Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our apprenticeship team as the Apprentice Team Leader. If you believe in maximising potential and supporting people to be the best they can be then this role may be for you. The role is responsible for assisting the Apprentice Manager to support services to develop a future workforce through the development of education programmes for new roles and existing roles via apprenticeships and supporting preemployment through careers and recruitment events. They will enable delivery of a professional, client-centred learning and development consultancy service to enable new ways of working to meet the needs of the organisation. In conjunction with the Learning Associates and Quality Groups the post holder will participate in the development and evaluation of a suite of apprentice standards for clinical and nonclinical staff in accordance with the delivery of the Trust strategy, vision, values and desired culture to ensure that the Trust is equipped to provide a world class patient experience and a great place to work for its staff.
Main duties of the job
- Build and maintain positive relationships with a broad range of stakeholders to identify, diagnose and plan to address future workforce needs through a clear strategic framework and pragmatic, tailored support to services to enable performance improvement and skills development.
- Ensure all processes are brought together to enable employees to follow career pathways through external apprenticeship provision.
- Ensure communication channels and reporting mechanisms are in place for the recording and reporting of external apprenticeship activity.
- Use a range of evaluation methods to monitor external provider apprenticeship delivery, to ensure they meet the relevant quality standards.
- Contribute to the Trust's Learning and development action plan, to improve overall organisational performance and effectiveness through new role and apprentice development and re-skilling or up-skilling staff where appropriate
- Manage and prioritise own work to meet required deadlines and objectives
- Liaise with the Organisation Development team, identify clinical leadership apprenticeship development programmes to increase capability across the organisation
- Manage the student nursing associate facilitators
- To deputise for the Apprentice Manager when required
About us
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
- Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
- Access to Continued Professional Development
- Involvement in improvement and research activities
- Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
- Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Support the Apprentice Manager in the effective delivery and implementation of the Trust apprenticeship strategy
- Effective implementation of national apprenticeship policies and initiatives into effective local action, by supporting the long term strategies and action plans across the Trust, through planning and delivering apprentice cohorts to support necessary organisational and service developments and enhancing the skills of staff
- Provide expert advice to managers and staff about the availability and content of suitable formal programmes to support skills and knowledge development for staff in new and existing roles.
- Provide expert advice about the requirements of the training programmes including academic work, workplace experience and assessment activity.
- Provides support, advice and guidance for managers, learning associates and teams to identify roles that are suitable for apprenticeship programmes and develop processes to support managers to advertise new posts as apprenticeship opportunities.
- Support managers to identify suitable apprenticeship programmes and ensure that the provision is value for money, quality and meets learning outcomes.
- Ensure effective use is made of the Trust levy and maintain compliance with apprentice funding rules
- Maintain spreadsheets accurately of apprentices and levy spend
- Ensure contracts are negotiated and in place with all apprenticeship providers and that regular reviews are held to ensure contractual commitments are met.
- Communicates service-related information to senior managers, staff, and external agencies using effective influencing and negotiation skills
- Undertake workforce planning in liaison with Apprentice Manager to maximise use of centralised grow our own budget to support filling hard to fill vacancies.
- Support the Apprentice Manager in maintaining apprenticeship activity on the Digital Apprenticeship System (DAS), meeting external reporting requirements.
- Contribute to trailblazers for new apprentice standards
- Works collaboratively with partner organisations including: - other NHS Trusts, Local Authorities, NHS Commissioning organisations, NHS England , Salsbury Apprentice Framework, relevant organisations in the Integrated Care System, private sector organisations and community based and/or voluntary organisationsin order to develop a consolidated and shared approach
- Work collaboratively with external learning and development providers including Higher Education Institutes (HEIs), colleges, external trainers etc to commission input, develop apprentice and widening participation solutions then review and evaluate learning provision
- Follow and maintain processes and governance structures that will ensure proper management of the apprenticeship provision and will create a lasting programme for the Trust
- Support and contribute to the process for recruiting, placing and supporting Trust wide apprenticeship programmes such as Student Nursing Associates.
- Disseminate the options for undertaking functional skills training to employees and managers to support the Trust to meet future health care staffing needs.
- Support monitoring of the uptake, progress and completion of functional skills programmes
- Ensure a range of functional skills programmes available to staff across the Trust footprint
- Support the Health and wellbeing college and patient engagement lead to identify pathways into employment for people with lived experience in Pennine Care.
- Designs, delivers and evaluates learning and development activity, tailoring content and delivery style to the needs of the audience, using face to face and virtual technology and other methods.
- Provide expert facilitation skills to improve individual and team skills and competencies and to enable people in the organisation to deliver the organisations objectives
- Develop and design competency and knowledge assessment tools where appropriate to ensure that learning outcomes are measured and there are robust processes for embedding learning into practice
- Work in partnership with the workforce and OD team and/or other providers on required development outcomes, evaluation methods and measures.
- Plans, designs and undertakes structured processes of organisational wide L&D audit and evaluation, to provide evidence and feedback of L&D effectiveness and return on investment to report to the People and Workforce Steering Group and Committee.
