PET-CT Academy Programme Manager

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Communication and leadership

• Be the point of contact for AML in management of the Education contract. Maintaining strong working relationships, managing differing and competing priorities and empowering partnership.
• Effectively communicate with PET CT Academy and AML contract leads to ensure the creation of a high-quality programme of education, meeting the needs of the workforce, the contract and the partnership.
• Be the main point of contact for all education faculty, liaising with each person to ensure operational delivery, manage difficulties and to give feedback on performance. Be responsible for working closely with educational leads from external academy partners to develop the required training programme.
• Work with and coordinate clinical experts within and outside The Christie to develop and deliver a suite of educational development and CPD programmes for the current and future health care professionals delivering PET-CT services in the UK. Be able to guide and challenge thinking to ensure cutting-edge educational delivery.
• Create new and innovative approaches to PET-CT education, embracing AI and cutting-edge technology within all modalities of delivery.
• Liaise with AML to explain, negotiate, develop and embed the educational programme.
• Co-ordinate educational activity, liaising with senior radiologists, physicists, technologists, and admin managers to ensure that planning and delivery deadlines are met.
• Chair meetings to discuss curriculum development. Manage and create solutions from sensitive discussions relating to differences of opinion and be able to challenge senior staff (medical and non-medical) with strongly held beliefs and opinions.
• Draft and present national delivery reports relating to activity and outcomes. Be able to describe and present complex ideas and information in a straightforward way when reporting to Board, and to the Christie-AML partnership governance board.
• Undertake diverse horizon scanning, ensuring the Academy is at the forefront of PET-CT Education.
• Lead the PET-CT education team with kindness and respect ensuring all team members are empowered to fulfill their roles.

Planning, Strategic and Organisation

• Work with the PET-CT SMT to align the education offering and delivery mode to the requirements of the PET-CT national contract, NHSE policy and deliverables for service, and workforce requirements.
• Ensure that long and midterm educational plans are responsive to national drivers, national workforce demands and take account of changes in professional bodies requirements for practice.
• Continue planning sessions with radiology, physics and technologist educational leads to develop the educational content of the different professional programmes of learning taking account of method of delivery.
• Liaise with professional bodies to ensure recognition of training and appropriate CPD registration.
• Work with the Christie Education and external academy partners to ensure publicity and promotion of all educational events, optimising capacity and attendance.

Service development and Governance

• Devise and develop local policies and operating procedures to ensure the smooth running of all educational programmes.
• Work with Christie Education to develop and then apply a quality framework for all delivery which meets accessibility, inclusivity and educational quality markers.
• Devise systems for capturing quality data from all educational programmes and prepare/present these reports at the appropriate local and national governance systems overseeing this contract.
• Ensure that educational programmes meet specific learning objectives and goals.
• Develop systems for monitoring acceptability and effectiveness of all training courses.
• Analyse outcomes and work with faculty to develop and improve educational materials and educational delivery.

Financial and Physical Resources

• With the finance team, plan and manage the PET-CT education budget, preparing regular reports for the PET CT Academy SMT.
• Take day-to-day responsibility for managing the non-pay elements of the PET-CT education budget ensuring SFI compliance.
• Be responsible for the commissioning, quality assurance and upkeep of educational platforms and technical resources, ensuring all procurement processes are adhered to.
• Commission training, create educational contracts and manage educational contracts with other Trust and AML departments and external bodies as required.
• Work with the Director of education, teaching & quality, and finance team to review budgetary requirements on an annual basis.

Systems and data management

• Devise and develop systems for monitoring training requirements, monitoring training delivery and assessing output.
• Analyse outcome data and work with teams to ensure improvement of outcomes.
• Work with AML to review data, aligning it with scanning and workforce growth predictions.
• Work with relevant external partners to create a service-wide in-depth training needs analysis, covering all technologists, referrers, reported, scientists, nurses, clinical assistants, call centre staff and managers.

Equality and Diversity

• Take responsibility for ensuring an inclusive and accessible educational portfolio, reviewing all elements of accessibility and learning needs.
• Collect equality data on learners, and ensure inclusivity data is reported and fed into development delivery and updating of all programmes in the portfolio.
• To carry out your duties in a way that supports equality and values diversity. This responsibility includes your actions in relation to all programme stakeholders.
• To lead the promotion and support of equality in access to educational activity and value diversity ensuring the service you provide meets the needs of all service users.

Other

• Be responsible for promoting the work of the Trust and supporting its wider activities.
• Be responsible for ensuring that personal professional and corporate essential training requirements, as dictated by the trust, are met in a timely manner.
• Proactively engage in the PDR process, being responsible for booking an appointment and completing preparation work for annual PDR appraisal. Engage in the PDR process and take responsibility for drafting a summary of the discussion and objectives.
• Support the division and at times undertake other activities to ensure the smooth running of Christie Education.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Masters level qualification or equivalent experience in a relevant subject.
• Clinical qualification relevant to the national PET-CT service.
• Qualification in education.

Desirable criteria

• PGCE.
• Technical learning qualification.
• Project management qualification.
• Business management or leadership qualification.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in health care education in the NHS or university sector.
• Experience of working in the PET-CT nuclear medicine, radiotherapy or radiology fields.
• Experience of leading organisational, regional or national projects or programmes.
• Experience of creating effective, innovative learning programmes.
• Experience of managing change, managing performance, working to deadlines and managing difficulties.
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries.
• Experience of presenting to and liaising with senior clinical and non-clinical staff.
• Experience in managing a team, ensuring delivery and quality of outputs.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of managing budgets.
• Experience developing a new educational or service initiative.
• Regional or national project management experience.
• Experience of developing e-learning programmes.
• Experience with virtual learning environments.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to communicate in difficult situations with sensitivity and to manage emotionally charged conversations.
• Ability to respectfully challenge thinking and shape beliefs.
• Ability to negotiate on all levels with managers, executives and professionals of all disciplines.
• Leadership, enthusiasm and motivational characteristics. The ability to "bring people with you".
• Ability to work independently, manage own time, work to deadlines, function under pressure and know when to ask for help.
• Ability to make decisions in pressurised and emotional situations.
• Being innovative, constructively critical, self-critical, and able to articulate a rationale amongst senior colleagues.
• Ability to manage complex data, interpret outcomes, and create simple yet effective reports.

Desirable criteria

• Having attention to detail, being thorough and organised.
• The ability to innovate and see new opportunities, to think outside the box.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of technical education platforms and web-enabled learning.
• Knowledge of customer management systems.
• Computer literate with Microsoft Office including Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of developments in e-learning.

Other

Essential criteria

• Willing to travel throughout the country and stay away from base to organise and deliver training.
• Driving Licence and use of a car.

The closing date for this post may be extended if there are insufficient applicants or brought forward if there is a high volume of applicants.

We want to ensure that everyone who works at the Christie or uses our services is welcomed, valued and treated with dignity and respect. The Christie values diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for all and fair representation across the organisation at all levels. In support of these commitments, we particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority people and people with disabilities for this post. Appointment will be only on merit.

We are committed to creating a balanced and diverse workforce. As such we welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Together we will foster inclusion and tackle inequity and health inequalities in cancer care.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.

All positions within the Christie are subject to the receipt of satisfactory written references, medical clearance and evidence of your Right to Work in the UK. Some roles will require a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check. Please note if you are successfully appointed to a post with this Trust, you will be required to pay for your own DBS Disclosure.

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