Job summary
- Main area
- Learning & Development
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Cover maternity leave)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon - Fri)
- Job ref
- 151-SR156
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Heatherwood Hospital
- Town
- Ascot
- Salary
- £37,162 - £44,629 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/06/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Learning and Development Advisor
Band 6
Job overview
A trust wide role providing coordination of training programmes, particularly Corporate Induction and Apprenticeships. Whilst acting as a lead specialist on Widening Participation initiatives, for example T-Levels, Supported Internships and Work Experience
Main duties of the job
Lead the development and co-ordinate Corporate Induction and monitor local induction completions
Ensure activities associated with widening participation are managed within contract and that data between teams is monitored accordingly
Act as a specialist on apprenticeships, including the commissioning and coordination of apprenticeship standards
Undertake quality assurance activity for internal and external programmes
Working for our organisation
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Contribute to the Learning and OD Strategy as part of the Trust Learning and OD Team participating in the annual training cycle to identify training needs.
- To support the development of widening participation strategies, enabling the trust to provide a best in class scheme
- Commission programmes from external providers monitoring contract and analysing data from quality activity to ensure return of investment
- Provide support, advice and guidance to managers Trust wide in order to embed vocational development programmes. This will involve providing specialist and expert advice where no precedent exists, which involves high concentration to undertake analysis, interpretation and resolution of complex concepts and problems, requiring evaluation of options/factors in order to achieve organisational objectives
- Monitor the quality and outcome of external programmes undertaken through FE provision and Training Providers
- Support employees who experience barriers that impede their ability to participate in development opportunities. (i.e. functional skills, ESOL) by creating and/or commissioning learning support opportunities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience
- Training qualification (i.e. CIPD, CertEd) or recent experience of the training and development environment and willingness to work towards a training qualification.
- English GCSE grade C or equivalent
- Maths GCSE grade C or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Experience of using e-learning and blended learning technologies
Experience
Essential criteria
- Recent experience of being involved in the planning and/or delivery of training and development interventions.
- Experience in the delivery of induction, and training programmes for vocational staff groups
- Experience of providing evidence for external audit bodies (e.g. NHSLA, CQC, awarding bodies)
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to interpret learning and development needs on a group and individual basis and confidence to design, deliver and evaluate appropriate and creative learning interventions.
- Ability to manage own time and multi-task workload and prioritise effectively, often to tight deadlines.
- Presentation skills (including ability to use PowerPoint)
- Ability to use Microsoft Office effectively.
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
- Is able to work flexibly between the hours of 8.00am and 5.00pm.
- This role is cross organisational, and the post holder may be required to travel between the Frimley Park, Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospital sites occasionally. Therefore, must have the ability to travel.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicola Morgan
- Job title
- Learning & Development Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07774331672
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