Job summary
Job Title: Multi professional Mentoring Programme Co-Director (PD)
Hours of work: 4hr 10 min per week (1 session each co-leads)
Remuneration: £55 ,000- £65,000 pro rata dependent on experience
Contract length: Fixed term 12 mths with potential to continue
Responsible for: NCL Mentoring Scheme as co- lead
Accountable to: NCL Training Hub executive leads
Responsible to: NCL Training Hub Barnet / Programme Manager
Location: Flexibility of remote working, with availability of NCL Training Hub offices within North Central London. There may be a requirement to attend face to face events or meetings within the role with notice given.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity to provide joint clinical leadership of the delivery of North Central London (NCLs) Supporting Mentors Scheme, forming part of a suite of interlocking Primary Care (PC) Clinicians recruitment and retention initiatives.
The successful post holder will deliver NCLs vision to develop and access a cohort of locally based and highly experienced mentors to support other NCL multi-professional PC clinicians.
This will be delivered through funded training of a recognised mentoring qualification or its equivalent. Mentors will be matched appropriately with mentees across NCL, to enhance their experience of general practice and to help newer clinicians settle into their roles successfully.
About us
The North Central London (NCL) Training Hub is a network of multidisciplinary primary care teams, community providers, and social care providers. Training Hubs receive core funding from Health Education England, but we also have extra commissions from NHS England & Improvement and Local Authorities.
The NCL Training Hub has been established to enhance training, education, and workforce development with specific focus on enhancing the recruitment of new, and retention of current, staff. The NCL Training Hub has developed innovative educational and workforce initiatives for primary, community and social care. During 2021-22, these innovative models have been shortlisted and won national awards, including from HSJ and Nursing Times
Job description
Job responsibilities
Work with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, including:
North Central London Training Hub leads (across all boroughs)
ICB Primary Care, Workforce & Senior Management Teams
Primary Care Networks (PCNs), General practice, GP Provider Alliance
Local Medical, Dental, Optometry & Community Pharmacy Committees
Adult Social Care Providers
5x North Central London Councils
NHS England Workforce, Training & Education Directorate
NHS England Primary Care team
Voluntary & Community Sectors Organisations (VCSOs)
Schools, Colleges, HEIs and local Adult Learning centres
1.2. Develop and maintain excellent relationships with practices and local Higher Education
Institutes
1.3. Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services, and
initiatives which may be highly complex, sensitive, political, and contain contentious
information with the aim of providing information and analytical advice to the teams
1.4. Develop and maintain excellent relationships with providers across care settings,
education providers and other partners to ensure continuous development of new
career pathways, development, and implementation of new ways of working and
relevant recruitment and retention strategies
Job description
Job responsibilities
Work with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, including:
North Central London Training Hub leads (across all boroughs)
ICB Primary Care, Workforce & Senior Management Teams
Primary Care Networks (PCNs), General practice, GP Provider Alliance
Local Medical, Dental, Optometry & Community Pharmacy Committees
Adult Social Care Providers
5x North Central London Councils
NHS England Workforce, Training & Education Directorate
NHS England Primary Care team
Voluntary & Community Sectors Organisations (VCSOs)
Schools, Colleges, HEIs and local Adult Learning centres
1.2. Develop and maintain excellent relationships with practices and local Higher Education
Institutes
1.3. Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services, and
initiatives which may be highly complex, sensitive, political, and contain contentious
information with the aim of providing information and analytical advice to the teams
1.4. Develop and maintain excellent relationships with providers across care settings,
education providers and other partners to ensure continuous development of new
career pathways, development, and implementation of new ways of working and
relevant recruitment and retention strategies
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Primary clinical healthcare qualification
- Coaching or Mentoring qualification ILM 5 or above, or training through the Mentoring Scheme.
- Evidence of continuing personal and professional development
- Membership/Fellowship of a College, Faculty, professional association and/or regulatory body
- Attendance at courses aimed to support educational development (example: educator courses, Train the Trainer, etc.)
- Experience of Multiprofessional working and training
Experience
Essential
- Substantial broad range of post qualifying clinical experience
- Experience of working in the Primary Care setting
- Experience of having worked across professional and organisational boundaries
- Experience of facilitating change
- Experience of leading education programmes and of managing, mentoring and supervising learners
- Experience of providing clinical supervision
- Experience of clinical and educational leadership and innovation, including managing a multi-professional team
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Primary clinical healthcare qualification
- Coaching or Mentoring qualification ILM 5 or above, or training through the Mentoring Scheme.
- Evidence of continuing personal and professional development
- Membership/Fellowship of a College, Faculty, professional association and/or regulatory body
- Attendance at courses aimed to support educational development (example: educator courses, Train the Trainer, etc.)
- Experience of Multiprofessional working and training
Experience
Essential
- Substantial broad range of post qualifying clinical experience
- Experience of working in the Primary Care setting
- Experience of having worked across professional and organisational boundaries
- Experience of facilitating change
- Experience of leading education programmes and of managing, mentoring and supervising learners
- Experience of providing clinical supervision
- Experience of clinical and educational leadership and innovation, including managing a multi-professional team
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.
