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Job summary

Main area
Informatics
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
349-COR-7108779*
Employer
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Trafford House
Town
Wythenshawe
Salary
£29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/04/2025 23:59

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Hive EPR & Digital – Junior Trainer

NHS AfC: Band 5

Job overview

Design cutting-edge training that transforms an outstanding NHS Trust.

An  opportunity to bring your expertise and join us at this exciting time in the programme. With your help, we’ll build on our leading initiatives and transform our services for the benefit of patients and staff alike.

As an Junior Trainer, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering meaningful, useful training, working closely with clinical, administrative and managerial colleagues to ensure it supports both clinical and operational needs. 

Joining us, you’ll gain knowledge to help you design and deliver training materials. . And, leading the design and ongoing maintenance of the training environment, including the patient scenarios, workflows and example data used, you’ll also be involved in testing the system to ensure that its safe, usable and secure.  

You'll  be supporting staff across the Trust to successfully complete the workflow-based training.

Main duties of the job

1. Plan, design and deliver a range of training courses for clinical and business applications in classroom, 1-1 and online settings. 
2. Support colleagues across the Trust to provide application support, advice and guidance required. 
3. Process map departmental and individual workflows to ensure effective delivery of role specific training. 
4. Work as part of the clinical applications team, ensuring that staff are fully trained and reviewed on a regular basis in order to promote to users a high standard of data quality, in accordance with local and national standards. 
5. Ensure that all materials associated with IT training and its publicity (online booking forms, user guides, web-based training material, training pages on the  Trust's intranet) are kept uniformly updated in line with changes to the software and/or business processes. 
6. The successful candidate will be empathetic, approachable, patient, and respectful and will be able to take appropriate decisions whilst in charge in the training room.  

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. 

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary. 

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022. 

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable. 
 
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading.  So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.  
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected]
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Qualifications/ Training/Education

Essential criteria
  • Post/Training relevant qualification.
  • Demonstrable Training experience.
Desirable criteria
  • Training accreditation
  • Prince 2
  • TAP certified
  • ITIL (or other similar IT Qualifications)

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of delivering training to large/small groups or one to one
  • Experience of process mapping and change management.
  • Experience of providing IT Skills Training
  • Experience of presenting complex systems to individuals
  • Experience of troubleshooting a variety of end user system issues
  • Experience of writing and preparing training materials for the above systems
  • Evidence of working within the full training cycle
  • Experience of dealing with a variety of people at different levels
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working in the NHS/Public Sector.
  • Experience of delivering training in Healthcare systems.

IT Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent IT Skills, including ability to demonstrate skills in MS Office Applications.
  • Sound understanding of Technical IT, and issue resolution processes.
Desirable criteria
  • IT Accreditation

Communication Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Able to clearly demonstrate the I.T. systems

Organisational Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent organisational skills – methodical approach.
  • Ability to prioritise work and meet deadlines.
  • Ability to work without direct supervision.
  • Able to work alone and as part of a team

Analytical/Problem Solving Skills

Essential criteria
  • Logical approach and ability to use initiative to solve problems.
  • Able to demonstrate an understanding of the Data Protection Act.

Other

Essential criteria
  • Flexible approach to the working day
  • Able to manage individual workload to meet deadlines and budgets
  • Able to sustain concentration for prolonged periods despite interruptions to provide diagnosis and resolution of complex problems
  • Able to provide interpretation and guidance to relevant systems users.
  • Ability to travel for meetings, and between hospital sites Tactful and diplomati
  • The ability to remain calm and professional under pressure
  • Willingness to undertake training Pro-active and able to work on own initiative
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to Travel

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Wendy Isherwood
Job title
Training Manager
Email address
[email protected]
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