Job summary
- Main area
- education and development
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 846-6492858-UJ
- Employer
- Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hybrid Home and Trinity House
- Town
- Ashford
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Learning Environment Lead (Entry Level programmes)
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
The NHS is changing. More emphasis on community-based care means there’s never been a better time to join us.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and organised Learning Environment Lead to join our professional Education and Development team..
We’re a close team but we’re never exclusive, if you can bring a professional approach and fresh ideas we would love to hear from you.
The Learning Environment Lead (Entry Level Programmes) will work strategically with all teams and key stakeholders to ensure engagement in the development of programmes to underpin career pathways for Band 1-4, including but not exclusively limited to, using apprenticeships.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring there are flexible, career developing programmes to meet the needs of staff including bands 1-4 including planning, coordinating and promoting learning events and conferences, i.e. National Learning at Work Week.
The post holder will contribute to curriculum design and review to ensure that patient and service needs are reflected in vocational and technical education provision and provide written reports and action plans to promote and explain key widening participation agendas and report on progress and achievements to include achievement of apprenticeship targets.
Working for our organisation
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent
We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences
We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission
The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
See where you can go with KCHFT career pathways
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Specialist related degree and evidence of relevant post graduate development at Level 6 or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Coaching or training qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing complex formal and informal processes
- Experience of managing projects and undertaking evaluation
- Intermediate experience of a financial system
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of NHS Community Services
Skills
Essential criteria
- Project Management Skills
- Effective leadership, influencing, persuading and negotiating skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including solid presentation skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- In depth specialist knowledge
- Design and development of standard and bespoke data reports
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel to diverse sites
- Ability to deal with distressing or emotional situations and discussions frequently, objectively and with emotional intelligence
- Ability to manage own time effectively
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Verity Barton
- Job title
- Head of Education and Development
- Email address
- [email protected]
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