Experience supporting clinical audit, governance, quality improvement, and implementation of change.
  
  

Benefits

Our benefits are driven by what matters to our people. It’s important to us that these benefits support a work-life balance that keeps people healthy, both mentally and physically. As a Theatre Practitioner, you’ll be eligible for: 

 

• Payment of professional registration fees 
• Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell. Plus Bank Holidays
• Enhanced pension and life insurance
• Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work. 
• Discounted access to online gym sessions
• Annual Health Services Bonus Scheme
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• Option to join dental insurance scheme at a discounted rate.
• Access to our Digital GP platform on you mobile
• Emotional wellbeing support
• Access to family mental health line
• Financial wellbeing channels
• Support for carers

 

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

 

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.  That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

 

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them. 

 

At Bupa we strive to ensure all our of customers, patients and staff are safe.  All employees have a duty to ensure that safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk is prioritised and acted on appropriately

 

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com  

 

If you would like more information on the role, please contact serina.kapoor@bupa.com

 

 

 

 

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

Nursing & Theatres

Locations:

Cromwell Hospital London