[ref. q51326322] Associate Director for Education & Development - NHS

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.

Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.

If so, we’d love you to join us!

We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require

JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

Please read the job description/person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed.

It is important that you complete a formal application form as CV’s alone will not be accepted.

We can provide all our job application materials in alternative formats so that these are accessible to everyone. Should you require any documents within this job pack in an alternative format, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected].

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Job overview

They will play a crucial role in providing expertise and strategic leadership to our external stakeholders.

The ambition of the organisation is to ensure we create an environment that attracts, supports, develops and retains our workforce by creating an environment of lifelong learning. The post holder will bring a range of expertise in helping realise this ambition and will use innovation, research and evidence to guide our practices and modernise our processes.

This role will have dual accountability to the Director of Nursing and the Director of Culture and OD. The post holder will look to bring together the current function and what practices need to be modified to make this a reality. They will be someone who recognises the importance of understanding and supporting the whole employee lifecycle and be comfortable with engaging with a wide range of professional groups to ensure people’s needs are met and that the organisation is developing colleagues to ensure improved patient outcomes and career development are a priority.

• Engaging and networking with external stakeholders ensuring parity, resource, and support for the mental health agenda.
• Developing relationships with Universities in a mutually beneficial way to support the nursing strategy and workforce strategy.
• Front facing Ambassador to Health Education England and ICB’s.
• Provide strategic leadership by supporting the executive team in all areas pertaining to clinical training and education agenda for the Trust.
• To support, reflect and implement the staff training and skills required from the Trust’s Model of Care (Clinical operating Model), working closely with the relevant Directors and members of the executive team and significant stakeholders.
• With the Chief People Officer and Chief Nursing Officer, ensure that the Trust commissions appropriate levels of pre-and post-registration training to meet future service needs, and that clinical CPD investment links to organisational priorities and plans.
• Manage the education and development budgets, being authorised signatory for specific areas, monitoring budgets against expenditure, and providing financial reporting as and when required.
• Analyse and produce statistical information as required about education, training and development, including information required for board reports and executive team meetings.

Working for our organisation

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities (note - the JD is going through job matching and may be subject to change) If you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more.

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Person specification

Qualifications

• Nursing degree/Masters or equivalent, Dip OT, Clinical Psychology
• Evidence of continuing professional and personal development

Experience

• Experience of developing, managing and operationalising change management and quality improvement programmes

Skills

• A track record of building and maintaining excellent internal and external partnership working to delivery shared goals

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.

DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)

FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.

Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.

The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.

This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.