Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to work within the North East and Yorkshire Regional Workforce Transformation and Education (WTE) Team in NHS England. This is a dynamic and fast-paced role which is key in the delivery of the retention programme within international recruitment.
The post holder will lead on project(s) supporting the regional delivery of a safe, sustainable, and expanded Nursing, Midwifery, and AHP workforce. Specifically, the support of the international recruitment and retention programme across the North East and Yorkshire region, with an expanded portfolio to share and spread the methodology to all regions within England.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will have a current Nursing, Midwifery, or AHP registration, or a HR background; together with experience and understanding of international recruitment and/or retention initiatives. The post holder will be required to provide proactive project management and leadership support as part of the WTE team, to ensure that programmes of work they are responsible for are planned and successfully delivered. They will need to have a track record of supporting the delivery of successful programmes of work and change.
In addition to working closely with NHSE regional and national teams, the successful candidate will be expected to work and communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders including local systems and provider organisations.
Working both as a part of a team and independently, they will be able to demonstrate ability to meet deadlines and have an understanding of project management, data, communication, and engagement. Critical to success is an understanding of the health professional workforce agenda.
About us
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visithttps://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you'll usually need to be paid the 'standard' salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the 'going rate' for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Working to support the Regional Nursing, Midwifery and AHP Workforce Lead, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team, in partnership with the regional and national NHSE team, ICB colleagues and providers to support:
- Delivery of key initiatives and programmes of work linked to the Long-Term Workforce Plan and other CNO workforce priorities.
- Enable alignment with the broader professional and clinical agendas and priorities related to safe staffing and the clinical workforce.
- Agree key regional priorities and develop communities of practice/action and Shared Decision-Making Councils ensuring the voice of our workforce is central to support and facilitate development and delivery of programmes.
- Provide leadership to ensure positive experience of international recruits must continue to be made in supporting international colleagues to create strong foundations, feel welcome, build belonging and maximise personal and professional growth.
- Work across all clinical professional groups to identify and support the spread, scale and uptake of positive practices that challenge cultural systemic and retention issues.Actively engage with and promote a culture of research and evidenced based practice, developing networks and systems across the region linked to StayAndThrive.
- Provide professional leadership across acute, primary care and community services, including the Community Nursing Programme and General Practice nursing to support the integration of internationally educated staff.
- Support enactment of policy change contributing to international retention through engagement of those with lived experience.
- Provide professional leadership in the delivery of the CNO equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) strategic objectives whilst supporting the improvement of cultural competence.
- Working with analytics and workforce insights team at Place, System, Regional and Nationally to understand information e.g. WRES, Staff Survey leading to change.
- Provide expert professional leadership and be able to respond dynamically to emerging professional issues where regional leadership is required, liaising with professional regulators, Arms Length Bodies, Department of Health and Social Care as appropriate.
- Working synchronously/asynchronously, digitally and face to face, to connect people to national programme offerings, facilitating cross-regional collaboration.
The post forms a key part of the regional nursing, midwifery and AHP workforce team. The post-holder will provide credible, effective and visible professional leadership at the region area and will make a corporate contribution in achieving implementation of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, CNO / CMiDO / CAHPO professional strategies and the NHS Constitution.Delivering corporate responsibilities and deputising for the Regional Nursing, Midwifery and AHP Workforce Lead, where directed, across the whole of their portfolio. Working collaboratively, as part of the clinical directorates within the sub- regional team and locality areas, supporting the delivery of key objectives and strategic goals.
As a team, we pride ourselves in the relentless pursuit of excellence in the quality of healthcare delivery, with patient safety, patient and staff experience, health, and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do. If you have the values, skills, and energy to be part of our team, we would love to hear from you. We are committed to supporting the next generation of clinical leaders and in addition to the portfolio of work, the successful candidate will be offered a bespoke leadership development opportunity to support the next steps of their career.
We would encourage all applicants interested in this opportunity to have an informal discussion about the opportunity. Please contact Victoria Bagshaw - Regional Nursing, Midwifery and AHP Workforce Lead (North East and Yorkshire) Victoria.bagshaw1@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
Working to support the Regional Nursing, Midwifery and AHP Workforce Lead, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team, in partnership with the regional and national NHSE team, ICB colleagues and providers to support:
- Delivery of key initiatives and programmes of work linked to the Long-Term Workforce Plan and other CNO workforce priorities.
