This role will allow the post holder the opportunity to work in the School of Nursing, AHP and Midwifery at one of the biggest NHS trusts in the UK. The School offers education and support to all of our non medical workforce, pre-registration professionals, and for Clinical Skills, SIM and Resuscitation our medical colleagues which equates to thousands of health care workers. The School itself employs four hundred plus individuals, ranging from administrative staff, educators, resuscitation officers, nurses, researchers and academics!

The role is focused on the quality of the education delivered by the School, and the processes relating to those that access the School in all its guises. This relates to our internally employed staff but also our students. The School ethos is Belong, Grow and Contribute and hence all learners are our priority.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have responsibility within the School for the collation and analysis of intelligence related to overseeing quality assurance functions such as accreditation, course approval, and quality enhancement across the School against education and training pathways in line with national standards and priorities set by NHS England and NHS Improvement,, Integrated Care System (ICS) Health Education England (HEE) and individual professional regulatory such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Heath and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and other regulatory, audit and inspection bodies.

Ensure processes include a rigorous cycle of feedback from students and staff to constantly improve the learner experience within the School. Work collaboratively with the Corporate Education Quality Team to enhance an evaluation framework. The continuous improvement of the learner experience is central to the development of the School education portfolio to ensure delivery of sector-leading, integrated and coherent education which is responsive, learner focused and supports the School community in a creative, enabling way. This involves liaison and coordination with multiple stake-holders, informing an evaluation of the school education portfolio that is shared and communicated to the School via regular reports.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC Registered Nurse or Midwife/ HCPC Registered professional
• Masters in relevant subject / field or equivalent Level 7 post graduate qualification
• Teaching qualification
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Post graduate leadership / management qualification / or completion of programme

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience in a relevant role at a Senior Manager level in a large complex organisation.
• Extensive knowledge of education quality, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
• Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current health education quality.
• Experience of commissioning education programmes.
• Detailed understanding of the education quality agenda including its scope, structure, methods of operation, processes and inter-relationships.
• Understanding of Organisation Development principals.
• Detailed understanding of quality assurance and enhancement processes.
• Understanding of the current NHSE, NHS People Plan, Sustainable Transformational Plan, Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies, Higher Education Institutions agenda from a quality and commission perspective.
• Experience of developing governance frameworks to support education quality assurance, enhancement and performance.

Desirable

• Experience of developing papers and supporting formal sub-committees

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Leadership skills.
• Capability to work across boundaries.
• Ability to build effective working relationships across a range of health care and other organisations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate and work effectively with staff at all levels.
• Ability to steer and influence decisions across a range of health care and other organisations.
• Ability to manage a budget and provide oversight of complex financial data related to Education commissioning and quality.
• Well-developed negotiation and influencing skills and the ability to present data based on sound business intelligence, technical reasoning and commissioning/procurement awareness.
• Ability to work flexibly and where necessary outside of core working hours.
• Willingness to travel/ work across all Trust sites/ services associated with the Trust and travel outside of the Trust as a representative of the organisation within the UK

Desirable

• Excellent diagnostic and conceptual skills.
• Ability to build and motivate teams.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

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