Job summary
GM Cancer Alliance is expanding the Cancer Academy team. We are looking to appoint a Digital Education Lead with creative flair, innovation and project management skills to lead on the development of products and services for digital learning and be responsible for the day-to-day management of the learner management system (LMS).
The applicant will use their experience in digital learning using a variety of authoring and media technologies, underpinned by good instructional design, to create high quality digital learning and services to support the culture of lifelong learning offered by the Cancer Academy. The Digital Education Lead will be required to interact with key stakeholders (from all care settings and professions) to develop eLearning and other educational offers to ensure seamless integration between digital solutions on a local, regional and national scale
Main duties of the job
- Lead on all digital aspects, working closely with subject matter experts to develop digital learning solutions and resources that meet workforce needs e.g. exploring education through AI
- Lead on the development of assets, packages, learner management system, learner integration with website and learner tracking to ensure a smooth learner experience, from digital front door to ongoing learning, by using the most relevant authoring tools and LMS course design approaches
- Work alongside other digital leads within other organisations to ensure the GM Cancer Academy digital assets can seamless interface with other digital solutions (e.g. ePortfolios and Passports) on local, regional and national scales
- Work closely with the Cancer Alliance Innovation leads to ensure digital solutions and educational offers are cutting edge
- Engage with stakeholders (internal and external) to support the creation of digital learning, identifying clear and realistic milestones
- Engage with learners to shape offers and work with groups who aren't engaging to understand why and make necessary adjustments
- Support the commissioning/procurement process of external digital learning suppliers within the Trusts Standing Financial Instructions
- Manage project plans with clearly defined timeframes ensuring that this contains clear objectives, tasks and identified leads, escalating any risks to the Senior Programme Lead for Education and relevant boards
About us
Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance (GM Cancer) is a venture that brings together patients, charities, NHS and academic institutions with the aim of securing world-class cancer outcomes and experience for our population. Greater Manchester Cancer is the cancer programme of the Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board.
The GM Cancer Academy is a Programme of work within the Workforce and Education Programme. The team are dynamic, diligent, and passionate about supporting the cancer workforce to ensure they have equitable access to training and education to develop the right skills to respond to the needs of people affected by cancer, adapt to new, improved ways of working, continue to modernise the way they work, and embrace technology to deliver the best quality healthcare.
This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of cancer workforce and education in Greater Manchester, and to essentially improve outcomes for people affected by cancer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Greater Manchester (GM) Cancer Academy is pleased to be advertising the position of Digital Education Lead. GM Cancer Academy is a programme of work within GM Cancer Alliances Workforce and Education programme and is the independent hub for cancer education across Greater Manchester. As the hive of cancer education, the Academy supports the development of a sustainable lifelong learning model for cancer care across all care settings. The programme ensures that our workforce is equipped with the skills and tools necessary to deliver the best patient care whilst supporting the delivery of the NHS People Plan and the Long Term Plan ambitions for cancer services. The Academy aims to reduce inequity around accessing cancer education and provides a mechanism to standardise training, education and career frameworks for the current and future non-medical workforce.
The post holder will lead on the design for all education material within the Cancer Academy. Experience of providing innovative learning solutions and project management skills will be required for the successful candidate. They will lead on the development of products and services for synchronous and asynchronous digital learning and be responsible for the day-to-day management of the learner management system (LMS).
The applicant will use their experience in digital learning using a variety of authoring and media technologies, underpinned by good instructional design, to create high quality digital learning and services to support the culture of lifelong learning offered by the Cancer Academy.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Leading Digital Development
- Ensure best practice and pedagogical principles are applied to all digital learning developments
- Work independently, with support where required to produce fit for purpose, innovative and timely learning solutions for the non-medical workforce.
- Work with designers and agencies to ensure they are aligned to the Cancer Academys design standards and processes
- Support the Senior Programme Lead for Education to deliver the GM Cancer Academy strategy and lead on innovative digital learning solutions
- Lead on the development of assets, packages, learner management system, learner integration with website and learner tracking to ensure a smooth learner experience, from digital front door to ongoing learning, by using the most relevant authoring tools and LMS course design approaches
- Work alongside other digital leads within other organisations to ensure the GM Cancer Academy digital assets can seamless interface with other digital solutions (e.g. ePortfolios and Passports) on local, regional and national scales
- Lead on maintenance for the Academy website as the independent digital hub for cancer education
- Lead on consultation periods for digital developments to ensure they are fit for purpose
Job description
Job responsibilities
Greater Manchester (GM) Cancer Academy is pleased to be advertising the position of Digital Education Lead. GM Cancer Academy is a programme of work within GM Cancer Alliances Workforce and Education programme and is the independent hub for cancer education across Greater Manchester. As the hive of cancer education, the Academy supports the development of a sustainable lifelong learning model for cancer care across all care settings. The programme ensures that our workforce is equipped with the skills and tools necessary to deliver the best patient care whilst supporting the delivery of the NHS People Plan and the Long Term Plan ambitions for cancer services. The Academy aims to reduce inequity around accessing cancer education and provides a mechanism to standardise training, education and career frameworks for the current and future non-medical workforce.
The post holder will lead on the design for all education material within the Cancer Academy. Experience of providing innovative learning solutions and project management skills will be required for the successful candidate. They will lead on the development of products and services for synchronous and asynchronous digital learning and be responsible for the day-to-day management of the learner management system (LMS).
The applicant will use their experience in digital learning using a variety of authoring and media technologies, underpinned by good instructional design, to create high quality digital learning and services to support the culture of lifelong learning offered by the Cancer Academy.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Leading Digital Development
- Ensure best practice and pedagogical principles are applied to all digital learning developments
- Work independently, with support where required to produce fit for purpose, innovative and timely learning solutions for the non-medical workforce.
