Job summary
This is an exciting and influential role in the field of leadership and management skills facilitation. Reporting jointly to the Maguire Communication & Leadership Academy and the Organisational Development & Engagement Specialist in the OD team, this role focuses on developing leadership & management talent within The Christie. This post will run until September 2026 proof of concept role which will be reviewed and potentially extended. Leadership & management skills are crucial to developing effective organisations, a positive inclusive culture, and both patient and staff well-being. The Maguire Communication & leadership academy mission is to support health and social care staff in every role and at every stage of their career, developing compassionate, effective skills in communication, coaching, leadership and management.Working across both the OD and Education teams, the Leadership and Management facilitator will design, deliver, commission, signposting and evaluate our leadership and management portfolio for the Trust. They will support the roll out of the leadership and management development frameworks, and the inclusive culture leadership initiatives in the Trust.Additionally, as part of the Maguire Communication and leadership skills academy, the individual will offer highly specialised, expert knowledge and skills to support the development, facilitation, and evaluation of our full range of gold standard leadership, management and communication skills programmes
Main duties of the job
You should be experienced and competent in planning, designing and delivering training using a variety of facilitation and teaching approaches, both face to face, virtually, blended and in a e-format. We're particularly looking for candidates who are innovative, push boundaries, and can create a learning culture that translates the trusts values and principles into the busy workplace. Additionally, you will be able to appraise external courses for impact and outcome and will have experience in guiding people to identify the right learning for themselves.Suitable candidates will have substantial experience as a leadership and management educator, will demonstrate a passion for interactive, game changing facilitation and teaching approaches and enjoy supporting our people and patient care. They will understand and promote the concepts of equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging and engagement in all activity undertakenYou will have the ability to work with engage, motivate, influence, and enthuse others, showing a passion for behaviour changing education and an empathy with the pressures of busy NHS professionals. You will be able to evidence that you can push boundaries, innovate, work autonomously, deliver to deadline under pressure, whilst maintaining professional boundaries, managing budgets, being sufficiently flexible to meet the needs of the workforce You will be a compassionate and supportive colleague to others in the team.
About us
The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.
Job description
Job responsibilities
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES1. Take responsibility for the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of a range oftraining events and services to meet leadership and management training needs of TheTrust and other Maguire client groups internally and externally.2. Deliver training in a variety of settings, including face to face and on-line, using specialistfacilitation and group development skills adapting learning to groups needs andrequirements .3. Deliver specialist knowledge to a range of colleagues which support the strategicdevelopment of high-quality leadership and management skills informed by nationalpolicy, Trust cultural reviews and contemporary research in both management andleadership practice and educational delivery.4. Provide expert support to workforce colleagues, to proactively identify developmentpathways, and specialist training needs and opportunities for all Christie staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES1. Take responsibility for the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of a range oftraining events and services to meet leadership and management training needs of TheTrust and other Maguire client groups internally and externally.2. Deliver training in a variety of settings, including face to face and on-line, using specialistfacilitation and group development skills adapting learning to groups needs andrequirements .3. Deliver specialist knowledge to a range of colleagues which support the strategicdevelopment of high-quality leadership and management skills informed by nationalpolicy, Trust cultural reviews and contemporary research in both management andleadership practice and educational delivery.4. Provide expert support to workforce colleagues, to proactively identify developmentpathways, and specialist training needs and opportunities for all Christie staff.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Degree in relevant field
- Post graduate academic qualification degree or professional equivalent.in a relevant leadership & management, OD, CIPD, communication, or psychosocial area
- Post-graduate teaching qualification.
Desirable
- Membership of CIPD or BPS
- OD qualification
- Coaching / mentoring qualification
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Extensive experience in designing, facilitating and interactive teaching sessions courses across leadership and management l levels Facilitating using experiential teaching methods.
- Delivering innovative training to professional learners using in both classroom and virtual environments
- Working with single and multiprofessional groups
- Leading organisation wide training initiatives, tailoring programmes to identified need and working across multiple departments and different cultures
- Experience of being creative, challenging mindsets and habits, working to create a psychologically safe environment for staff to flourish
- Using coaching approaches to develop people
Desirable
- Experience of leadership and management facilitation in health care
- Experience of delivering leadership and management frameworks
- Commissioning external groups to deliver educational programmes of work
- Supporting others to Train as trainers in the field.
