Education Lead (Social Care Academy)

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented individual to play an active role in supporting the development of a social care academy for Greater Manchester, which is a key priority of the Adult Social Care Transformation Programme.  The academy model supports the growth and retention of the current and future social work and social care workforce, developing and retaining skills, and enhancing recruitment and retention in a new era of integrated care to ultimately improve the lives of those using health and social care services.

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The Education Lead for the Care Academy will support the delivery of the Greater Manchester Care Academy, working closely with social care providers and training partners to inform, coordinate and influence innovative educational offerings. 

The post holder will be expected to lead on specific projects within this programme and support the relevant Director as necessary.

The Education Lead will support the Care Academy Programme Manager to:

• Review training and development priorities for the adult social care workforce across all settings
• Develop policies and frameworks to determine the design, offer and delivery of training and education programmes for the non-registered social care workforce, to all localities across Greater Manchester, and work with partners across health and social care to ensure sustainability of future offers
• Develop, in collaboration with training providers, modules/packages/web-based teachings on priority areas for training and development, including to support new integrated roles
• Work with colleagues across health and social care to support the development of integrated career pathways to expand routes into the profession and clear routes for progression.

·      Promote coaching and mentoring proposals for delivery across adult social care

Working for our organisation

Health and social care reform is at the heart of our region's reform and growth agenda; healthy and independent people play a crucial part in enabling us to achieve our ambition for a growing and sustainable Greater Manchester in the future. To achieve this, we know we need radical change at scale in how health and social care is provided. We work with all ten Local Authorities, NHS organisations across Greater Manchester, social care providers, voluntary and community sector organisations, and national bodies to deliver these positive outcomes. 

 The Adult Social Care Workforce Transformation programme offers an exciting opportunity to put workforce priorities into action to create an integrated workforce that can deliver excellent care and support, through enriched roles, increased aspiration and a common vision of providing first class, person-centred care.

 A ground-breaking academy can support the adult social care transformation ambitions for Greater Manchester by building capacity across the sector through securing future talent and upskilling the workforce, driven by market workforce intelligence.  The academy will help to identify the opportunities that can be developed to address social care challenges through upskilling, development of improved and integrated career pathways and workforce innovation, and how this can be done through creative approaches to attracting people into social care careers.