Job Summary
Expected Shortlisting Date:
19/03/2025
Planned Interview Date:
27/03/2025
Over 61,000 people work in health and social care across Leeds. In Leeds, one of our strategic workforce priorities is to reduce health inequalities in and through our workforce. We know that certain populations in our city have poorer health outcomes than others. This can be linked to where they live, their ethnicity, a disability, and a range of wider characteristics.
As a city, we have embarked on a range of initiatives to address Health Inequalities, and the development of a new Health Equity CPD programme is focused initially on supporting our nurses, midwives, AHPs, and care support workers to better understand and reduce inequalities.
The ambition of the programme is to work with stakeholders to identify the gaps in training provision that will make a real difference to practice and co-develop what is required for staff in both direct care provider roles and in coordinator and leadership roles, as well as supporting whole team development.
Main Duties of the Job
The Development Lead will work closely with our health and care partnerships to scope, design, deliver, and evaluate the Health Equity CPD programme across the city. The role has a varied and evolving workload for which you will need excellent interpersonal skills as well as written and verbal communication. A key part of the role is to support and develop a portfolio of Learning and Development products relating to health equity, so an understanding of professional training and education methodologies will be important, along with an interest in reducing health inequalities. High attention to detail and the ability to work both collaboratively and autonomously to make decisions are essential.
The successful candidate will have experience in leading and coordinating training and development projects that connect across a wider programme of work. You will need to be proactive, willing to learn, and enjoy problem-solving.
About Us
The Leeds Health and Care Academy is a unique and exciting service working on behalf of the entire Leeds health and care sector. We work in partnership with Leeds NHS Trusts, Leeds City Council, the ICB in Leeds, the city's colleges and universities, and the third sector to maximize the opportunities that a joined-up approach could bring.
Our work spans learning and development for the current workforce, supporting candidates moving into or across health and care organisations in Leeds, and working alongside partners on collaborative workforce projects that have been designed to strengthen our effectiveness as a system.
Our ambition is for Leeds to be the best city for training and working in the sector, with progressive, diverse careers for all students and staff, inspiring the next generation of health and care workers. It will be a healthy and caring city for all ages, where people who are the poorest improve their health the fastest.
Job Description
Job Responsibilities
Working as part of the Leeds Health and Care Academy and with partners across the health and care workforce, you will live and model the values and behaviours to help us achieve our ambition to be a healthy and caring city for all ages, where people who are the poorest improve their health the fastest.
The Development Lead will be the lead specialist and will be responsible for undertaking, leading, and contributing to the successful delivery of our Health Equity CPD programmes, in response to the local and national transformation agendas for health and care.
You will also enable and contribute to the successful delivery of the Leeds Health and Care Academy, ensuring that project objectives are delivered on time, within budget, and to expected levels of quality.
The Development Lead is part of a small cross-organisational team which supports the Leeds Health and Care Academy. You will work with a range of stakeholders including adult and children's social care, Public Health, the three health trusts, ICB, independent and voluntary sector providers, and educational institutions in the city. You will also be expected to directly engage with the health and social care workforce.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Management or Business-focused degree or equivalent gained by experience and training.
Desirable
* Project Management accreditation is desirable.
Skills & Behaviours
Essential
* Competent/advanced on all MS Office applications.
Other Criteria
Essential
* Understanding of the importance of equal opportunities in both employment and service delivery.
Experience
Essential
* Extensive experience of leading, managing, and contributing to a variety of projects relating to transformation and service improvement, and delivering them on time, within budget, and to agreed quality.
* Experience of using formal project management methodologies, e.g., Prince II, to take forward projects from concept to implementation and completion.
* Experience of identifying, quantifying, and realising benefits as part of projects or programmes.
* Experience of identifying and managing risks associated with projects or programmes.
* Experience of delivering change through analysing current practice and recommending improvements.
* Experience of analysing, interpreting, and presenting complex business data to support the case for change that drives up standards and performance.
* Experience of working effectively with others to deliver projects including those who may have competing priorities to negotiate the best way forward.
* Experience of analysing operational requirements, recommending improvements and implementing change.
* Good understanding of the transformation agendas for health and care and issues, challenges, and the environment they operate within.
* Ability to plan and facilitate workshops, as well as chairing and contributing to a range of meetings.
* Experience of managing competing priorities whilst delivering on a range of projects and adapting to changing circumstances and priorities.
* Experience of taking forward initiatives from development to implementation.
* Experience of communicating key issues effectively, clearly, and succinctly both in writing and verbally to a range of audiences.
* Experience of making swift decisions and judgements and working using own initiative.
* Ability to work to specified work programmes and timetables.
Employer Details
Employer Name:
Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Address:
Leeds General Infirmary
Great George Street
Leeds
LS1 3EX
Employer's Website:
https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ #J-18808-Ljbffr