Leadership and Management Skills Facilitator | The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in Manchester is seeking a Leadership and Management Facilitator. The role involves planning and delivering innovative training to enhance leadership skills within the organisation. The successful candidate will have substantial experience in leadership education and the ability to engage and motivate staff, promoting a culture of inclusion and support. This position offers an opportunity to impact patient care positively.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience as a leadership and management educator.
• Ability to engage, motivate, and influence others.
• Competence in planning, designing, and delivering training.

Responsibilities

• Plan, develop, deliver, and evaluate training events.
• Deliver training both face to face and online.
• Provide expert support to identify development pathways.

Skills

Training delivery

Leadership development

Communication skills

Innovative facilitation

Job description

Overview

This is an exciting and influential role in the field of leadership and management skills facilitation. Reporting jointly to the Maguire Communication and Leadership Academy and the Organisational Development and Engagement Specialist in the OD team, this role focuses on developing leadership and management talent within The Christie. This post will run until September 2026.

This is a proof of concept role which will be reviewed and potentially extended. Leadership and management skills are crucial to developing effective organisations, a positive inclusive culture, and both patient and staff well-being.

The Maguire Communication and Leadership Academy mission is to support health and social care staff in every role and at every stage of their career, developing compassionate, effective skills in communication, coaching, leadership and management. Working across both the OD and Education teams, the Leadership and Management Facilitator will design, deliver, commission, signpost and evaluate the leadership and management portfolio for the Trust.

They will support the roll out of the leadership and management development frameworks, and the inclusive culture leadership initiatives in the Trust.

Additionally, as part of the Maguire Communication and Leadership Skills Academy, the successful candidate will offer highly specialised, expert knowledge and skills to support the development, facilitation, and evaluation of our full range of gold standard leadership, management and communication skills programmes.

You should be experienced and competent in planning, designing and delivering training using a variety of facilitation and teaching approaches, both face to face, virtually, blended and in a e-format. We’re particularly looking for candidates who are innovative, push boundaries, and can create a learning culture that translates the trusts values and principles into the busy workplace. Additionally, you will be able to appraise external courses for impact and outcome and will have experience in guiding people to identify the right learning for themselves.

Suitable candidates will have substantial experience as a leadership and management educator, will demonstrate a passion for interactive, game changing facilitation and teaching approaches and enjoy supporting our people and patient care. They will understand and promote the concepts of equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging and engagement in all activity undertaken. You will have the ability to work with engage, motivate, influence, and enthuse others, showing a passion for behaviour changing education and an empathy with the pressures of busy NHS professionals. You will be able to evidence that you can push boundaries, innovate, work autonomously, deliver to deadline under pressure, whilst maintaining professional boundaries, managing budgets, being sufficiently flexible to meet the needs of the workforce. You will be a compassionate and supportive colleague to others in the team.

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.

We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

You will be a part of the Maguire Communication and Leadership Skills Academy, the successful candidate will offer highly specialised, expert knowledge and skills to support the development, facilitation, and evaluation of our full range of gold standard leadership, management and communication skills programmes.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Take responsibility for the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of a range of training events and services to meet leadership and management training needs of The Trust and other Maguire client groups internally and externally.
2. Deliver training in a variety of settings, including face to face and on-line, using specialist facilitation and group development skills adapting learning to groups needs and requirements.
3. Deliver specialist knowledge to a range of colleagues which support the strategic development of high-quality leadership and management skills – informed by national policy, Trust cultural reviews and contemporary research in both management and leadership practice and educational delivery.
4. Provide expert support to workforce colleagues, to proactively identify development pathways, and specialist training needs and opportunities for all Christie staff.

This advert closes on Friday 26 Sep 2025