- Designs, delivers and evaluates apprentice activity and demonstrates return on investment from development activities to the organisation
- Manage the Student Nurse Associate (SNA) Facilitators and Apprentice Facilitator ensuring the SNA cohorts are successfully placed, meet their learning requirements and are integrated into service provision.
- Ensure that apprenticeship programmes are relevant, delivered effectively and are monitored to ensure that learners are safe, skilled and supported in their new roles.
- Supports the effective delivery and implementation of allocated Learning and Development initiatives through multi-functional teams and ensures stakeholder input and reporting is included
- Supports other staff delivering training across the organisation by providing expert advice and support in the identification of learning needs, development of interventions, delivery methods and evaluation best practice
- Regularly undertakes research and development in relation to Education & Development including horizon scanning of upcoming good practice, benchmarking with other organisations/industries to add value to our internal L&D services, triangulation of data to provide meaningful analysis of organisational issues and regularly maintains own continuous professional development
- Ensure that learning and development programmes are advertised and promoted to staff and that record keeping is maintained.
- Ensure that the requirements for monitoring and usage of funding allocated to apprenticeships by NHS England are managed and reported on uploading requirements into external and internal systems.
- Works collaboratively and supportively with the network of internal Learning and Development associates, co-working on projects and interventions in a partnership way. This may include co-facilitation of learning and development interventions with team members within the Workforce and OD team and others from the wider organisation
- Contribute and support events to celebrate and promote the achievements of learners.
- Support the development, implementation and review of apprenticeship and functional skills training policies
- Monitor and maintain audit trail of student issues and complaints and support development of actions plans to address issues.
- Work in partnership with HR colleagues to ensure contracts of employment are appropriate for apprentices
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Support the Apprentice Manager in the effective delivery and implementation of the Trust apprenticeship strategy
- Effective implementation of national apprenticeship policies and initiatives into effective local action, by supporting the long term strategies and action plans across the Trust, through planning and delivering apprentice cohorts to support necessary organisational and service developments and enhancing the skills of staff
- Provide expert advice to managers and staff about the availability and content of suitable formal programmes to support skills and knowledge development for staff in new and existing roles.
- Provide expert advice about the requirements of the training programmes including academic work, workplace experience and assessment activity.
- Provides support, advice and guidance for managers, learning associates and teams to identify roles that are suitable for apprenticeship programmes and develop processes to support managers to advertise new posts as apprenticeship opportunities.
- Support managers to identify suitable apprenticeship programmes and ensure that the provision is value for money, quality and meets learning outcomes.
- Ensure effective use is made of the Trust levy and maintain compliance with apprentice funding rules
- Maintain spreadsheets accurately of apprentices and levy spend
- Ensure contracts are negotiated and in place with all apprenticeship providers and that regular reviews are held to ensure contractual commitments are met.
- Communicates service-related information to senior managers, staff, and external agencies using effective influencing and negotiation skills
- Undertake workforce planning in liaison with Apprentice Manager to maximise use of centralised grow our own budget to support filling hard to fill vacancies.
- Support the Apprentice Manager in maintaining apprenticeship activity on the Digital Apprenticeship System (DAS), meeting external reporting requirements.
- Contribute to trailblazers for new apprentice standards
- Works collaboratively with partner organisations including: - other NHS Trusts, Local Authorities, NHS Commissioning organisations, NHS England , Salsbury Apprentice Framework, relevant organisations in the Integrated Care System, private sector organisations and community based and/or voluntary organisationsin order to develop a consolidated and shared approach
- Work collaboratively with external learning and development providers including Higher Education Institutes (HEIs), colleges, external trainers etc to commission input, develop apprentice and widening participation solutions then review and evaluate learning provision
- Follow and maintain processes and governance structures that will ensure proper management of the apprenticeship provision and will create a lasting programme for the Trust
- Support and contribute to the process for recruiting, placing and supporting Trust wide apprenticeship programmes such as Student Nursing Associates.
- Disseminate the options for undertaking functional skills training to employees and managers to support the Trust to meet future health care staffing needs.
- Support monitoring of the uptake, progress and completion of functional skills programmes
- Ensure a range of functional skills programmes available to staff across the Trust footprint
- Support the Health and wellbeing college and patient engagement lead to identify pathways into employment for people with lived experience in Pennine Care.
- Designs, delivers and evaluates learning and development activity, tailoring content and delivery style to the needs of the audience, using face to face and virtual technology and other methods.
- Provide expert facilitation skills to improve individual and team skills and competencies and to enable people in the organisation to deliver the organisations objectives
- Develop and design competency and knowledge assessment tools where appropriate to ensure that learning outcomes are measured and there are robust processes for embedding learning into practice
- Work in partnership with the workforce and OD team and/or other providers on required development outcomes, evaluation methods and measures.
- Plans, designs and undertakes structured processes of organisational wide L&D audit and evaluation, to provide evidence and feedback of L&D effectiveness and return on investment to report to the People and Workforce Steering Group and Committee.
