Job summary
Design cutting-edge training that transforms an outstanding NHS Trust.
It's an exciting opportunity to bring your expertise, join us at the beginning of our journey and develop through a challenging, complex project. 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 qualification and use this knowledge to help you design and deliver training materials. . And, leading the 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.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & 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 28,000 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level or equivalent experience (relevant to role).
- Training qualification or equivalent experience (relevant to role).
Desirable
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
- On-going evidence of personal development
Knowledge
Essential
- oKnowledge of clinical, administrative and/and operational workflows and processes within a hospital environment
- oKnowledge of learning styles and theories
- oAdvanced knowledge of all Microsoft Office packages especially Excel
Desirable
- oKnowledge of Data Protection Act, GDPR & Information Governance
- oKnowledge of HealthCare I.T. systems,
Training
Essential
- oExperience of delivering training to large/small groups or one to one.
- oExperience of process mapping and change management.
- oExperience of presenting complex systems to individuals
- oExperience of dealing with a variety of people at different levels
Desirable
- oEpic or other clinical system accreditation or equivalent experience.
- oExperience of working in the NHS/Public Sector.
- oExperience of delivering training in Healthcare systems
- oExperience of writing and preparing training materials.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- oGood organisational and planning skills
- oAbility to engage with and successfully convey highly complex information and concepts to audiences at all levels in the organisation
- oGood presentation skills
- oAbility to lead and use own initiative in developing working practices for self and other team members
- oAbility to operate consistently at high level summary as well as detail levels
- oAbility to listen and interpret users' needs and to inspire confidence
Desirable
- oExperience of training staff on technical systems
Attributes
Essential
- oSelf-motivation and the ability to work under pressure and deliver to tight timescales
- oAbility to prioritise and respond to planned and unplanned situations on a daily basis
- oDiplomacy and integrity and appreciation of conflicting priorities
- oTeam player & ability to work in a matrix environment
Desirable
- oAn ability to influence others in a positive manner with the confidence to deal with different priorities and differing views in order to achieve change /improvement
Others
Essential
- oAbility to travel to all sites within the MFT Trust, other reference sites and off-site training venues which might be overseas.
- oProvide support to end-users through regular meetings and byparticipating in a 24/7 and/or on call rotaduring Go-live or system upgrades as may be necessary
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree level or equivalent experience (relevant to role).
- Training qualification or equivalent experience (relevant to role).
Desirable
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
- On-going evidence of personal development
Knowledge
Essential
- oKnowledge of clinical, administrative and/and operational workflows and processes within a hospital environment
- oKnowledge of learning styles and theories
- oAdvanced knowledge of all Microsoft Office packages especially Excel
Desirable
- oKnowledge of Data Protection Act, GDPR & Information Governance
- oKnowledge of HealthCare I.T. systems,
Training
Essential
- oExperience of delivering training to large/small groups or one to one.
- oExperience of process mapping and change management.
- oExperience of presenting complex systems to individuals
- oExperience of dealing with a variety of people at different levels
Desirable
- oEpic or other clinical system accreditation or equivalent experience.
- oExperience of working in the NHS/Public Sector.
- oExperience of delivering training in Healthcare systems
- oExperience of writing and preparing training materials.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- oGood organisational and planning skills
- oAbility to engage with and successfully convey highly complex information and concepts to audiences at all levels in the organisation
- oGood presentation skills
- oAbility to lead and use own initiative in developing working practices for self and other team members
- oAbility to operate consistently at high level summary as well as detail levels
- oAbility to listen and interpret users' needs and to inspire confidence
Desirable
- oExperience of training staff on technical systems
Attributes
Essential
- oSelf-motivation and the ability to work under pressure and deliver to tight timescales
- oAbility to prioritise and respond to planned and unplanned situations on a daily basis
- oDiplomacy and integrity and appreciation of conflicting priorities
- oTeam player & ability to work in a matrix environment
Desirable
- oAn ability to influence others in a positive manner with the confidence to deal with different priorities and differing views in order to achieve change /improvement
Others
Essential
- oAbility to travel to all sites within the MFT Trust, other reference sites and off-site training venues which might be overseas.
- oProvide support to end-users through regular meetings and byparticipating in a 24/7 and/or on call rotaduring Go-live or system upgrades as may be necessary
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).
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).
