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Job summary

Main area
Education
Grade
Band 8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
251-5278CORP-ADAPP
Employer
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Hampshire County Hospital
Town
Winchester
Salary
£58,972 - £68,525 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59
Interview date
24/05/2024

Employer heading

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Associate Director of Apprenticeships

Band 8b

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

Job overview

Do you have a passion for education and career progression and want to work with an organisation with a 'Good' Ofsted inspection for their apprenticeship programme?

Hampshire Hospitals have a unique and exciting opportunity for an Associate Director of Apprenticeship to join our team. As a Trust we deliver over 300 apprentices at any one time for our employees, enhancing there learning and development.

This role is responsible for providing strategic operations, training and business leadership for HHFT’s Apprenticeship provision including management of the £1 million levy investment; HHFT as in-house Training Provider of apprenticeships; facilitates placements through LDDA Assisted Internships programme (Project Choice); enabling it to support Hampshire Hospitals to deliver its vision: ‘to provide outstanding care to all of our patients’. 

Main duties of the job

This post is responsible for, the delivery of the Trust’s Apprenticeship Strategy and workforce plan through the development, design and delivery of high-quality in-house apprenticeships, to provide a range of career pathways to attract and retain our current and future workforce supply.

Responsible for scanning the horizon for potential business opportunities, identifying potential areas of growth and development, and coordinating and preparing bids for new business. This will require sharp analytical and strategic financial skills, as well as strong links into the Divisions, clinical and corporate services.  The post holder will use internal and external data sources to develop intelligence and to spot opportunities for future development, raising these through the Director of People and the Trust.

The AD for Apprenticeships will be motivated to increase growth and enhance the Trust’s reputation as both a training provider of outstanding services, and as an excellent partner. The post holder will foster and maintain close working relationships with the range of key commissioners, as well as key corporate and business functions in related Trusts or partnership organisations.

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria
  • Educated to 1st degree level or equivalent level of experience
  • Evidence of continuing professional development / leadership studies
  • Management qualification or equivalent level of experience
Desirable criteria
  • Project Management qualification or equivalent level of experience of delivering projects

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Understanding of the relationship between external stakeholders, commissioning organisations, external regulatory health bodies
  • Experience on leading on strategy development and programme / project management
  • Experience of presenting to a wide range of audiences
  • Management of services in a large multi-disciplinary organisation, including budget management for a department or service
  • Evidence of delivering measurable outcomes in appropriate timescales
Desirable criteria
  • Experience as a manager within the NHS

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to influence and negotiate
  • Ability to manage a complex workload under pressure and to delegate appropriately to deliver tangible outcomes in appropriate timescales.
  • Advanced decision making and judgement
Desirable criteria
  • Experience working with the Apprenticeship agenda, the levy, ESFA rules and guidelines, Ofsted and awarding bodies
  • Understanding of national healthcare education agenda

Other

Essential criteria
  • Ability to travel across all three Hampshire Hospitals sites

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employerDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Tim Powell
Job title
Chief People Officer
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01256 262256
Additional information

For further information please contact Heather Bennett EA to Chief People Officer on [email protected]

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