Head of Education

Job description

Job responsibilities

** For full details of the job description and person specification for this role please refer to the attached job description **

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• - Degree level qualification in education, learning or development.
• - Recognised trainer/ educator with proven track record.
• - Formal HR or L&D qualification, or willing to work towards
• - Evidence of continuing and ongoing personal and professional
• development.

Desirable

• - Management qualification
• - CIPD membership
• - Qualification in health or social care

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• - Lead, manage and maintain service delivery in an environment of regular challenge and change.
• - Knowledge of service specifications and commissioning intentions and the ability to ensure services are delivered in response to these.
• - Strong operational management skills including running systems and processes to monitor delivery of services.
• - Project management skills.
• - Provide a horizon scanning and forward planning function, identifying opportunities arising from national and local policies.
• - Commitment to developing and implementing innovative practice and person-centred care.
• - The ability to manage a complex work programme and competing demands.
• - Excellent communication skills (oral, written and presentational).
• - High level of self-motivation and discipline.
• - Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to deal with paid and voluntary staff, from a variety of backgrounds.
• - Excellent organisational skills and ability to work to deadlines; operate as part of a team; manage through a team or own initiative as the occasion demands.
• - Excellent analytical skills and ability to think and work strategically.
• - Inspiring Leader.
• - Excellent IT skills in word, excel, PowerPoint and outlook, with the ability to share this knowledge to colleagues
• - Experience in delivering education through virtual platforms.
• - Current health sector practice and legislation
• - Knowledge of the hospice movement
• - Budgeting/accounting
• - Service improvement and change
• - Ability to create education and training programmes to meet individual learning styles and engage learners.
• - Knowledge of OD theories
• - Ability to listen to business needs and develop appropriate solutions
• - Ability to manage complex emotionally challenging situations or behaviours in a non confrontational, calm and professional manner
• - Confident presentation and facilitation skills.
• - Strong influencing and communication skills and the ability to use a range of techniques to deliver messages effectively at all levels.
• - Evidence of ability to write reports and internal and external communications.
• - Demonstrates the ability to champion corporate decisions even when unpopular.

Desirable

• - Knowledge of government strategies for Palliative and end of life care
• - Understanding of palliative care and hospice services.
• - Voluntary organisations.
• - Previous experience in Managing a Hospice Team

Experience

Essential

• - Experience in developing education programmes to degree and post graduate level (for individuals or groups).
• - Experience and professional knowledge of specialist palliative care, education and regional and national initiatives affecting the delivery of speciality palliative care.
• - Significant Experience in health based senior management role or equivalent.
• - Leadership and management skills with the ability to be highly organised, innovative, and experience of managing change.
• - Proven workplace experience in designing and delivering training or development programmes Experience of interpreting and delivering data and KPI metrics to use to inform management decision making and corporate performance.
• - Evidence of ability to apply theoretical knowledge of people behaviours in a practical way to deliver business objectives.
• - Evidence of instigating successful evaluation processes to monitor and measure success of training initiatives.
• - Experience of contributing to development and employee engagement policies and/or strategies

Desirable

• - Experience of working within a diverse Organisation environment and with volunteers.
• - Knowledge and experience of working for a charity.
• - Knowledge of Cascade or similar HR software system
• - OD experience

Motivation and Personal Attributes

Essential

• - Compassion and care and ability to understand when to support and when to direct
• - Willingness to be flexible and agile in approach to working hours in order to meet business needs.
• - Diplomatic and sensitive, especially in balancing the needs of the Trust against the needs of an individual
• - Accurate and attention to detail
• - Work under pressure
• - Creative
• - Self-motivated
• - Flexibility
• - Ability to work on own initiative and part of a team
• - Ability to maintain & understand the importance of confidentiality
• - Ability to work confidentially, remain calm under pressure and to confidently challenge and resolve inappropriate behaviours.
• - Acts as a credible role model promoting a professional image for the team and Organisation.
• - Able to demonstrate St Barnabas values and behaviours.
• - Able and willing to travel to other sites.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

St Barnabas Hospice

Address

St. Barnabas Day Hospice

Hawthorn Road

Lincoln

LN2 4QX

Employer's website

https://stbarnabashospice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)