Job summary
We are seeking a leader with an established clinical, teaching or research portfolio in health and social care, mental health, psychology or organisational development to lead our Interprofessional Portfolio, including education and training in social work, leadership and management, at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
The Head of Portfolio will play a key role, reporting to the Director of Education, in line management and delivery of the Trust's education and training provision. The postholder will have specific responsibility for the development of leadership and management training and education provision through responding to tenders and developing off the shelf and bespoke offers. This will include working with the commercial team to develop a suite of off the shelf courses and digital materials to strengthen our work in this area.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of high-quality teaching and an excellent student learning experience. They will be operationally responsible for staff within the portfolio. This will include the line management of staff to ensure adherence to organisational policies, procedures and processes and to deliver consistent educational provision that meets learner and organisational sponsor outcomes and the delivery of the education and training programmes. The post holder will be required to work closely with the Directors of Education to manage the resources of the portfolio ensuring efficient and accountable financial planning and implementation.
The post holder will have a key role in developing new business opportunities, which includes provision across the workforce/educational range: academically validated programmes at postgraduate and doctoral level, professionally accredited professional trainings, CPD and conferences. This will include working with the Development Project Manager, and other Heads of Portfolio to identify, assess and implement opportunities for portfolio developments in response to the strategic objectives of the Trust and the Division especially in relation to emerging workforce educational and development needs.
About us
The Trust has a national brief for training in the mental health professions, social care, education and forensic services across the age range, delivered by our Directorate of Education and Training. In 2020 the Trust was the first NHS body successful in obtaining registration with the Office for Students (OfS). Its academic awards are validated by university partners, mainly the University of Essex.
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve. The Trust aims to ensure that all job applicants, employees or clients are treated fairly and valued equally regardless of sex, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, domestic circumstances, age, race, colour, disablement, ethnic or national origin, social background or employment status, sexual orientation, religion, beliefs, HIV status, gender identity, political affiliation or trade union membership. Selection for training and development and promotion will be on the basis of the individual's ability to meet the requirements for the job. You are responsible for ensuring that the Trust's policies, procedures and obligation in respect of promoting equality and diversity are adhered to in relation to both staff and services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- achieved requisite qualification
- Relevant work experience
- Professional body membership or PhD in relevant subject
- Experience in the management and operational delivery of education and training at Post Graduate level.
- Experience in relation to ascertaining, planning and implementing education and training programmes that meet the needs of the health and social care workforce, working with children, young people, adults and families including supervision and leadership and management
- Excellent communication and leadership skills.
- Capacity to work effectively in complex institutional networks and management systems.
- Capacity to be externally facing and engage across a range of education programmes, professional disciplines and national and international sectors
- Proven ability to translate innovative ideas into operational delivery via a range of models including blended delivery.
- A capacity to identify, assess and develop long, short and international programmes with a commitment to the development of digital approaches in all educational provision
- Understanding of, and capacity to lead on, academic governance within the portfolio ensuring high standards in higher education.
- Ability to ensure equality, diversity and inclusion central to education and training provision that addresses issues of power, inequality and discrimination.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- achieved requisite qualification
- Relevant work experience
- Professional body membership or PhD in relevant subject
- Experience in the management and operational delivery of education and training at Post Graduate level.
- Experience in relation to ascertaining, planning and implementing education and training programmes that meet the needs of the health and social care workforce, working with children, young people, adults and families including supervision and leadership and management
- Excellent communication and leadership skills.
- Capacity to work effectively in complex institutional networks and management systems.
- Capacity to be externally facing and engage across a range of education programmes, professional disciplines and national and international sectors
- Proven ability to translate innovative ideas into operational delivery via a range of models including blended delivery.
- A capacity to identify, assess and develop long, short and international programmes with a commitment to the development of digital approaches in all educational provision
- Understanding of, and capacity to lead on, academic governance within the portfolio ensuring high standards in higher education.
- Ability to ensure equality, diversity and inclusion central to education and training provision that addresses issues of power, inequality and discrimination.
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
