Job overview

Design cutting-edge training that transforms an outstanding NHS Trust.

 It’s an exciting opportunity to bring your expertise, With your help, we’ll build on our leading initiatives and transform our services for the benefit of patients and staff alike.

As an Application Developer & Trainer, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering meaningful, useful training, working closely with clinical, administrative and managerial colleagues to ensure it supports both clinical and operational needs. 

Joining us, you’ll work to gain Epic Principle Trainer qualification  and use this knowledge to help you design and deliver training materials and  design and ongoing maintenance of the training environment, including the patient scenarios, workflows and example data used, you’ll also be involved in testing the system to ensure that its safe, usable and secure.  

You'll  be supporting staff across the Trust to successfully complete the workflow-based training.

Main duties of the job

Required skills and experience

We’re looking for demonstrable experience of delivering training to large or small groups, or one-to-one, and a good knowledge of different learning styles and theories. With the ability to convey highly complex information and concepts, and inspire confidence in audiences at all levels, you should be able to listen to and interpret their needs. You’ll also need knowledge of clinical, administrative and operational workflows and processes within a hospital environment.

You’ll bring leadership qualities, with the ability to manage and motivate team members and take the initiative in developing working practices. On a personal level, you’re a self-motivated team player with excellent personal skills and the ability to work in a matrix environment. With a ‘can-do’ attitude and customer/patient-focused approach, you prioritise tasks effectively.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of  over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together