- Designs, delivers and evaluates apprentice activity and demonstrates return on investment from development activities to the organisation
- Manage the Student Nurse Associate (SNA) Facilitators and Apprentice Facilitator ensuring the SNA cohorts are successfully placed, meet their learning requirements and are integrated into service provision.
- Ensure that apprenticeship programmes are relevant, delivered effectively and are monitored to ensure that learners are safe, skilled and supported in their new roles.
- Supports the effective delivery and implementation of allocated Learning and Development initiatives through multi-functional teams and ensures stakeholder input and reporting is included
- Supports other staff delivering training across the organisation by providing expert advice and support in the identification of learning needs, development of interventions, delivery methods and evaluation best practice
- Regularly undertakes research and development in relation to Education & Development including horizon scanning of upcoming good practice, benchmarking with other organisations/industries to add value to our internal L&D services, triangulation of data to provide meaningful analysis of organisational issues and regularly maintains own continuous professional development
- Ensure that learning and development programmes are advertised and promoted to staff and that record keeping is maintained.
- Ensure that the requirements for monitoring and usage of funding allocated to apprenticeships by NHS England are managed and reported on uploading requirements into external and internal systems.
- Works collaboratively and supportively with the network of internal Learning and Development associates, co-working on projects and interventions in a partnership way. This may include co-facilitation of learning and development interventions with team members within the Workforce and OD team and others from the wider organisation
- Contribute and support events to celebrate and promote the achievements of learners.
- Support the development, implementation and review of apprenticeship and functional skills training policies
- Monitor and maintain audit trail of student issues and complaints and support development of actions plans to address issues.
- Work in partnership with HR colleagues to ensure contracts of employment are appropriate for apprentices
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or Equivalent
- Appropriate Healthcare qualification e.g. Registered Nurse, AHP
- Appropriate qualification in L&D e.g. CIPD, CertEd, PGCE, Train the Trainer
Desirable
- Coaching or mentoring qualification
- Leadership development qualification e.g Certificate in Management
- Evidence of continuing professional development to Masters level or willingness to complete
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working in education, learning and development in a complex environment.
- Demonstrable experience of design, delivery and evaluation of training for multi-professional groups across a wide range of subjects
- Experience of effectively supporting change agendas and delivering a flexible and responsive learning and development offer
- Working with external agencies and consultants to determine learning needs, design interventions, and deliver education
- Competency based learning, and designing assessments of learning
- Work as a team member
- Working independently and managing own workload
- Managing working/ project groups
Desirable
- Developing and monitoring service level agreements (SLAs) with internal and external providers
- Experience of income generation activities
Knowledge
Essential
- Up to date knowledge of learning and development techniques and best practice methodology
- Broad understanding of the NHS LTP in relation to the education and development agenda within the NHS
- Knowledge of Performance and Development Review processes and assessment of individuals knowledge and skills
- kills o Knowledge of apprentice standards relevant to NHS and requirements for EPAs
Desirable
- Principles and theories of change management and leadership
- Substantial knowledge of the apprenticeship levy funding rules and employer rules
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to influence and persuade, adapting personal style to meet different situations
- Excellent presentation/ facilitation skills to different audiences
- Good organisational and problem solving skills.
Desirable
- Project management skills and ability to see projects through to conclusion
- Experience of negotiating contracts and service level agreements
- Demonstrable experience of performance management
Work Related Circumstances
Essential
- Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
- Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or Equivalent
- Appropriate Healthcare qualification e.g. Registered Nurse, AHP
- Appropriate qualification in L&D e.g. CIPD, CertEd, PGCE, Train the Trainer
Desirable
- Coaching or mentoring qualification
- Leadership development qualification e.g Certificate in Management
- Evidence of continuing professional development to Masters level or willingness to complete
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working in education, learning and development in a complex environment.
- Demonstrable experience of design, delivery and evaluation of training for multi-professional groups across a wide range of subjects
- Experience of effectively supporting change agendas and delivering a flexible and responsive learning and development offer
- Working with external agencies and consultants to determine learning needs, design interventions, and deliver education
- Competency based learning, and designing assessments of learning
- Work as a team member
- Working independently and managing own workload
- Managing working/ project groups
Desirable
- Developing and monitoring service level agreements (SLAs) with internal and external providers
- Experience of income generation activities
Knowledge
Essential
- Up to date knowledge of learning and development techniques and best practice methodology
- Broad understanding of the NHS LTP in relation to the education and development agenda within the NHS
- Knowledge of Performance and Development Review processes and assessment of individuals knowledge and skills
- kills o Knowledge of apprentice standards relevant to NHS and requirements for EPAs
Desirable
- Principles and theories of change management and leadership
- Substantial knowledge of the apprenticeship levy funding rules and employer rules
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to influence and persuade, adapting personal style to meet different situations
- Excellent presentation/ facilitation skills to different audiences
- Good organisational and problem solving skills.
Desirable
- Project management skills and ability to see projects through to conclusion
- Experience of negotiating contracts and service level agreements
- Demonstrable experience of performance management
Work Related Circumstances
Essential
- Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
- Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
