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Digital Trainer
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
380-SS0798
Employer
Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Farm Villa/Hybrid
Town
Maidstone
Salary
£39,959 - £48,117 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
19/06/2026 23:59

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Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust logo

Lead Digital Trainer

Band 6

 

We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.

Here are some clips of our Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us

Would you like to work flexibly?  In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.

Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

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Job overview

We are looking for an experienced Lead Digital Trainer to play a key role in supporting our clinical and corporate staff through ongoing digital change. This role is about making digital systems usable in the real world — helping staff feel confident, supported and safe when using digital tools in their everyday work.

You will lead the design and delivery of digital training across the Trust, making sure learning is practical, inclusive and closely aligned to clinical workflows. You’ll work closely with clinical teams, digital projects and the Digital Champion Network to ensure training genuinely supports staff and improves patient care.

This is a hands‑on leadership role, combining training delivery, planning, quality assurance and line management, with a strong focus on staff experience during change.

What we’re looking for

You will have strong experience in designing and delivering engaging digital or IT training, ideally in a healthcare or complex operational environment. You’ll be confident translating technical or clinical change into clear, accessible learning and comfortable supporting staff with very different levels of digital confidence.

Experience of NHS systems, clinical environments, e‑learning design or Microsoft 365 is desirable but not essential if you can demonstrate transferable skills.

Main duties of the job

Training Design and Delivery
Lead the end‑to‑end design and delivery of digital training for Trust‑wide systems and transformation initiatives. Convert complex system and workflow changes into clear, practical training aligned to real clinical and operational practice. Deliver training using blended methods including face‑to‑face sessions, virtual, webinars and e‑learning. Ensure all materials meet Trust standards, accessibility requirements and branding guidelines.

Digital Transformation Support
Support digital adoption, safe system use and benefits realisation by ensuring training focuses on day‑to‑day system use rather than functionality alone. Work closely with project teams, clinical services and operational leads to align training with service needs and project timelines.

Planning, Delivery and Support
Develop and maintain training plans linked to project milestones and service delivery schedules. Manage competing training demands across multiple programmes, identifying risks early and working proactively to resolve them. Provide go‑live support, including floor‑walking and drop‑ins, to help staff embed learning, build confidence and transition into business‑as‑usual support.

Quality and Leadership
Evaluate training effectiveness, continuously update content and share best practice. Line manage a small team of Digital Trainers, allocating work and supporting ongoing development.

The role requires travel across Trust sites; therefore a full UK driving licence is desirable.

Working for our organisation

We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). 

Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD. 

Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve. 

Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident. 

Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s working well together. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See attachment for detailed JD and PS. 

KEY RESULT AREAS:

·       Must be able to conduct presentations and instructional learning with an interactive and engaging approach, relating to business processes and benefits when imparting training content. Have tact, diplomacy and an ability to influence and work with different personality types and learning styles; a good level of communication and interpersonal skills is required.

·       Must have customer service awareness and a commitment to deliver a quality product, which meets customer needs; including those who may have additional learning needs or require workplace adjustments.

·       Evaluate learning content to ensure it meets these needs and implement improvements to enhance the quality of the service.

·       Use reflective practice and undertake peer reviews to share best practice and improve skills.

·       Able to manage own workload, prioritise, plan and organise a broad range of complex activities, including formulating work schedules/training plans in line with project timeframes.

 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to relevant degree level or equivalent relevant specialist experience
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of additional relevant qualifications
  • Evidence of adhoc training courses and personal development

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of Digital Training
  • Experience of Line Management
  • Proficient in M365 products – CoPilot, OneDrive, Sharepoint, MS Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of a range of Digital systems and learning styles
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of testing systems
  • Knowledge of Rio EPR

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareNo smoking policyDisability confident leaderHSJ Best places to workCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Step into health

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Nina Phoenix
Job title
Chief Nursing and AHP Information Officer
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07710572025
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