Job summary
Job overview
Professional Development Manager (Apprenticeships)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a creative and innovative individual, with a passion for Apprenticeships, to join the Professional Development team in a full-time substantive post. In this role, you will manage the clinical student apprenticeship agenda, ensuring that all clinical apprenticeship students are supported and receive appropriate clinical placements in line with NMC and HCPC regulatory requirements. Working as part of the Integrated Care System, you will ensure that all apprenticeship students receive the experience, exposure and education they need to fulfill their programme requirements and qualify as our next generation of professionals.
You will support the recruitment and monitoring of clinical apprenticeship students in partnership with Higher Education Institutions, NHS England and the Integrated Care System. The manager will ensure that the clinical environment is appropriate for learning and that Practice Assessors, Practice Supervisors and Clinical Educators are appropriately supported, trained and regulated.
In addition, you will support with preparation to role work across the service, providing support with career events, interview preparation and application support where appropriate.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
You will:
Manage the clinical student apprenticeship recruitment processes ensuring the recruitment of high calibre healthcare apprentice students, utilising and adhering to the appropriate internal and external processes and governance requirements.
Work in partnership with the Higher Education Institutions to ensure the recruitment of the appropriate healthcare apprentice students.
Work in partnership with the Higher Education Institutions to ensure the recruitment of the appropriate healthcare apprentice students.
Manage the clinical apprenticeship placement capacity processes, ensuring the appropriate liaison with the Higher Education Institutions, Clinical Managers, Clinical Team Leaders, Practice Assessors, Practice Supervisors, Clinical Educators and Administrators.
Manage the clinical apprenticeships placement allocation process, ensuring the appropriate liaison with the Higher Education Institutions, Clinical Managers, Clinical Team Leaders, Practice Assessors, Practice Supervisors, Clinical Educators and Educational Administrators.
Provide support for clinical apprenticeship students, and Practice Assessors and Clinical Educators, on an individual or group basis to resolve difficulties with assessments and assist with individual action planning where necessary.
About us
Working for our organisation
Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be working in partnership with your colleagues within the Professional Development team, with key individuals within the divisions and with aligned post holders across the Integrated Care System in order to provide an evidence-based approach to delivering and managing the clinical apprenticeship student agendas.
For further details, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification document.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential Criteria:
Registered clinician
Educated to Degree level or equivalent
Educated to Master's degree level or equivalent experience
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Experience
Essential Criteria:
Relevant experience of working with clinical apprenticeship students, Practice Assessors, and Clinical Educators across Nursing and Allied Healthcare Professions
Relevant experience of clinical placement management
Skills & Knowledge
Essential Criteria:
Relevant experience of working with Higher Education Institutions
Relevant experience of managing and developing appropriate clinical student databases
Personal Qualities
Essential Criteria:
Ability to handle sensitive and complex information
Excellent presentation and communication skills
High level of IT Literacy including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Ability to work autonomously
High level of negotiating and influencing skills
Other Job Requirements
Knowledge of academic curriculum management
High level of clinical judgement
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Registered clinician
2. Educated to degree level or equivalent
3. Educated to Masters degree level or equivalent
4. Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Experience
Essential
5. Relevant experience of working with clinical apprenticeship students, Practice Assessors, and Clinical Educators across Nursing and Allied Healthcare Professions
6. Relevant experience of clinical placement management
Skills
Essential
7. Relevant experience of working with Higher Education Institutions
8. Relevant experience of managing and developing appropriate clinical apprenticeship student databases
Personal Qualities
Essential
9. Ability to handle sensitive and complex information
10. Excellent presentation and communication skills
11. High level of IT literacy to include Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint
12. Ability to work autonomously
13. High level of negotiating and influencing skills
other
Essential
14. Knowledge of academic curriculum management
15. High level of clinical judgement