- Enable alignment with the broader professional and clinical agendas and priorities related to safe staffing and the clinical workforce.
- Agree key regional priorities and develop communities of practice/action and Shared Decision-Making Councils ensuring the voice of our workforce is central to support and facilitate development and delivery of programmes.
- Provide leadership to ensure positive experience of international recruits must continue to be made in supporting international colleagues to create strong foundations, feel welcome, build belonging and maximise personal and professional growth.
- Work across all clinical professional groups to identify and support the spread, scale and uptake of positive practices that challenge cultural systemic and retention issues.Actively engage with and promote a culture of research and evidenced based practice, developing networks and systems across the region linked to StayAndThrive.
- Provide professional leadership across acute, primary care and community services, including the Community Nursing Programme and General Practice nursing to support the integration of internationally educated staff.
- Support enactment of policy change contributing to international retention through engagement of those with lived experience.
- Provide professional leadership in the delivery of the CNO equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) strategic objectives whilst supporting the improvement of cultural competence.
- Working with analytics and workforce insights team at Place, System, Regional and Nationally to understand information e.g. WRES, Staff Survey leading to change.
- Provide expert professional leadership and be able to respond dynamically to emerging professional issues where regional leadership is required, liaising with professional regulators, Arms Length Bodies, Department of Health and Social Care as appropriate.
- Working synchronously/asynchronously, digitally and face to face, to connect people to national programme offerings, facilitating cross-regional collaboration.
The post forms a key part of the regional nursing, midwifery and AHP workforce team. The post-holder will provide credible, effective and visible professional leadership at the region area and will make a corporate contribution in achieving implementation of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, CNO / CMiDO / CAHPO professional strategies and the NHS Constitution.Delivering corporate responsibilities and deputising for the Regional Nursing, Midwifery and AHP Workforce Lead, where directed, across the whole of their portfolio. Working collaboratively, as part of the clinical directorates within the sub- regional team and locality areas, supporting the delivery of key objectives and strategic goals.
As a team, we pride ourselves in the relentless pursuit of excellence in the quality of healthcare delivery, with patient safety, patient and staff experience, health, and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do. If you have the values, skills, and energy to be part of our team, we would love to hear from you. We are committed to supporting the next generation of clinical leaders and in addition to the portfolio of work, the successful candidate will be offered a bespoke leadership development opportunity to support the next steps of their career.
We would encourage all applicants interested in this opportunity to have an informal discussion about the opportunity. Please contact Victoria Bagshaw - Regional Nursing, Midwifery and AHP Workforce Lead (North East and Yorkshire) Victoria.bagshaw1@nhs.net
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered with NMC or HCPC with a broad level of relevant clinical experience.
- Educated to masters degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a PCT/ICB or regional level in specialist area.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
- Evidence of continuing professional development in specialist area
Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to degree level equivalent
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations
Skills
Essential
- Experience and/or understanding of the Health Economy
- Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice in their specialist field
- Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate problems before they arise.
Desirable
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts.
- Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of planning and delivering short, medium and long-term programmes and projects and services on time.
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
Desirable
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
- Interpreting national policy for implementation.
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public and involving where appropriate to do so.
- Consistently puts clinicians at the heart of decision making
- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Uses evidence to make improvements, seeks out innovation
- Actively develops themselves and others
- Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda.
- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.
- Self-awareness in teams of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness.
Other
Essential
- Team working skills.
- Self-motivated.
- Ability to move between details and the bigger picture.
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.
- Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered with NMC or HCPC with a broad level of relevant clinical experience.
- Educated to masters degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a PCT/ICB or regional level in specialist area.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
- Evidence of continuing professional development in specialist area
Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to degree level equivalent
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations
Skills
Essential
- Experience and/or understanding of the Health Economy
- Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice in their specialist field
- Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate problems before they arise.
Desirable
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts.
- Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of planning and delivering short, medium and long-term programmes and projects and services on time.
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
Desirable
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
- Interpreting national policy for implementation.
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public and involving where appropriate to do so.
- Consistently puts clinicians at the heart of decision making
- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Uses evidence to make improvements, seeks out innovation
- Actively develops themselves and others
- Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda.
- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.
- Self-awareness in teams of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness.
Other
Essential
- Team working skills.
- Self-motivated.
- Ability to move between details and the bigger picture.
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.
- Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop.
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).
