Widening Participation Facilitator - Northumberland and SEND
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- Tyne and Wear
- Salary
- £29,970 to £36,483 per annum
- Closing date
- 1 Oct 2024
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- Profession
- Other Health Profession
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
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The Widening Participation Facilitator will provide and support employability opportunities to attract and retain our current and future workforce by creating and implementing a range of Widening Participation projects to support our workforce strategy, corporate social responsibility commitments and our organisational community promise.
The post holder will facilitate and implement Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation trust's plan to deliver meaningful engagement to education and the communities we serve to raise aspirations, improve career awareness, and promotion of the range of careers and routes into employment which benefits our communities, the Trusts and partner organisations
The post holder will enhance and develop engagement across SEND groups in the communities we serve to create impactful interventions to engage, inspire and empower people with SEND to reach their full potential.
It is essential that the post holder role models compassionate and inclusive leadership by engaging, enabling and empowering others using coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and facilitating team working and collaboration across organisational boundaries.
Main duties of the job
To engage with the education and community landscape across Northumberland to promote employment and training opportunities in the NHS and health and social care employers.
To develop and promote opportunities to widen access to careers and employment, including apprenticeships, work experience, undergraduate internships, graduate jobs, pre-employment learning programmes and provide IAG relevant to raising aspirations across Northumberland.
To engage with stakeholders and partners to provide high-quality work-based learning activities which enables young people with special education need, impairments and/or disability to achieve and experience success across North Tyneside and Northumberland
To facilitate efficient and effective widening participation activities to support aspirations for high engagement and promotion of careers and employment opportunities. In doing so, the post holder will role model desirable values and leadership behaviours, whilst supporting and responding to the needs of organisations and the wider community.
Deliver high-quality sessions that engage, enthuse and progress young people and provide inclusive provisions.
Provide a high-quality service to ensure the organisation meets a range of key performance indicators relating to widening participation activities, promotion of a range of entry and progression pathways into NHS careers including educational and vocational routes and Corporate Social Responsibility indicators.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To facilitate and implement the organisations plan to deliver meaningful engagement acrosseducation and the communities we serve across Northumberland to raise aspirations, improvecareer awareness, and promotion of the range of careers and routes into employment whichbenefits our communities, the Trusts and partner organisations.
To enhance and develop engagement across SEND groups in North Tyneside andNorthumberland to create impactful interventions to engage, inspire and empower youngpeople with SEND to reach their full potential.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistentleadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching topromote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working andcollaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person Specification
Other requirements
Essential
Qualifications, experience and knowledge
Essential
Desirable
Employer details
Employer name
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Northumbria House
Cobalt Business Park
Tyne and Wear
NE27 0QJ
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
319-6622730JN
The post holder will facilitate and implement Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation trust's plan to deliver meaningful engagement to education and the communities we serve to raise aspirations, improve career awareness, and promotion of the range of careers and routes into employment which benefits our communities, the Trusts and partner organisations
The post holder will enhance and develop engagement across SEND groups in the communities we serve to create impactful interventions to engage, inspire and empower people with SEND to reach their full potential.
It is essential that the post holder role models compassionate and inclusive leadership by engaging, enabling and empowering others using coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and facilitating team working and collaboration across organisational boundaries.
Main duties of the job
To engage with the education and community landscape across Northumberland to promote employment and training opportunities in the NHS and health and social care employers.
To develop and promote opportunities to widen access to careers and employment, including apprenticeships, work experience, undergraduate internships, graduate jobs, pre-employment learning programmes and provide IAG relevant to raising aspirations across Northumberland.
To engage with stakeholders and partners to provide high-quality work-based learning activities which enables young people with special education need, impairments and/or disability to achieve and experience success across North Tyneside and Northumberland
To facilitate efficient and effective widening participation activities to support aspirations for high engagement and promotion of careers and employment opportunities. In doing so, the post holder will role model desirable values and leadership behaviours, whilst supporting and responding to the needs of organisations and the wider community.
Deliver high-quality sessions that engage, enthuse and progress young people and provide inclusive provisions.
Provide a high-quality service to ensure the organisation meets a range of key performance indicators relating to widening participation activities, promotion of a range of entry and progression pathways into NHS careers including educational and vocational routes and Corporate Social Responsibility indicators.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To facilitate and implement the organisations plan to deliver meaningful engagement acrosseducation and the communities we serve across Northumberland to raise aspirations, improvecareer awareness, and promotion of the range of careers and routes into employment whichbenefits our communities, the Trusts and partner organisations.
To enhance and develop engagement across SEND groups in North Tyneside andNorthumberland to create impactful interventions to engage, inspire and empower youngpeople with SEND to reach their full potential.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistentleadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching topromote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working andcollaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person Specification
Other requirements
Essential
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving license and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Qualifications, experience and knowledge
Essential
- Degree level qualification in an appropriate subject such as teaching, education, careers advice and guidance equivalent portfolio of demonstrable experience within a relevant subject.
- Knowledge of Health & Social Care widening participation engagement priorities.
- A sound knowledge of planning and delivering a range of widening participation activities to young people and adults with additional needs.
- A sound knowledge of stakeholder engagement demonstrating the ability to communicate across our diverse communities
- Experience of co-ordinating and the delivery of a wide range of widening access and participation programmes and projects to promote apprenticeships, internships and careers, with partners, including those external to the organisation.
- Proven track record in delivery of training, evaluating and adapting a wide range of programmes including ability to engage and adapt associated learning to meet the needs of learners.
- Experience of working with individuals in and out of education
- Experience developing and delivering digitally enhanced interventions to improve engagement and/or impact
- High quality facilitation skills and experience whether leading small groups, large events, conferences or workshops.
- Understanding of working in an NHS environment.
- Understanding of the geography and demography including the barriers of the communities we serve.
Desirable
- Coaching and mentoring qualification
- IAG qualification
- SEND qualification and or equivalent experience
- Experience of delivering high quality IAG
- Experience of working with and supporting vulnerable and/or rural communities
- Experience of working with young people with Special Educational Needs (SEND), impairments and/or Disabilities.
- Experience delivering employability skills/support in education or community
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- o Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
Employer details
Employer name
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Northumbria House
Cobalt Business Park
Tyne and Wear
NE27 0QJ
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
319-6622730JN
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