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 develop technology enhanced widening participation offer to improve engagement and accessibility through the provision and co-ordination of efficient and effective programmes, activities and projects to support our strategy and aspirations and to contribute providing high-quality digitally enabled widening participation initiatives.

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 North Tyneside 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 information, advice and guidance relevant to raising aspirations across North Tyneside

To design, develop and implement high quality digital content and resources across our widening participation portfolio.

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.

Using feedback to improve content and continually explore new opportunities to further enhance the digital widening participation offering of the trust

By providing 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 North Tyneside 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 improve the use of digital platforms to improve engagement and accessibility of ourwidening participation initiatives.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of acollective 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 education, careers, IT or demonstrable equivalent experience
• 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.
• 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/mentoring qualification
• IAG qualification
• IT enabled services qualification such as web designing or software development

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Cobalt Business Park

Tyne and wear

NE27 0QJ

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