Band 8a Lead Educator-Healthcare Science

Job Summary

We have an exciting new opportunity for an inspiring and forward-thinking individual to join our dynamic and growing Healthcare Science Education Team.

This permanent position would be ideally suited to a Healthcare Scientist with previous experience as an educator, who wants to advance their career in a busy and supportive workplace, whilst supporting others to develop.

Based in Education, the post holder will work closely with service leads, specialty experts, operational leads, workforce leads and executive leads to ensure a collaborative approach to high quality education provision and support.

The post holder will coordinate NHSE education planning, training delivery and education governance, and will provide effective leadership for the wider education delivery team for speciality education, aligning priorities with Trust objectives, ensuring the Trust has a safe and sustainable HCS workforce and setting the strategic vision for education within HCS.

Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required

Lead and support the wider HCS Education Team, ensuring high-quality educational support is embedded throughout the Trust:

• Coordination of education, training and practice-development activity across Healthcare Science.
• Maintenance of accurate training and competency records and production/presentation of education compliance reports, supporting learners to achieve their learning outcomes.
• Collaboration with Trust colleagues, universities and other external education providers to identify workforce training needs, supporting design and delivery of programmes that reflect local, regional, and national standards, helping shape the ongoing development of the UHB HCS workforce.
• Development and delivery of an annual HCS education portfolio.
• Development and delivery of a comprehensive induction programme for all new HCS learners-both registered and unregistered-ensuring learners are safely, effectively, and confidently welcomed into the Trust.
• Development and delivery of an annual HCS education portfolio.
• Development and delivery of a comprehensive induction programme for all new HCS learners-both registered and unregistered-ensuring learners are safely, effectively and confidently welcomed into the Trust.
• Delivery of specific education, where appropriate.
  
  

About Us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job Description

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered healthcare scientist (HCPC/AHCS/IPEM etc) or evidence of the ability to register with a recognised HCS regulatory body
• Professional knowledge acquired through post graduate degree or specialist training, supplemented by short courses to Masters level equivalent
  
  

Desirable

• Education Qualification/ PGCE or equivalent or willing to work towards
• Post-graduate Leadership training/ development course
• Project management qualification or relevant experience
  
  

Experience

Essential

• Experience of managing change without supervision
• Utilise well developed facilitation skills to effectively chair multi-disciplinary and cross-speciality meetings
• Lead and facilitate projects utilising core project and people leadership and management skills; tracking progress and initiating actions for sustained appropriate implementation
• Experience of leading and managing a team
• Knowledge and understanding of a range of issues across the NHS and NHS agenda
• Knowledge and understanding of UHB recruitment and retention strategies to inform and amend local strategy
• Significant post registration experience working within an NHS or complex health care environment with multidisciplinary teams, including the supervision / education of junior staff
• Demonstrable experience of managing pay and non- pay resources and service development
• Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of ongoing personal development/ competence
  
  

Desirable

• Experience of implementing a project that crosses organisational boundaries both personally and as facilitator
• Knowledge and understanding of local and national body responsibilities with regards to recruitment and substantive staff human resource responsibilities
  
  

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Ability to work autonomously
• Able to think strategically and translate the overall vision for local service delivery by collaboration and partnership
• Ability to manage a diverse and challenging workload
• Ability to organise workload and changing priorities
• Able to recognise, have creative foresight of potential barriers and risks, and mitigate actions; highlighting to appropriate stakeholders
• Model a collaborative and influencing style of working, negotiating with others to achieve the best outcomes, whilst occasionally working in a highly political and sensitive environment
• Ability to work collaboratively with peers and senior colleagues across a variety of settings within and outside the NHS
• Ability to analyse complex issues and data where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple resources
• To support the identification and sharing of best practice to support service improvements
• Support future talent management, working with line managers, educators and staff for aspiring leaders
• Ability to use highly developed negotiation, facilitation and persuasion skills to lead on/ participate in and facilitate change within and across speciality and professional boundaries
• Ability to build and motivate teams
• Capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decisions without supervision
• Ability to present information that demonstrates clinical credibility and collaboration
• Must be adaptable, flexible and able to cope with uncertainty and change
• Commitment to continuing professional development of self and others
• To maintain awareness of up to date professional and clinical practice issues and ensure that national policy is reflected in practice
• Excellent standard of written and verbal communication skills
• Experience and enthusiasm for supporting, facilitating and developing educational programmes and teaching/ assessing and supervising others
• Evidence of flexible and innovative approach to service delivery and development
• Be a role model and actively promote equal opportunities, inclusion during the recruitment, development and retention of staff
• The ability to promote excellence in professional practice, by setting and leading improvement in workforce and education
• Promote, facilitate and actively enable a culture of transparency, openness and learning in quality, safety and clinical assurance
  
  

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

For Help With Your Application, Contact

Debra Balderson

Debra.Balderson@uhb.nhs.uk

01213718481

Pay scheme

Agenda for Change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£57528.00 to £64750.00 Yearly

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-Time, Flexible Working

Reference number

304-1097177

Job locations

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Attachments

Job Description

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