Learning Facilitator

This is a unique and exciting opportunity to join the Workforce Development Team providing stretch, growth and challenge for the successful candidate. Are you a Senior Healthcare Support Worker with substantial experience in the delivery of direct care to patients in the acute setting? Are you looking for a progression within your career? Are you passionate about growing and developing our future Health Care Support Worker workforce? We are seeking an enthusiastic, compassionate and diligent Learning Facilitator, someone who understands that people and values come first. You will motivate colleagues through a shared vision to deliver the highest quality workforce, trained and developed to bring safe and effective care to patients, families and carers engaging with our busy organisation.

Contact Information

Name: Anthony Dawson
Position: Programmes Lead
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Name: Sigourney Slaford
Position: Senior Project Nurse
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Job Summary

2 posts - 1 permanent & 1 secondment until April 2027. This is a unique and exciting opportunity to join the Workforce Development Team providing stretch, growth and challenge for the successful candidate.

Responsibilities

The Workforce Development Team is a multiple award winning team that strives to inspire and shape our health care support worker workforce through role modelling Leeds Way Values and behaviours, delivering high quality educational programmes and providing consistent pastoral support.

The post holder will advocate for and promote an open, inclusive dialogue ensuring psychological safety with compassionate leadership. We continue to showcase and develop the fundamental roles of our health care professionals, celebrating their daily contribution to patient safety and experience.

Why you should join our Team

The Workforce Development Team is a small, but impactful team in the field of Healthcare Support Worker recruitment, education, training and development. We are an ambitious, tenacious and trailblazing team with a commitment to widening participation and employment opportunities into healthcare. This has led to us becoming a multiple, national award winning team, recognised for improving recruitment and retention of unregistered staff across the organisation and becoming a benchmark for excellence in Healthcare Support Worker recruitment, development and retention.

As individuals within the team, we all have lived experience of having worked as Healthcare Support Workers and have developed our respective careers to become educators and nursing or allied health professional registrants. This enables us to bring a considerable wealth of collective knowledge and experience to support and inspire our colleagues including learners and their ward and department based colleagues.

We have a shared commitment to always act with integrity, to embody professionalism and empower each other to achieve success.

The team strives to inspire and shape our Health Care Support Worker workforce through role modelling Leeds Way Values and Behaviours, delivering high quality educational programmes and providing consistent pastoral support to learners and their work based teams.

What you will bring to the role

As a Learning Facilitator, you will bring your extensive Healthcare Support Worker experience into your daily work within the Workforce Development Team. Our learners connect best with us when we share our lived experiences with them and bring learning to life.

Your experience of team working and being responsive in fast paced work will be pivotal in supporting the corporate education team, and clinical service units in recruitment activity, in facilitating education, training and practice development to establish a high standard of education for all unregistered healthcare practitioners and learners on our programmes.

Bringing your experience of leadership as a Senior Healthcare Support Worker, you will support the recruitment cycles and become confident with leading interviews and making sound recruitment decisions.

Using your strong working knowledge of the Care Certificate and the standards within it, you will support organising and delivering practical, simulation and theoretical training programmes, including the New to Care Preparation Programme, the Virtual Pathway for the Care Certificate Programme and our Excellence in You Programme for Senior Healthcare Support workers.

Using your professional experience, you will provide classroom based teaching and professional insights when visiting learners and their line Managers/Mentors/Assessors in practice, to provide advice and guidance on meeting the learning outcomes of their respective programme of learning.

Drawing upon your experience in clinical practice of working as part of a multi professional team, you will support the development of interdisciplinary and cross organisational working to ensure the sharing of good practice and delivery of high quality, effective and efficient safe care in your teaching practice. You will be leading and promoting audit, presenting findings and making suggestions to improve and develop service delivery.

This role requires you to thrive in a challenging and fast paced environment, be comfortable with continual improvement and change management processes.

As an experienced Senior Healthcare Support Worker, you will employ your practical care skills and your skills of compassion, empathy and care to provide practice based support and pastoral support to Healthcare Support Worker learners and their work based Managers/Mentors/Assessors in a variety of acute settings across Leeds Teaching Hospitals.

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are: patient centred, collaborative, fair, accountable, empowered.

All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values. We're committed to recruiting exceptional people to deliver outstanding services across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and helping every colleague reach their full potential. We're looking for a compassionate, inclusive, and collaborative leader who shares our values and can build strong partnerships. We warmly invite applications from people from a variety of backgrounds and sectors, and are especially keen to hear from individuals from a minority ethnic background. We're dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and has a true sense of belonging, as we work together to deliver the best in healthcare to the people of Leeds and beyond.

Qualifications

• Completed the Care Certificate
• Minimum of Level 3 Health & Social Care or equivalent qualification

Experience

• Experience of working as senior healthcare assistant within an acute/social care setting.

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.

Sponsorship Eligibility

To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

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