Operational Lead for Professional Development, Education and Workforce

☞ Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

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Update day: 25-05-2024

Location: Nottingham East Midlands

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Job type: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Salary: £48,526 - £54,619 a year

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8a

Main area
Corporate Nursing
Grade
8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
164-5203655-A
Site
Queens Medical Centre
Town
Nottingham
Salary
£48,526 - £54,619 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
22/05/2023 23:59

Job overview

An exciting opportunity to join the Medicine divisional management team to manage, lead and develop the strategic plan for Professional Development, Education and Workforce within the division.The support in practice and development of our teams forms a fundamental part of the division’s recruitment and retention strategy.

The post holder will work closely with the Divisional Nurse, Deputy Divisional Nurse and divisional leadership team to provide optimum quality and experience of care in line with national healthcare standards.

Medicine is the largest inpatient Division at NUH supporting over 35 wards and one of the largest Emergency Departments in the UK. We have a budget of £287 million and employ over 3000 staff. The Division is organised into three Directorates made up of ten specialties across Queens Medical Centre and Nottingham City Hospital sites including over 750 inpatient beds with associated clinics and a cardiac surgery unit.

We are a busy and fast-paced division with a large and diverse workforce whose health and well-being is a key priority. We respond flexibly to the day to day operational pressures that we face whilst adapting and developing new ways of working as the needs and expectations of our population change over time. We aim to maintain a clear vision and focus on the long term goals, objectives and priorities for the future and we rarely stand still for long!

Main duties of the job

In addition to the below summary you need to familiarize yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.

The post holder will lead on the development, implementation and evaluation of educational, continuing professional development and workforce planning to support the division in its mission for “Right Skills Right Place Right Time” with a continual improving trajectory of staff experience, turnover and reduction in nursing vacancies, promoting an underpinning culture of lifelong learning and excellence.

Leading on innovative approaches to developing practice, promoting and sharing best practice, the post holder will horizon scan new ways of working and delivery of education to maximise the effectiveness and efficiency of all education and training programmes. This will include various methods from Clinical Academic careers to experiential learning tailored to the holistic needs of our people; this will be achieved by the operationalising of the organisations workforce & talent management strategy. Continuing our journey on making Medicine division the “place of choice to work.

The post holder will provide strong clinical leadership and be highly visible and accessible to staff, students and other learners.

To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification documents.

Working for our organisation

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) was established in 2006 and we are one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country and provide services to over 2.5 million residents of Nottingham.

NUH are, by any measure, a large, complex, person-centred organisation. With over 17,000 employees from a wide range of professional backgrounds, they are one of the region’s largest employers.

NUH has an excellent national and international reputation for the quality of their patient care and for their research, education and innovation. They have strong links to the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University and Loughborough University. This allows for the provision of excellent training and education for their students, as well as being a major research organisation.

For information about the Trust, including business plans, annual reports, and services, visit their website.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust have various staff benefits. Some of the benefits of working for NUH include;

Access to the Staff Wellbeing programme including our 24hour staff advice and emotional support service, financial advice service, a staff physiotherapy service and staff support networks

Access to Spiritual and Pastoral Care Services

Salary sacrifice schemes

Cycle to work and travel passes

NHS discounts

Flexible working

Details of these and other benefits can be found on our intranet pages which you will have access when you commence with Team NUH.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification for key duties and responsibilities.


Person specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria

  • Qualified Clinical Practitioner Registered with appropriate regulatory body (NMC. HPC, GMC)
  • Evidence of undertaking or completed Masters degree programme
  • Additional related clinical specialist qualification
  • Teaching and assessing qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

  • Recent experience at a senior level including extensive clinical practice experience across a range of specialities, leading project management, change management, and multidisciplinary working.
  • Experience of leading and managing large education projects
  • Evidence of having achieved challenging organisational targets
  • Experience of leading projects in a complex organisation
  • Experience of developing complex training and education programmes
  • Experience and understanding of key organisational, nursing and midwifery objectives and how research and education links to the Nursing and Midwifery strategy
  • Extensive experience of teaching, developing and facilitating education programmes to the interprofessional team
  • Evidence of leading projects across health and social care settings/clinical practice, teaching and research
  • Experience in national /international networking and presenting to diverse audiences.
  • Evidence of current clinical practice in a range of acute care settings

Communication and relationship skills

Essential criteria

  • Excellent communications skills (written and oral) to the multi-professional team at a variety of levels
  • Ability to lead and build successful teams
  • Ability to lead, influence and motivate staff to deliver challenging targets
  • Able to influence the direction and decisions of Nursing and Midwifery services, Trust and external audiences as required, including Higher education institutions and other stakeholders.
  • Ability to present highly complex data to a variety of audiences
  • Good negotiating skills
  • Ability to manage conflict

Analytical and Judgement skills

Essential criteria

  • Excellent problem solving skills using internal and external sources of expertise when appropriate
  • Sensitive to clinical and political demands
  • Innovative thinker with the ability to cut through barriers to change
  • Evidence of an ability to analyse, interpret and present highly complex, multi-stranded data in appropriate forms
  • Ability to think laterally, identify and evaluate options for education and training programmes in delivering the aims of the Institute for Nursing and Midwifery Care Excellence.
  • Develop and present workable solutions to complex service and education issues taking into account internal and external political environments.
  • Presents plans supported by reasoned argument and evidence.

Planning and organisation skills

Essential criteria

  • Excellent organisation skills
  • Ability to lead and sustain high workload through times of service and organisational pressure
  • Ability to chair and/or participate actively in meetings, seminars and conferences
  • Performance management skills and techniques to enable accurate real-time progress
  • Ability to diagnose and take remedial action where education programmes are slipping from their targets.
  • Ability to prioritise a number of competing priorities

Other requirements

Essential criteria

  • Well developed IT skills to manage and report on complex performance management information systems
  • Able to move and handle teaching and training equipment
  • Able to undertake clinical duties as required by a registered nurse within NUH
  • Skilled and competent to practice and teach advanced clinical nursing skills
  • Able to work flexibly across campuses and different locations as required

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Bring your whole self to work for us at NUH. We love diversity and we value your difference, your unique skills, knowledge and experience. Becoming one of our people may realise your potential, helping us to raise our performance in delivering world class healthcare to the diverse patient populations we serve.

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are currently under-represented at NUH.

Covid-19 vaccination: remains the best way to protect yourself, family, colleagues and our patients/service users from the Covid-19 virus. We continue to encourage our current and potential colleagues to get vaccinated. For helpful advice and information about the Covid-19 vaccination and how to access visit: https://nottsccg.nhs.uk/covid-19/covid-19-vaccinations/

Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.

Easy read application: if you have a disability and find it difficult to complete our online application form, you can apply via our easy read application which you can find on the intranet https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/easy-read-job-application

Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

Skilled Workers Visa: We welcome applications from individuals who require a skilled worker visa in line with the Home Office regulations. NON-UK/NON SETTLED candidates may not be appointed, if a suitably qualified and skilled UK/SETTLED candidate is successful at interview stage as it is unlikely that the Trust is able to satisfy the Home Office Visa requirements

ID and Right to work checks: NUH authenticate all ID and right to work documentation such as passports, visa’s and driving license through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.

Consent:

  • Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Departmentconfidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
  • Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£41.90 for enhanced and £21.90 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month’s pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.
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Deadline: 09-07-2024

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