Education Manager

Job responsibilities

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Education Manager will utilise specialist knowledge to support the Workforce and Education Programme to:

• Lead the planning and delivery of the programme, including the identification of key milestones, deliverables, and measurable benefits, ensuring alignment with the National ACCEND framework where applicable.
• Oversee the project management of the flagship Greater Manchester Cancer Conference, working collaboratively with the Senior Leadership Team.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to support the delivery of the GM Workforce and Education strategy, as well as the Cancer Academy blueprint, ensuring all efforts are consistent with National ACCEND standards.
• Implement and manage education activities in response to strategic planning guidance, incorporating ACCEND principles to guide curriculum and training initiatives.
• Advocate for workforce and education transformation, integrating these themes into all GM Cancer projects and the broader GM Cancer strategy, and organising events and workshops as appropriate.
• Engage with GM Cancer Pathway boards to ensure that workforce and education transformation is a central consideration in all pathway developments.
• Build and maintain links with national and regional workforce and education groups to promote the GM Cancer Academy and align it with the ACCEND framework.
• Promote education offerings that support alignment and inform education strategies across care settings, providers, and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).
• Effectively communicate complex information and issues to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, ensuring clarity and understanding.
• Takes ownership of the Cancer Academy website user database, enlisting the assistance of the Education Engagement Officer where necessary to produce meaningful information and data.

Leadership and expertise

• Leading workshops and discussions to develop educational initiatives aligned with its standards To support the implementation of the ACCEND framework across the workforce.
• Act as a subject matter expert in workforce and education, providing strategic guidance and expertise across the GM Cancer Academy and pathway boards.
• Expand the ePortfolio, collaborating closely with the practice educator to ensure integration with ACCEND and other national frameworks.
• Lead the development of pre-registration curriculum with HEIs, ensuring cancer education components are embedded and consistent with ACCEND guidelines.
• Champion workforce and education transformation across Greater Manchester and East Cheshire, coordinating responses to national and regional developments.
• Influence senior clinical and managerial stakeholders to prioritise and integrate workforce and education strategies within their work programmes.
• Stay informed on workforce and education developments within GM Integrated Care and at the national/regional level, disseminating these to the appropriate audience and aligning them with ACCEND.
• Represent the workforce and education sector on cancer pathway boards, ensuring education strategies reflect ACCEND and national priorities.
• Develop partnerships with pharmaceutical companies, ensuring income generation through ABPI-compliant educational modules and activities that support the Cancer Academy's goals.
• Oversee the delivery of third-party donations and grants, ensuring compliance and alignment with strategic education objectives.

Set-up and organisation

• Oversee the preparation of agendas, papers, and action logs, holding members accountable for actions and tracking progress against objectives.
• Foster relationships across Greater Manchester, including with primary, secondary, community, and social care providers, HEIs, and public and patient engagement groups.
• Monitor and manage programme dashboards to evaluate the success and impact of education initiatives

Communication and support

• Become the lead contact for various education workstreams
• Lead the development of innovative proposals for education transformation projects
• Support the Senior Programme Lead for Education in development and delivery of the communications strategy effectively engaging stakeholders.
• Create reports and papers to update relevant boards and programme steering groups on programme developments and to seek approval for recommended action.
• Assist in the planning and delivery of the Greater Manchester Cancer Conference, ensuring the event supports the broader workforce and education strategy.

Data and information

• Keep up to date with research and literature from national and international sources relevant to the cancer workforce and education
• Collate data and literature into concise reports and tools and present to the Senior Programme Lead for Education, making clear recommendations for action
• In conjunction with the Senior Programme Lead for Education, review how education can be quantified to show meaningful impact on the cancer workforce.

Planning and reporting

• Manage programme plans ensuring that this contains clear objectives, tasks and identified leads
• Ensure that the work plan reflects, and contributes towards the delivery of the Cancer Academy strategy / implementation plan,
• Cancer Workforce strategy, and objectives of improved clinical care and patient experience
• Coordinate the reporting of outcome measures so that they can be monitored during the year
• Track progress against these outcome measures and provide progress reports to programme steering groups, the Cancer AcademyProgramme Board, and Workforce and Education Board when required
• Maintain a risk register for the relevant workstreams, reporting risks and issues to the Programme Lead and relevant boards

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to postgraduate degree level or equivalent or significant experience of working at a similar level

Desirable

• Formal qualification or equivalent experience in teaching, education or project management

Experience

Essential

• Has an understanding of the NHS England ACCEND framework
• Has experience of leadership without direct authority
• Has experience of working in the NHS, Local Authority, voluntary or private sector at a senior level.
• Has experience managing projects or programmes of work within the health and care system
• Has experience managing members of staff
• Has worked with senior clinical colleagues to improve services
• Has led projects / programmes of work in complex and challenging environments
• Has managed and reported on risks and issues
• Has experience in event management / coordination

Desirable

• Has experience leading workforce or education transformation
• Has experience monitoring finances
• Experience of promoting and delivering multi-professional education

Skills

Essential

• Can align education with ACCEND or national standards.
• Can develop educational curriculum at Pre-Registration Level
• Can design multi-modality blended learning packages for the current and future workforce
• Can lead large scale conferences
• Can implement ABPI guidelines when working in partnership with pharmaceutical companies to create education
• Can use Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint software to a high standard
• Can produce concise and insightful written materials for senior stakeholders or a broader audience as appropriate
• Can create and deliver presentations to a broad range of different stakeholders
• Can influence others to develop a shared vision Able to understand complex financial information
• Can analyse very complex information from a wide range of sources where material may be conflicting
• Can use experience to make inferences and act where information is incomplete
• Can develop plans for the short and long term for services that extend across multiple organisations and adjust them as required
• Can monitor progress against plans, escalating risks and issues as appropriate
• Can manage own workload
• Can work to demanding and changing timescales

Knowledge

Essential

• Has an understanding of the Cancer Workforce
• Has an understanding of education transformation
• Understands the ACCEND framework
• Knowledge of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• Knowledge of ABPI guidelines

Desirable

• Has an understanding of cancer services in Greater Manchester
• Knowledge of the development and application of competency based frameworks

Values

Essential

• Committed to quality in all that they do
• Values diversity and difference and promotes equality of opportunity
• Committed to working to help clinicians deliver better outcomes for patients
• Committed to patient and carer involvement in the development of health services
• Committed to the use of evidence and clinical consensus to bring about change
• Operates with integrity and openness
• Committed to personal development and supporting others to do the same
• Challenges received wisdom and acceptance of the status quo

Other

Essential

• Work flexibly

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.

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