We are an outstanding organisation whose strategic workforce objective is to offer the best staff experience in the NHS, enabling staff to fulfil their potential by providing a working environment where they can feel valued for what they bring to the Trust, developed to achieve their potential, achieve a work life balance, and feel engaged in their work.
In pursuit of this objective, we need to ensure that our managers and leaders have the right learning and development opportunities to enable them to lead and manage people and resources well, in a way that is inclusive and consistent with our values of compassion, excellence and collaboration.
Interviews for this position will be held face to face at Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge Biomedical Campus on Friday 17th July.
We are looking for a highly skilled leadership and development practitioner who brings experience of designing and delivering successful training interventions to a diverse and multi-disciplinary workforce. The successful candidate will be able to manage large scale training and development projects and will have excellent facilitation and presentation skills.
Our experience tells us that people's life stories and professional experience has a great influence on the way we work, how we go about solving problems and how we can combine with other people's different experience to create better solutions, better experience for staff and patients and greater innovation. We are keen to recruit people to our team who care about this combination of difference as much as we do.
This role is offered as a permanent full-time appointment but flexible working arrangements will be considered.
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
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On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Educated to master's Level or able to demonstrate equivalent experience in a related field.
A post graduate qualification in a relevant specialist field.
A recognised coaching qualification
A sound practical knowledge and experience of designing training interventions for a complex multi-disciplinary workforce operating at varying levels of seniority.
Significant experience of delivering management and leadership training.
Practical knowledge and experience of apprenticeship schemes and of identifying and exploiting a range of talent pipelines.
Experience of leading and managing a team.
Cultural competence and the ability to apply this to their own work and the work of the team ensuring that equality, diversity and inclusion sits at the core of everyday practice.
Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to influence at all levels both within the Trust and across partners with the ICS.
Highly skilled and confident communicator, able to write and present high quality Board level report, facilitate learning sessions and speak to large multidisciplinary groups of staff at events as required.
It is not a requirement of this role for applicants to have experience of working within the NHS but they must demonstrate a general understanding of the NHS workforce strategies and in particular should be able to demonstrate clearly how their skills are transferable into a Healthcare setting.
The post holder will have the breadth and depth of skill and knowledge to enable them to work confidently and independently within both their own specialism (talent and widening access) and more broadly as part of the senior management team.
As well as being able to demonstrate examples of how they work in a way that is consistent with our values of compassion, excellence and collaboration the successful candidate will be able to clearly demonstrate a commitment to driving culture change through the equality, diversity and inclusion.
Onika Patrick-Redhead
onika.patrickredhead@nhs.net
Agenda for Change
Band 8a
Permanent
Full-Time
175-2627-WF1808
Heart and Lung Research Institute Papworth Road Cambridge Bio Medical Campus Cambridge CB2 0AY
This vacancy is closed to applications.