Talent for Care Lead

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Wigan; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust seeks a leader for the Global Majority NMAHP workforce. This role involves developing clinical practice in line with Trust strategies and ensuring effective education and training. Ideal candidates will have strong communication skills, a degree-level qualification, and extensive clinical experience. Join a proud organization committed to improving patient care and supporting staff development.

Qualifications

• Minimum degree-level qualification with up-to-date professional registration.
• Experience supervising healthcare students in practice settings.
• Broad clinical experience and skills in teaching and assessment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Global Majority NMAHP workforce in developing patient-centered practices.
• Work with teams to implement initiatives enhancing care quality.
• Develop and maintain competency frameworks for the workforce.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Excellent organisational and administrative skills

Ability to work under pressure

Ability to supervise staff

Education

Professional qualification to a minimum of degree level

Specialist knowledge of Education in Practice at Masters level or willingness to undertake

Formal coaching qualification

Evidence of having completed formal leadership training

Tools

Microsoft Office

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Posted:

18.06.2025

Expiry Date:

02.08.2025

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Job Description:

Choose Well - Choose WWL

Job overview

To provide corporate professional leadership and support to the Global Majority NMAHP workforce and to develop clinical practice in line with the Trust’s Nursing & Midwifery & AHP Strategy.

To co-ordinate the development of professional practice within the Global Majority NMAHP workforce across the Trust to ensure that they have the skills and education to provide safe and effective patient centred care.

In line with the #Stay & Thrive agenda to use their own lived experience and to work with Trust leaders, managers and the Practice Education Team to welcome new internationally educated registered practitioners, to create a sense of belonging, to support career development and to support the professional development of our Global Majority NMAHP workforce to maximise personal and professional growth.

Main duties of the job

• Facilitate Global Majority NMAHP workforce in developing patient centred and innovative practice across the Trust
• Lead on specific professional practice development projects as identified by the Associate Chief Nurse for Workforce & Education
• Work closely with the divisions and corporate teams in the development and implementation of initiatives to enhance staff and patent experience and quality of care
• Ensure that the objectives detailed in the nursing, midwifery AHP strategy are delivered within the Professional Education Team
• Lead in developing, maintaining and implementing competency-based frameworks for the Global Majority NMAHP workforce
• Work with managers and staff to support nurses when a concern about practice or performance is raised and in line with Trust policies and procedures

Working for our organisation

Choose Well – Choose WWL

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Act in accordance with the Codes of ProfessionalConduct, specific to professional registration.
• Work closely with the learning & development department to ensure mandatory training and other training provisions meets the identified professional development needs of our Global Majority NMAHP workforce
• Ensure that systems are developed and maintained to meet the requirements of NMC standards for practicelearning.
• Act as an expert resource to Global Majority NMAHP workforce, Learning Environment Managers, Ward Leaders, Matrons and Directors and Deputy Directors of Nursing, Midwifery & AHPs.
• Represent the Associate Chief Nurse for Workforce & Education and the Deputy Chief Nurse at professional meetings in their absence.
• Contribute to the development of businessplans to develop services and the workforce.
• Work with divisions and service leads across the Trust to identify and address opportunities for shared learning resulting from incidents andcomplaints.
• Maintain effective communication links with Matrons, Learning Environment Managers, Ward Leaders, Specialist Nurses, Clinicians and other divisional and department teams, asappropriate.
• Ensure that the Professional Education Team have live website that is resourced and available for all staff toaccess.
• Identify & develop policies & procedures to support professional practice development as required.
• Contribute in the development of and support in the implementation of the Nursing, Midwifery and AHP strategy.
• Undertake risk assessments & develop actions plans to mitigate risk in relation to professional practice issue as required
• Contribute to the development and implementation of the Recruitment and Retention Pipeline for Nursing

Person specification

Qualifications

• Professional qualification to a minimum of degree level with up-to-date professional registration
• Specialist knowledge of Education in Practice at Masters level or willingness to undertake
• Completed Practice Assessor training / preparation
• Formal coaching qualification
• Evidence of having completed formal leadership training

Experience

• Broad range of post qualifying clinical experience
• Extensive experience of teaching, supervising and assessing healthcare students in the practice setting
• Experience of having worked across professional and organisational boundaries.
• Practical experience of facilitating change
• Experience of staff management/supervision
• Experience of developing and implementing new systems and procedures
• Knowledge of preceptorship process

Skills

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal & Excellent interpersonal skills able to engage and build effective relationships at all levels in stakeholder organisations
• Ability to present to large groups of people
• Excellent organisational and administrative skills & Excellent time management skills
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to work without supervision and use own initiative
• Ability to work flexibly and manage competing priorities with consistently high attention to detail and quality of work
• Ability to work as a member of a team
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with people from a wide range of personal and professional backgrounds
• Adaptable to meet differing learning styles/ preferences
• Ability to write evidence based reports
• Ability to supervise staff on a day to day basis

Knowledge

• Knowledge of different methods/ styles for teaching and learning
• Detailed understanding of a range of regulatory body requirements
• In depth knowledge of Quality Assurance principles and framework
• Microsoft office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access
• Understanding of quality improvement methodology and outcome measurement

Additional

• Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation
• Flexible to work across all Trust sites
• Global Majority Nurse with lived experience