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About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Widening Participation Facilitator - North Tyneside and Digital
Closed for applications on: 1-Oct-2024 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 1-Oct-2024 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- The Cobalt Business Park
- Town
- Tyne and wear
- Postcode
- NE27 0QJ
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- Employability, Careers
- Interview date
- 10/10/2024
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
The Widening Participation Facilitator will provide and support employability opportunities to attract and retain our current and future workforce by creating and implementing a range of Widening Participation projects to support our workforce strategy, corporate social responsibility commitments and our organisational community promise.
The post holder will facilitate and implement Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation trust’s plan to deliver meaningful engagement to education and the communities we serve to raise aspirations, improve career awareness, and promotion of the range of careers and routes into employment which benefits our communities, the Trusts and partner organisations
The post holder will develop technology enhanced widening participation offer to improve engagement and accessibility through the provision and co-ordination of efficient and effective programmes, activities and projects to support our strategy and aspirations and to contribute providing high-quality digitally enabled widening participation initiatives.
It is essential that the post holder role models compassionate and inclusive leadership by engaging, enabling and empowering others; using coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement; and facilitating team working and collaboration across organisational boundaries.
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· To engage with the education and community landscape across North Tyneside to promote employment and training opportunities in the NHS and health and social care employers.
· To develop and promote opportunities to widen access to careers and employment, including apprenticeships, Work Experience, undergraduate internships, graduate jobs, pre-employment learning programmes and provide information, advice and guidance relevant to raising aspirations across North Tyneside
· To design, develop and implement high quality digital content and resources across our widening participation portfolio.
· To facilitate efficient and effective widening participation activities to support aspirations for high engagement and promotion of careers and employment opportunities. In doing so, the post holder will role model desirable values and leadership behaviours, whilst supporting and responding to the needs of organisations and the wider community.
· Using feedback to improve content and continually explore new opportunities to further enhance the digital widening participation offering of the trust
· By providing a high-quality service to ensure the organisation meets a range of key performance indicators relating to widening participation activities, promotion of a range of entry and progression pathways into NHS careers including educational and vocational routes and Corporate Social Responsibility indicators.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To facilitate and implement the organisations plan to deliver meaningful engagement across education and the communities we serve across North Tyneside to raise aspirations, improve career awareness, and promotion of the range of careers and routes into employment which benefits our communities, the Trusts and partner organisations.
To improve the use of digital platforms to improve engagement and accessibility of our widening participation initiatives.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person specification
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving license and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivering high quality IAG
- Experience of working with and supporting vulnerable and or marginalized communities
- Experience developing digital content to engage and create an impact such as animation, virtual tours etc
- Experience delivering employability skills/support in education or community setting
- Understanding of apprenticeships standards/framework
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
Qualifications, experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Degree level qualification in an appropriate subject such as education, careers, IT or demonstrable equivalent experience
- Knowledge of Health & Social Care widening participation engagement priorities.
- A sound knowledge of planning and delivering a range of widening participation activities to young people and adults.
- A sound knowledge of stakeholder engagement demonstrating the ability to communicate across our diverse communities
- Experience of co-ordinating and the delivery of a wide range of widening access and participation programmes and projects to promote apprenticeships, internships and careers, with partners, including those external to the organisation.
- Proven track record in delivery of training, evaluating and adapting a wide range of programmes including ability to engage and adapt associated learning to meet the needs of learners.
- Experience of working with individuals in and out of education
- Experience developing and delivering digitally enhanced interventions to improve engagement and/or impact
- High quality facilitation skills and experience whether leading small groups, large events, conferences or workshops.
- Understanding of working in an NHS environment.
- Understanding of the geography and demography including the barriers of the communities we serve.
Desirable criteria
- Coaching/mentoring qualification
- IAG qualification
- IT enabled services qualification such as web designing or software development
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rochelle Gonsalves
- Job title
- Senior Practitioner - Widening participation
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Contact me for further information or informal chat.
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