Senior Education Manager - Allied health Professions

By acting as a fully integrated member of the WTE Regional Clinical Leadership Team (AHP), you will ensure that the AHP agenda and regional delivery is achieved.

Supporting the Assistant Director of Clinical Leadership and Education – AHP, in the overall management, development, and organisation of the WTE Regional AHP team including the regional quality management, improvement, and associated education commissioning and performance management programme aligned to the priorities set out within the WTE Mandate and the WTE Quality Framework in the context of regulatory requirements.

Communicate, provide, and present highly complex information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including:

1. Regional ICS footprint
2. NHS England
3. Local Authorities
4. NHS ICB Chief AHPs, Provider Chief AHPs, AHP Council Chairs, Managers & Clinicians.
5. General Practice providers
6. Public Health England
7. Local authority representatives
8. Independent Sector
9. Education providers
10. Chief AHP Officer for England and the National WT&E AHP programme
11. Professional and statutory regulators
12. Sector Skills Councils (Skills for Health and Skills for Care).

The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:

1. Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
2. Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
3. Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care.
4. Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation.
5. Delivering value for money.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher.

Delivering Results/Functional Responsibilities:

1. Responsible for programme delivery for an assigned portfolio of local and shared regional programmes of work.
2. Develops long-term, strategic delivery plans for assigned programmes of work.
3. Responsible for setting and managing the performance of allocated AHP programmes against short, medium, and long-term key performance indicators.
4. Accurately evaluates stakeholder needs from a range of qualitative and quantitative data sources (programme performance data, strategic delivery plans stakeholders’ input, commissioned research).
5. Prioritisation and delegation of complex and competing/conflicting work programmes (e.g., differing ICS priorities within the footprint, differing education provider views etc.).
6. Uses insight, experience, and an evidence-based approach (data triangulation, after action review, information systems etc.) to inform decision making.
7. Delegated budget-setting responsibility for a number of assigned workforce transformation programmes, ensuring projects are delivered within agreed departmental budget, financial risks are reported and managed, and value for the taxpayer.
8. Responsible for ensuring programmes of work are aligned to and successfully deliver regional strategic objectives, KPIs and regulatory compliance.
9. Adapts plans to account changes in government policy, system needs, technological advances, and evaluation of a range of performance data.
10. Deputises for the Assistant Director of Clinical Leadership and Education – AHP.
11. Building strong relationships with senior (Board and Chief AHP level) external stakeholders, influencing decision making to achieve strategic outcomes where no formal line management or organisational spheres of control exist.
12. Delegated authority to negotiate to gain consensus amongst senior external stakeholders on complex and contentious issues in a political environment relating to local/regional workforce transformation priorities.
13. Ensures the appropriate allocation of internal/external resources and managing risk across a number of competing work programmes to ensure timescales/targets are met.
14. Measures and evaluates the outcomes of strategic, tactical, and operational decision making and performance of the programme portfolio using evidence-based approach and the appropriate use of robust performance management and research methodologies, information systems research and reporting (weekly and monthly reporting aggregating to quarterly review and contributing to annual reviews).
15. Ensure the adoption of best practice and learning from AHP programmes outcomes are shared regionally and inform future workforce transformation strategy.
16. Line management responsibility for a project team, including performance review and development support, contributes to setting strategic objectives and responsible for translating into tactical priorities ensuring alignment with WTE national and external agenda.
17. Procure/commission programmes of work as requested.
18. To produce reports on progress against plan, for internal assurance, ICSs and other Boards and Committees as required.