Job vacancy: People Development Facilitator, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, Nuneaton

Job summary

Main area: Learning & Development
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 230-35269618-CORP-A

Employer: George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Town: Nuneaton
Salary: £35,392 - £42,618 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/07/2024 23:59

People Development Facilitator

NHS AfC: Band 6

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.

The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Purpose

As an experienced facilitator, the post holder will have the opportunity to make a difference to leaders, managers and their teams across our Trust. The post holder will be a key member of People Development team, and will hold overall responsibility for leading the design and facilitation of a wide range of learning interventions in order to drive performance excellence.

Main duties and Responsibilities

Responsibility for the design, delivery and evaluation of learning solutions, to include the following;

Trust Appraisal process
Management Development training
Corporate and Local induction
Statutory and Mandatory training (Core Skills Training Framework- CSTF)
Role specific essential skills training
Identify opportunities to improve current PD outputs.
Utilise own initiative to plan workload and make decisions independently, referring to the department manager or facilitators as appropriate or required.

Regular Quality and compliance monitoring and reporting, and provision of support to Directorates where required.

Completing Trust wide or localised training needs analysis to identify skills and knowledge gaps- to include focus groups, consultation, action learning sets.

Utilise a range of techniques to evaluate the impact of interventions.

Other duties

To work collaboratively with other People Development Facilitators and Practice Educators to support with the delivery of a seamless package of education.
To provide upskilling and regular feedback to subject matter experts who deliver on various clinical and non-clinical updates following evaluation of individual sessions.
Take delegated responsibility for developing and keeping up to date, and implementing People Development related policy/ toolkits, e.g. induction, statutory and mandatory training, appraisal which will impact beyond the People Development function.
To develop and maintain external networks in order to identify appropriate external training and development education funding

RELATIONSHIPS

Internal:

People Development Team
Trust Education Leads
Organisational Development Team
Human Resources Team
Senior Manager

External:

NHSE
Other NHS Trusts

Person specification

Experience and knowledge

Essential criteria

Evidence of working across a variety of departments and partner organisations
Experience of developing leadership and management learning content.
Demonstrable experience in managing projects with multiple stakeholders
Experience in data analysis to identify trends and recommendations
Experience of working in an autonomous way, working within defined parameters to meet defined objectives.

Desirable criteria

Experience of delivering complex, multi-dimensional training packages
Experience of facilitating groups
Experience of supporting development programmes

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
Professional qualification in HR/ Leadership (CIPD or similar- level 5 qualified or qualifying)

Desirable criteria

Teaching qualification
Coaching and mentoring qualification and experience
Psychometric test qualifications

Skills

Essential criteria

Excellent IT Skills

Please note:

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust utilises a third party recruitment system (TRAC). When applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into TRAC where all subsequent information regarding your application will be generated. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages via the NHS Jobs website. Furthermore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any emails/messages sent to us via the NHS Jobs website.

By applying for this post you are consenting to George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system, TRAC.

The Job application data you provide will be used to assess your application for employment at GEH, to verify your information and conduct reference checks, and to communicate with you. If you accept employment with GEH, the information collected will become part of your employment record and will be used for employment purposes.

All information provided will be used for recruitment purposes only and processed in a lawful, fair and transparent manner.

Other:

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice, if appropriate for the role, it is a mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service application.

In response to NICE guidance and to support the reduction of health harm from tobacco, the Trust has a smoke-free site policy which applies to anyone on Trust sites. Staff who smoke will be supported to quit or not smoke whilst on Trust sites.

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust is committed to creating and sustaining a positive and inclusive working environment for all our employees as they are at the heart of our patients journey. Our aim is to ensure that employees are equally valued, respected, empowered and included within an organisation that is representative of all members of the community. We define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual – taking pride in that we value employees, job applicants, students, volunteers, patients and visitors as people. This is reflected within our excel behaviours with a vision to create a workplace that represents a culture of kindness, joy and inclusion.