Job summary
- Main area
- Allied Health Professions
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 990-MID-6662240-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 23 Stephenson Street
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/11/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 28/11/2024
Employer heading
Senior Education Manager - Allied health Professions
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
By acting as a fully integrated member of the WTE Regional Clinical Leadership Team (AHP) you will ensure that the AHP agenda and regional delivery is achieved.
Supporting the Assistant Director of Clinical Leadership and Education – AHP, in the overall management, development, and organisation of the WTE Regional AHP team including the regional quality management, improvement, and associated education commissioning and performance management programme aligned to the priorities set out within the WTE Mandate and the WTE Quality Framework in the context of regulatory requirements.
Main duties of the job
Communicate, provide, and present highly complex information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including:
- Regional ICS footprint
- NHS England
- Local Authorities
- NHS ICB Chief AHPs, Provider Chief AHPs, AHP Council Chairs, Managers & Clinicians.
- General Practice providers
- Public Health England
- Local authority representatives
- Independent Sector
- Education providers
- Chief AHP Officer for England and the National WT&E AHP programme
- Professional and statutory regulators
- Sector Skills Councils (Skills for Health and Skills for Care).
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Delivering Results/Functional Responsibilities
- Responsible for programme delivery for an assigned portfolio of local and shared regional programmes of work.
- Develops long-term, strategic delivery plans for assigned programmes of work.
- Responsible for setting and managing the performance of allocated AHP programmes against short, medium, and long-term key performance indicators.
- Accurately evaluates stakeholder needs from a range of qualitative and quantitative data sources (programme performance data, strategic delivery plans stakeholders’ input, commissioned research.)
- Prioritisation and delegation of complex and competing/conflicting work programmes (e.g., differing ICS priorities within the footprint, differing education provider views etc.Uses insight, experience, and an evidence-based approach (data triangulation, after action review, information systems etc.) to inform decision making.
- Delegated budget-setting responsibility for a number of assigned workforce transformation programmes, ensuring projects are delivered within agreed departmental budget, financial risks are reported and managed, and value for the taxpayer.
- Responsible for ensuring programmes of work are aligned to and successfully deliver regional strategic objectives, KPIs and regulatory compliance.
- Adapts plans to account changes in government policy, system needs, technological advances, and evaluation of a range of performance data.
- Deputises for the Assistant Director of Clinical Leadership and Education – AHP
- Building strong relationships with senior (Board and Chief AHP level) external stakeholders, influencing decision making to achieve strategic outcomes where no formal line management or organisational spheres of control existDelegated authority to negotiate to gain consensus amongst senior external stakeholders on complex and contentious issues in a political environment relating to local/regional workforce transformation priorities.
- Ensures the appropriate allocation of internal/external resources and managing risk across a number of competing work programmes to ensure timescales/targets are met.
- Measures an evaluates the outcomes of strategic, tactical, and operational decision making and performance of the programme portfolio using evidence-based approach and the appropriate use of robust performance management and research methodologies, information systems research and reporting (weekly and monthly reporting aggregating to quarterly review and contributing to annual reviews).
- Ensure the adoption of best practice and learning from AHP programmes outcomes are shared regionally and inform future workforce transformation strategy.
- Line management responsibility a project team, including performance review and development support, contributes to setting strategic objective and responsible for translating into tactical priorities ensuring alignment with WTE national and external agenda.
- Procure/commission programmes of work as requested.
- To produce reports on progress against plan, for internal assurance, ICSs and other Boards and Committees as required
Person specification
Qualifications & Experience
Essential criteria
- Holds a current registration with a UK Healthcare Regulator.
- Master’s Level or equivalent level of experience.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Extensive knowledge of specialist area of Nursing, Midwifery or AHPs, acquired through postgraduate education or equivalent experience.
Desirable criteria
- Holds current registration with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or General Osteopathic Council (GOC)
ED&I
Essential criteria
- Evidence of championing & promoting equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI)
Skills Capabilities and Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Skilled communicator able to select from, and utilise, a range of high-level negotiating and influencing strategies appropriate to different audiences and environments.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of Nursing, Midwifery or AHP development in healthcare to include workforce development approaches education development and commissioning.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helen Marriott & Carol Love-Mecrow
- Job title
- Asst Dir of CLE AHP & AP Dep Dir of CLE NMW & AHP
- Email address
- [email protected]
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