Lead for Professional Development

Job summary

Are you a registered health or social care professional who has a passion for education and the ability to form close working partnerships with professional and operational leaders to understand workforce development priorities and work together to implement workforce planning solutions?

If so, we are looking for a highly motivated individual to join Southern Health's Leadership, Education and Development (LEAD) team as the Lead for Professional Development.

This post holds a key leadership position responsible for providing expert professional and educational knowledge for a wide-ranging and complex portfolio of education activities which relate to workforce planning initiatives and the development of our registrant health and social care professional workforce.

If you are interested in applying for this post, please read the attached Job Description and contact us should you require an informal chat or visit.

The post is based at Moorgreen Hospital/Tatchbury Mount but will involve travel across Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust and ability to work from home on occasions.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities of this post will be:

Supporting the Head of Professional Development with the operational, financial and business management of internal and external income streams, including the Apprenticeship Levy and CPD funding for registrants.

Leading on the recruitment, selection, and development initiatives for nursing and AHP supply, for example, dual field roles, return to practice and rotational registrant posts.

Ensuring that all internationally educated nurses and AHPs have access to a programme of educational support to gain professional body registration.

Scoping, designing and implementing educational development programmes for registered professionals, for example, an Accelerated Band 5 to Band 6 Transition Pathway

This post requires an individual with experience in an education leadership role to provide operational direction and line management for the team leaders within the Professional Development workstream.

In addition, the post holder will need to be flexible & adaptable as there will be a requirement to maintain appropriate clinical competencies and skills to proactively support clinical services at times of high demand and the opportunity to work clinically during the year.

The post holder will report to the Band 8b Head of Professional Development.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?

Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?

We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Moorgreen Hospital

Botley Road, West End

Southampton

Hampshire

SO30 3JB

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Moorgreen Hospital

Botley Road, West End

Southampton

Hampshire

SO30 3JB

Employer's website

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

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