Senior Education Manager - Allied Health Professions
NHS AfC: Band 8b
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Job Overview
By acting as a fully integrated member of the WTE Regional Clinical Leadership Team (AHP), you will ensure that the AHP agenda and regional delivery is achieved.
Supporting the Assistant Director of Clinical Leadership and Education – AHP, in the overall management, development, and organisation of the WTE Regional AHP team including the regional quality management, improvement, and associated education commissioning and performance management programme aligned to the priorities set out within the WTE Mandate and the WTE Quality Framework in the context of regulatory requirements.
Main Duties of the Job
Communicate, provide, and present highly complex information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including:
* Regional ICS footprint
* NHS England
* Local Authorities
* General Practice providers
* Public Health England
* Local authority representatives
* Education providers
* Chief AHP Officer for England and the National WT&E AHP programme
* Professional and statutory regulators
* Sector Skills Councils (Skills for Health and Skills for Care).
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Delivering Results/Functional Responsibilities
* Responsible for programme delivery for an assigned portfolio of local and shared regional programmes of work.
* Develops long-term, strategic delivery plans for assigned programmes of work.
* Responsible for setting and managing the performance of allocated AHP programmes against short, medium, and long-term key performance indicators.
* Accurately evaluates stakeholder needs from a range of qualitative and quantitative data sources.
* Prioritisation and delegation of complex and competing/conflicting work programmes.
* Delegated budget-setting responsibility for a number of assigned workforce transformation programmes.
* Responsible for ensuring programmes of work are aligned to and successfully deliver regional strategic objectives, KPIs and regulatory compliance.
* Adapts plans to account changes in government policy, system needs, technological advances, and evaluation of a range of performance data.
* Deputises for the Assistant Director of Clinical Leadership and Education – AHP.
* Building strong relationships with senior external stakeholders, influencing decision making to achieve strategic outcomes.
* Ensures the appropriate allocation of internal/external resources and managing risk across a number of competing work programmes.
* Measures and evaluates the outcomes of strategic, tactical, and operational decision making and performance of the programme portfolio.
* Ensure the adoption of best practice and learning from AHP programmes outcomes are shared regionally.
* Line management responsibility for a project team, including performance review and development support.
* Procure/commission programmes of work as requested.
* Produce reports on progress against plan, for internal assurance, ICSs, and other Boards and Committees as required.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Experience
* Holds a current registration with a UK Healthcare Regulator.
* Master’s Level or equivalent level of experience.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Extensive knowledge of specialist area of Nursing, Midwifery, or AHPs, acquired through postgraduate education or equivalent experience.
* Holds current registration with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or General Osteopathic Council (GOC).
Skills Capabilities and Aptitudes
* Skilled communicator able to select from, and utilise, a range of high-level negotiating and influencing strategies appropriate to different audiences and environments.
Knowledge and Experience
* Extensive knowledge of Nursing, Midwifery, or AHP development in healthcare.
Our Commitments to You
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We strive to ensure our people feel trusted, valued, and empowered.
We welcome applications from disabled candidates. If you meet all the essential criteria, you will be guaranteed an interview.
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