We have an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Practitioner in our Widening Participation team. This role will suit an individual with some experience of working within the area of widening access and participation.
The Widening Participation team at Northumbria healthcare NHS Foundation Trust focuses on addressing the long-term barriers to progression and attainment, with responsibility for improving access and raising aspirations with a focus on supporting communities from underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds. The Specialist Practitioner will support the team across an innovative portfolio to implement our widening participation strategies and promote Northumbria healthcare foundation trust as an employer of choice to the communities we serve, across North Tyneside and Northumberland.
The Specialist Practitioner will play a key role in ensuring our targeted outreach activities are effective and impactful. This role plans, implements and delivers widening participation activities across our education and community settings. The post holder will deliver activities, liaise with key contacts, internal and external and coordinate the work of the trust embedded with our community promise and CSR.
As part of evidencing the impact of our work, this role is crucial to setting up activities to be trackable and reportable, overseeing data collection for a range of projects and activities linked to impact and evaluation.
Main duties of the job
1. To plan and implement the organisations widening participation strategy across 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.
2. To lead, plan and develop a range of projects aimed at widening access and participation, including planning and delivering a range of widening participation activities to help improve awareness of the NHS and Northumbria healthcare foundation trust, focusing on areas of low participation and high levels of deprivation.
3. To ensure the provision and co-ordination of efficient and effective widening participation programmes, activities and projects to support the organisations strategy and aspirations.
4. To deliver projects and strategies to provide a high-quality widening access and participation service and ensure the organisation meets a range of key performance indicators.
5. To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.
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!
Job responsibilities
1. To contribute to the design and delivery of specialist projects and programmes linked to widening participation strategies and action plans.
2. To support quality assurance and improvement by ensuring all data collected is accurate and supported on appropriate systems.
3. To provide information, advice and guidance to service users linked to widening participation.
4. To be responsible for the coordination and delivery of projects and events for all ages.
5. To be responsible for devising and delivering workshops, presentations and other activities and will liaise with a variety of internal and external stakeholders in order to ensure the smooth delivery and robust evaluation of widening participation projects and events.
6. To work with stakeholders to improve engagement activities with our priority groups with an emphasis on engagement with underrepresented or disadvantaged groups.
7. To provide day to day management and supervision of staff.
8. To support the senior practitioner on provision of in-depth data and evaluation.
9. To facilitate the work of others in support of effective planning, organisation and delivery of widening participation projects and programmes.
10. Support the Senior practitioner and People development lead to develop and implement NHCTs strategies to widening access and participation.
11. Working autonomously and within a team, drawing on different skills and abilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Level 6 qualification (e.g. Degree) in an appropriate subject such as education, careers or health or equivalent portfolio of experience.
Desirable
* Careers qualification or CEIAG experience.
* Leadership and Management qualification or experience.
* Teaching/Training qualification or experience.
* Coaching/Mentoring qualification or experience.
Experience
Essential
* Specialist knowledge across work procedures, underpinned by theory related to widening participation and access activities.
* Specialist knowledge in the development and delivery of widening participation activities, gained through experience in an education, community or similar environment.
* Experience of leading, inspiring and motivating others to high performance.
* Experience of planning and delivering engaging, effective activities and events for large cohorts including workshops and presentations, both virtually and in-person.
* Experience of smooth delivery of activities, projects and programmes and robust evaluation of widening participation projects and events.
Desirable
* Experience managing/ coordinating key widening participation activities.
* Experience working with or supporting a range of stakeholders, internal and external to improve engagement activities.
Other
Essential
* It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence 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.
Employer details
Employer name
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Northumbria House
7/8 Silverfox Way, Cobalt Business Park
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE27 0QJ
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
#J-18808-Ljbffr