director education manager Nottingham, England
Job description
Band 9
Job overview
The Director of Education and Organisational Development (OD) role is a new leadership position in the Trust, reporting directly to our Chief People Officer. This is a broad strategic role, with significant Board exposure and responsibility for the design and delivery of a strategic plan for Culture and Leadership development and the development of a new Education Strategy. We are focused on improving employee health, wellbeing and experience through a progressive organisation development programme that enables a culture of compassionate leadership, employee engagement and psychological safety. Joining us as we make significant progress on our ambitious transformation journey, this role will ensure that we create a great place to work and learn; aligned to our commitment to ‘People First’.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a creative and inclusive leader with senior OD experience gained in large and complex organisations and a passion to bring together teams as we create a strategic approach to OD and Education that will optimise the potential of our colleagues. Creating a culture of continuous growth and long-term commitment, you will enable our workforce to thrive in the face of future service demands and as we seek to reduce health inequalities within our populations. A visionary leader, you will devise an agile and innovative strategic approach to delivering accessible and impactful professional learning and cultural development opportunities across a dedicated, diverse and multi-professional workforce. Although NHS experience or exposure may be valuable, we are also keen to hear from those outsides of the health sector who have a track record of delivering world class OD solutions in large, complex, customer focused environments. Most of all you will share our values, commitment and ambition to shape high quality and sustainable health and care services for the future.
Working for our organisation
There are 18,000 colleagues who make up Nottingham University Hospitals ‘Team NUH’. We provide a range of physical health services to Nottingham, its surrounding communities, and the wider East Midlands from two major hospitals in Nottingham and a host of community facilities. As the third largest teaching Trust in the country, we have a turnover of £1.5bn, and we are a national and international leader for many of our specialist services. Our Major Trauma Centre is the largest in the country, we have a strong research and teaching agenda with significant links to the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University and Loughborough University. Our vision is “to be outstanding in health outcomes and patient and staff experience”.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
If our ambition resonates with yours, we would love to hear from you. For more information click on the button below or contact Helen Barkham, Emily Smith or Emma Pickup at GatenbySanderson on 07921 308766 for an initial informal discussion.
Closing Date: 9am Monday 31 July
Final Interviews: 15th September
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree Level Education or equivalent level of professional experience
- Post graduate qualification (MA/MSc) qualification in Organisational Development, Human Resource Development or Education and Training, or equivalent plus additional in-depth professional knowledge in a number of disciplines acquired through training and experience over an extended period
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Coaching/Mentoring Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- In-depth knowledge and experience of modern OD interventions and techniques across multiple strands
- Experience of leading large scale organisational development, leadership development and culture change based on interpretation of national guidance or legislation
- Proven experience in strategic workforce and resource planning, talent attraction and development
- Experience of leading, coaching and building capability in all aspects of the Education and Training services and working at a strategic level in a complex environment and experience of working across multiple professions
- Significant experience of developing, executing and tracking the success of both OD interventions and Education and Training services and projects
- Proven experience of working at Senior/Executive level required and providing expert advice on culture, leadership and education to Board level
- Experience of leading/setting organisational policy and strategy based on interpretation of national guidance or legislation
- Experience of managing budgets and delivering cost improvement programmes
- Strong experience of carrying out service improvement and benchmarking exercises to analyse organisational performance
- Significant experience of developing, executing and tracking the success of Education and Training services and projects
- Demonstrable experience of managing contentious people issues effectively together with a high level of emotional intelligence and strong interpersonal and communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Extensive experience working in a complex unionised environment
Knowledge/Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly developed leadership, negotiation and influencing skills with the ability to motivate, challenge, engage and empower individuals and teams across both clinical and non-clinical areas across multiple professions
- Ability to lead in an environment of constant change and ambiguity
- Ability to quickly build knowledge and understanding of the national NHS agenda specifically relating to organisation development and education
- Strong presentation skills – ability to prepare and deliver board level and senior management presentations – strong effective communicator.
- Ability to present highly contentious, complex or sensitive information
- Ability to understand and interpret complex analytical information
- Successfully able to influence a broad spectrum of people within and across multiple organisations.
- A highly effective and creative problem solver.
- Ability to delegate clearly and monitor progress regularly.
- Demonstrate a strong and practical commitment to equal opportunities and is aware of current practice.
- Highly developed, demonstrated teamwork skills.
- Able to direct the efforts of a team of diverse OD and Education and Training professionals within and across multiple portfolios.
- Excellent organisational, prioritisation, analytical and planning skills with a high attention to detail and process.
- Able to analyse performance data from objectives, KPIs, performance scorecards, and present an expert opinion when variance occurs against benchmarking, and set remedial action to address.
- Results and outcome orientated.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of compliance and NHS regulatory frameworks such as CQC and NHS England.
Communications
Essential criteria
- Able to relate to people at all levels and build beneficial working relationships with internal staff and the employees from partners and key stakeholders
- Ability to identify key influencers and create strategies that involve these individuals in shaping and delivering change
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, adaptable to a variety of styles and audiences.
- Excellent interpersonal skills in order to liaise at all levels of the organisation and with external bodies. Able to build and maintain relationships within and beyond the organisation
- Ability to quickly understand issues involving highly complex, sensitive and / or contentious information and communicate them clearly and succinctly to all levels within and outside the Trust, including where there are barriers to understanding within and across multiple organisations
Flexibility
Essential criteria
- Some requirement to travel regionally and nationally on occasions
- Flexible approach to work within and across organisational boundaries
- Able to travel between locations
- Ability to travel to other organisations to support the Organisational Development and Education and Training services at other organisations
Other
Essential criteria
- Strong level of self-awareness
- Robust and able to manage differing agendas and priorities within and across multiple services and professions
- Able to work at pace without compromising quality
- Team orientated – always looking to get the best from themselves and the team within and across multiple organisations
- Innate drive to continuously improve personally and professionally
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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
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- Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
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