- Experience of working in a health or social care setting
- Conducting training needs analysis
- Giving and receiving feedback to others for development of practice
SKILLS
Essential
- Highly developed written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Proven ability to deliver training sessions using a range non-didactic experiential and interactive methods involving group interaction
- Ability to give sensitive or challenging feedback to senior colleagues in training situations.
- Can manage complex and challenging group dynamics in training situations. This can include highly emotive and distressing subjects and reactions.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Sound judgement, decision making and attention to detail.
- Ability to work independently and maintain high standards.
- Ability to push boundaries and have resilience being able to bounce back and to adapt in the face of challenging circumstances.
- Planning and organising - ability to manage conflicting priorities and consistently meet deadlines.
- Ability to establish and maintain collaborative relationships to gain co-operation (influencing/ persuasive/motivational).
Desirable
- Research and/or evaluation skills in communication skills training field
- Proficiency in Microsoft packages and learning platforms e.g. Zoom / teams
- Experience of creating e-learning resources
- Skills in technological equipment to enhance teaching techniques
KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of leadership and management theory and practice
- Knowledge of approaches to embedding cultural inclusivity into leadership and management training and roles
- Significant knowledge of o Behaviour change models o Communication models & strategies o Experiential teaching strategies o Theory of managing group dynamics o Coaching & mentoring
- A practical understanding of the principles and application of andragogy (adult learning).
VALUES
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate inclusive, people focused, supportive, transformational values.
OTHER
Essential
- Working hours can be regular, with a degree of flexibility to meet the needs of the service
Desirable
- Willing to undertake occasional travel with overnight stays for face to face activities
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Degree in relevant field
- Post graduate academic qualification degree or professional equivalent.in a relevant leadership & management, OD, CIPD, communication, or psychosocial area
- Post-graduate teaching qualification.
Desirable
- Membership of CIPD or BPS
- OD qualification
- Coaching / mentoring qualification
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Extensive experience in designing, facilitating and interactive teaching sessions courses across leadership and management l levels Facilitating using experiential teaching methods.
- Delivering innovative training to professional learners using in both classroom and virtual environments
- Working with single and multiprofessional groups
- Leading organisation wide training initiatives, tailoring programmes to identified need and working across multiple departments and different cultures
- Experience of being creative, challenging mindsets and habits, working to create a psychologically safe environment for staff to flourish
- Using coaching approaches to develop people
Desirable
- Experience of leadership and management facilitation in health care
- Experience of delivering leadership and management frameworks
- Commissioning external groups to deliver educational programmes of work
- Supporting others to Train as trainers in the field.
- Experience of working in a health or social care setting
- Conducting training needs analysis
- Giving and receiving feedback to others for development of practice
SKILLS
Essential
- Highly developed written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Proven ability to deliver training sessions using a range non-didactic experiential and interactive methods involving group interaction
- Ability to give sensitive or challenging feedback to senior colleagues in training situations.
- Can manage complex and challenging group dynamics in training situations. This can include highly emotive and distressing subjects and reactions.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Sound judgement, decision making and attention to detail.
- Ability to work independently and maintain high standards.
- Ability to push boundaries and have resilience being able to bounce back and to adapt in the face of challenging circumstances.
- Planning and organising - ability to manage conflicting priorities and consistently meet deadlines.
- Ability to establish and maintain collaborative relationships to gain co-operation (influencing/ persuasive/motivational).
Desirable
- Research and/or evaluation skills in communication skills training field
- Proficiency in Microsoft packages and learning platforms e.g. Zoom / teams
- Experience of creating e-learning resources
- Skills in technological equipment to enhance teaching techniques
KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of leadership and management theory and practice
- Knowledge of approaches to embedding cultural inclusivity into leadership and management training and roles
- Significant knowledge of o Behaviour change models o Communication models & strategies o Experiential teaching strategies o Theory of managing group dynamics o Coaching & mentoring
- A practical understanding of the principles and application of andragogy (adult learning).
VALUES
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate inclusive, people focused, supportive, transformational values.
OTHER
Essential
- Working hours can be regular, with a degree of flexibility to meet the needs of the service
Desirable
- Willing to undertake occasional travel with overnight stays for face to face activities
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).