- Work with designers and agencies to ensure they are aligned to the Cancer Academys design standards and processes
- Support the Senior Programme Lead for Education to deliver the GM Cancer Academy strategy and lead on innovative digital learning solutions
- Lead on the development of assets, packages, learner management system, learner integration with website and learner tracking to ensure a smooth learner experience, from digital front door to ongoing learning, by using the most relevant authoring tools and LMS course design approaches
- Work alongside other digital leads within other organisations to ensure the GM Cancer Academy digital assets can seamless interface with other digital solutions (e.g. ePortfolios and Passports) on local, regional and national scales
- Lead on maintenance for the Academy website as the independent digital hub for cancer education
- Lead on consultation periods for digital developments to ensure they are fit for purpose
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Undergraduate degree (or equivalent experience) in education technology / web/platforms development or similar
- Masters degree (or equivalent experience) in educational technology or related subject
Desirable
- Professional certification in eLearning or learning technology such as Certified Member of the Association for Learning Technology (CMALT)
- Project management qualification e.g. Agile Scrum or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Developing digital learning using appropriate authoring tools for optimal learner experience and tracking
- Leading on programmes of work and managing the development lifecycle to deliver quality outputs within budget and on schedule
- Extensive and recent experience utilising digital learning authoring tools, web interface development and multimedia design applications
- Administration, design and development of learning platforms e.g. LearnDash / Moodle
- Experience in supporting the application of digital and blended learning pedagogies and standards
- Experience in training needs analysis to develop programmes of learning in response
- Website design and use of content & learning management systems
- Multi-professional working
Desirable
- Experience of making and editing videos and animation
- Experience in graphic design and layout skills
- Experience in filming
- Experience of developing and marketing a service
- Experience of working within branding guidelines
- Experience in digital innovation
Skills
Essential
- High level of IT literacy with working knowledge of current MS tools, including the Office 365, and good knowledge of the Windows environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Able to produce concise and insightful written materials for senior stakeholders or a broader audience as appropriate
- Experience of creating and delivering engaging presentations to a broad range of different stakeholders
- Able to influence others to develop a shared vision and ambition
- Able to challenge other team members and senior colleagues when necessary to ensure programmes of work are delivered in line with the Cancer Academy's standards, ambition and processes
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial information
- Demonstrates strong analysis skills and can simplify complex information from a wide range of sources where material may be conflicting
- Can use experience to make inferences and act where information is incomplete
- Can develop short and long term plans and strategies for their projects and adjust as required
- Can monitor progress against plans, escalating risks and issues as appropriate
- Works autonomously to deliver programmes of work and projects assigned to them.
- Can make informed decisions in the absence of complete information
- Can work to demanding and changing timescales
Values
Essential
- Committed to quality in all that they do
- Values diversity and difference and promotes equality of opportunity
- Committed to working to help clinicians deliver better outcomes for patients
- Committed to patient and carer involvement in the development of health services
- Committed to the use of evidence and clinical consensus to bring about change
- Operates with integrity and openness
- Committed to personal development and supporting others to do the same
- Challenges received wisdom and acceptance of the status quo
Other
Essential
- Able to travel across Greater Manchester
- Work flexibly around the Academy needs, to include early mornings and evenings on an ad hoc basis
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Undergraduate degree (or equivalent experience) in education technology / web/platforms development or similar
- Masters degree (or equivalent experience) in educational technology or related subject
Desirable
- Professional certification in eLearning or learning technology such as Certified Member of the Association for Learning Technology (CMALT)
- Project management qualification e.g. Agile Scrum or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Developing digital learning using appropriate authoring tools for optimal learner experience and tracking
- Leading on programmes of work and managing the development lifecycle to deliver quality outputs within budget and on schedule
- Extensive and recent experience utilising digital learning authoring tools, web interface development and multimedia design applications
- Administration, design and development of learning platforms e.g. LearnDash / Moodle
- Experience in supporting the application of digital and blended learning pedagogies and standards
- Experience in training needs analysis to develop programmes of learning in response
- Website design and use of content & learning management systems
- Multi-professional working
Desirable
- Experience of making and editing videos and animation
- Experience in graphic design and layout skills
- Experience in filming
- Experience of developing and marketing a service
- Experience of working within branding guidelines
- Experience in digital innovation
Skills
Essential
- High level of IT literacy with working knowledge of current MS tools, including the Office 365, and good knowledge of the Windows environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Able to produce concise and insightful written materials for senior stakeholders or a broader audience as appropriate
- Experience of creating and delivering engaging presentations to a broad range of different stakeholders
- Able to influence others to develop a shared vision and ambition
- Able to challenge other team members and senior colleagues when necessary to ensure programmes of work are delivered in line with the Cancer Academy's standards, ambition and processes
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial information
- Demonstrates strong analysis skills and can simplify complex information from a wide range of sources where material may be conflicting
- Can use experience to make inferences and act where information is incomplete
- Can develop short and long term plans and strategies for their projects and adjust as required
- Can monitor progress against plans, escalating risks and issues as appropriate
- Works autonomously to deliver programmes of work and projects assigned to them.
- Can make informed decisions in the absence of complete information
- Can work to demanding and changing timescales
Values
Essential
- Committed to quality in all that they do
- Values diversity and difference and promotes equality of opportunity
- Committed to working to help clinicians deliver better outcomes for patients
- Committed to patient and carer involvement in the development of health services
- Committed to the use of evidence and clinical consensus to bring about change
- Operates with integrity and openness
- Committed to personal development and supporting others to do the same
- Challenges received wisdom and acceptance of the status quo
Other
Essential
- Able to travel across Greater Manchester
- Work flexibly around the Academy needs, to include early mornings and evenings on an ad hoc basis
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).
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).
