L&D lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job purpose

The Learning and Development Lead will lead on the development, co-ordination, and delivery of a range of L&D interventions that support the delivery of the MCH People strategy including:

Operational delivery of the L&D service including:

o Design, delivery and management of corporate, clinical, and local induction.

o Ensuring statutory and mandatory training is designed and delivered efficiently and in a way that promotes safety for staff, and patients, and maintains compliance.

o Procurement of all training to ensure compliance with standing financial procedures and quality provision that meets the needs of services/pillars.

o Line management of the L&D team

o Leading the annual learning/training needs analysis for non-statutory and mandatory courses

o Maintain and review the learning and development policy.

o Maintain and review the PDR policy and compliance.

o Supporting the recruitment and development of apprenticeships within the organisation.

Monitors delegated L&D related budgets ensuring risks are escalated to the HR Director

Management of apprenticeship the apprenticeship levy including:

o Supporting managers with the recruitment and ongoing management of apprentices

o Maximising the apprenticeship levy funding

o Procurement and quality assurance of training providers

o Acting as a liaison between providers and employees when necessary

Leadership Programmes:

o Support the design, delivery and commissioning of leadership and management programme.

o Co-ordination of the NHS Staff Survey working closely with HR Business Partners and ESR lead

Lead the staff flu vaccination campaign with the Deputy Director of Nursing

Role requirement and person specification

Criteria

Essential

Qualifications, training, knowledge, and experience

Degree in education/learning and development or equivalent experience

Highly specialist in-depth knowledge of L&D including apprenticeship programmes, commissioning of training and development relevant to the health and social care sector.

Experience of managing complex projects with conflicting demands and deadlines

Working knowledge of procurement procedures and SBS to commission new training providers, raise POs and pay invoices.

Communication skills

Ability to prepare and produce highly complex, sensitive, and contentious information in a concise manner for dissemination to a broad range of stakeholders.

Work in collaboration with key stakeholders to build and maintain working partnerships including HR colleagues, staff, managers, union bodies, Health Education England, training providers, Universities, and other external agencies.

Present to wide ranging audiences on a range of L&D programmes and projects.

Ability to negotiate with external organisations, for example, training providers

Analytical and judgemental skills

Analyse complex issues and make recommendations on a range of options, for example, training needs analysis results, staff survey results, usage of apprenticeship levy monies and other budgets.

Identifies risks relating to L&D projects and makes recommendations for their resolution.

Lead procurement exercises for a range of L&D programmes ensuring best value for money

Planning and organisational skills

Plan and organise a complex range of activities that will require adjustment and flexibility e.g. L&D programmes, staff survey, staff flu vaccination programme.

Run procurement exercises in-line with financial and procurement legislation.

Lead on the annual training needs analysis

Physical skills

Standard keyboard skills

Responsibility for patient care

Has incidental contact with patients/clients but would provide non-clinical advice when and where necessary

Responsibility for policy and service development

Proposes policies that impact on own area of work and beyond e.g. learning and development, PDR policy

Financial and physical resources

Monitors L&D budgets

Contributes to forecasting of L&D budgets

Human resources

Manages L&D team e.g. appraisal, recruitment, development planning, performance management.

Provides an advisory service to managers and staff on L&OD

Responsible for the delivery of the L&D service

Information resources

Occasional requirements to create reports e.g. training trends, training needs analysis, budget monitoring

Research and development

Undertakes surveys and research as necessary to own work

Freedom to Act

Able to work autonomously guided by principles and organisational/occupational policies and regulation.

Provides specialist advice to managers and staff on L&OD matters

Effort factors

Physical - Combination of sitting, standing walking - light physical effort.

Mental work pattern unpredictable e.g. managing team, covering facilitation, frequent requirement for concentrations to write reports, procurement specifications, budget monitoring.

Emotional occasional exposure to emotional circumstances e.g. managing team performance, feeding back learner progress, facilitating difficult conversations.

Working conditions exposure to unpleasant working conditions is rare

Person Specification

Experince

Essential

• Experience of leading a L&D team
• Experience of working with the apprentice levy
• Experience of managing a range of projects

Desirable

• Experience with OLM

Attitude

Essential

• Ability to work in partnership and part of a team
• Ability to negotiate and drive down price
• Ability to lead a team

Desirable

• Proven track record of managing TNA across a complex organisation

MCH Values

Essential

• Good understanding of MCH values

Past Experience

Essential

• Evidence of understanding the levy
• Evidence of managing a budget
• Evidence of managing poor attendance staff

Desirable

• Evidence of bringing new ideas to the orgnisation

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Medway Community Healthcare

Address

MCH House

Gillingham Business Park, Bailey Drive

Gillingham

ME8 0WG

Employer's website

https://www.medwaycommunityhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)