Education Manager

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Education Manager will utilise specialist knowledge to support the Workforce and Education Programme to:

• Lead the planning and delivery of the programme, including the identification of key milestones, deliverables, and measurable benefits, ensuring alignment with the National ACCEND framework where applicable.
• Oversee the project management of the flagship Greater Manchester Cancer Conference, working collaboratively with the Senior Leadership Team.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to support the delivery of the GM Workforce and Education strategy, as well as the Cancer Academy blueprint, ensuring all efforts are consistent with National ACCEND standards.
• Implement and manage education activities in response to strategic planning guidance, incorporating ACCEND principles to guide curriculum and training initiatives.
• Advocate for workforce and education transformation, integrating these themes into all GM Cancer projects and the broader GM Cancer strategy, and organising events and workshops as appropriate.
• Engage with GM Cancer Pathway boards to ensure that workforce and education transformation is a central consideration in all pathway developments.
• Build and maintain links with national and regional workforce and education groups to promote the GM Cancer Academy and align it with the ACCEND framework.
• Promote education offerings that support alignment and inform education strategies across care settings, providers, and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).
• Effectively communicate complex information and issues to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, ensuring clarity and understanding.
• Takes ownership of the Cancer Academy website user database, enlisting the assistance of the Education Engagement Officer where necessary to produce meaningful information and data.

Leadership and expertise

• Leading workshops and discussions to develop educational initiatives aligned with its standards To support the implementation of the ACCEND framework across the workforce.
• Act as a subject matter expert in workforce and education, providing strategic guidance and expertise across the GM Cancer Academy and pathway boards.
• Expand the ePortfolio, collaborating closely with the practice educator to ensure integration with ACCEND and other national frameworks.
• Lead the development of pre-registration curriculum with HEIs, ensuring cancer education components are embedded and consistent with ACCEND guidelines.
• Champion workforce and education transformation across Greater Manchester and East Cheshire, coordinating responses to national and regional developments.
• Influence senior clinical and managerial stakeholders to prioritise and integrate workforce and education strategies within their work programmes.
• Stay informed on workforce and education developments within GM Integrated Care and at the national/regional level, disseminating these to the appropriate audience and aligning them with ACCEND.
• Represent the workforce and education sector on cancer pathway boards, ensuring education strategies reflect ACCEND and national priorities.
• Develop partnerships with pharmaceutical companies, ensuring income generation through ABPI-compliant educational modules and activities that support the Cancer Academy's goals.
• Oversee the delivery of third-party donations and grants, ensuring compliance and alignment with strategic education objectives.

Set-up and organisation

• Oversee the preparation of agendas, papers, and action logs, holding members accountable for actions and tracking progress against objectives.
• Foster relationships across Greater Manchester, including with primary, secondary, community, and social care providers, HEIs, and public and patient engagement groups.
• Monitor and manage programme dashboards to evaluate the success and impact of education initiatives

Communication and support

• Become the lead contact for various education workstreams
• Lead the development of innovative proposals for education transformation projects
• Support the Senior Programme Lead for Education in development and delivery of the communications strategy effectively engaging stakeholders.
• Create reports and papers to update relevant boards and programme steering groups on programme developments and to seek approval for recommended action.
• Assist in the planning and delivery of the Greater Manchester Cancer Conference, ensuring the event supports the broader workforce and education strategy.

Data and information

• Keep up to date with research and literature from national and international sources relevant to the cancer workforce and education
• Collate data and literature into concise reports and tools and present to the Senior Programme Lead for Education, making clear recommendations for action
• In conjunction with the Senior Programme Lead for Education, review how education can be quantified to show meaningful impact on the cancer workforce.

Planning and reporting

• Manage programme plans ensuring that this contains clear objectives, tasks and identified leads
• Ensure that the work plan reflects, and contributes towards the delivery of the Cancer Academy strategy / implementation plan,
• Cancer Workforce strategy, and objectives of improved clinical care and patient experience
• Coordinate the reporting of outcome measures so that they can be monitored during the year
• Track progress against these outcome measures and provide progress reports to programme steering groups, the Cancer Academy Programme Board, and Workforce and Education Board when required
• Maintain a risk register for the relevant workstreams, reporting risks and issues to the Programme Lead and relevant boards

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to postgraduate degree level or equivalent or significant experience of working at a similar level

Desirable criteria

• Formal qualification or equivalent experience in teaching, education or project management

Experience

Essential criteria

• Has an understanding of the NHS England ACCEND framework
• Has experience of leadership without direct authority
• Has experience of working in the NHS, Local Authority, voluntary or private sector at a senior level.
• Has experience managing projects or programmes of work within the health and care system
• Has experience managing members of staff
• Has worked with senior clinical colleagues to improve services
• Has led projects / programmes of work in complex and challenging environments
• Has managed and reported on risks and issues
• Has experience in event management / coordination

Desirable criteria

• Has experience leading workforce or education transformation
• Has experience monitoring finances
• Experience of promoting and delivering multi-professional education

Skills

Essential criteria

• Can align education with ACCEND or national standards.
• Can develop educational curriculum at Pre-Registration Level
• Can design multi-modality blended learning packages for the current and future workforce
• Can lead large scale conferences
• Can implement ABPI guidelines when working in partnership with pharmaceutical companies to create education
• Can use Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint software to a high standard
• Can produce concise and insightful written materials for senior stakeholders or a broader audience as appropriate
• Can create and deliver presentations to a broad range of different stakeholders
• Can influence others to develop a shared vision Able to understand complex financial information
• Can analyse very complex information from a wide range of sources where material may be conflicting
• Can use experience to make inferences and act where information is incomplete
• Can develop plans for the short and long term for services that extend across multiple organisations and adjust them as required
• Can monitor progress against plans, escalating risks and issues as appropriate
• Can manage own workload
• Can work to demanding and changing timescales

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Has an understanding of the Cancer Workforce
• Has an understanding of education transformation
• Understands the ACCEND framework
• Knowledge of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• Knowledge of ABPI guidelines

Desirable criteria

• Has an understanding of cancer services in Greater Manchester
• Knowledge of the development and application of competency based frameworks

Values

Essential criteria

• Committed to quality in all that they do
• Values diversity and difference and promotes equality of opportunity
• Committed to working to help clinicians deliver better outcomes for patients
• Committed to patient and carer involvement in the development of health services
• Committed to the use of evidence and clinical consensus to bring about change
• Operates with integrity and openness
• Committed to personal development and supporting others to do the same
• Challenges received wisdom and acceptance of the status quo

Other

Essential criteria

• Work flexibly

The closing date for this post may be extended if there are insufficient applicants or brought forward if there is a high volume of applicants.

We want to ensure that everyone who works at the Christie or uses our services is welcomed, valued and treated with dignity and respect. The Christie values diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for all and fair representation across the organisation at all levels. In support of these commitments, we particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority people and people with disabilities for this post. Appointment will be only on merit.

We are committed to creating a balanced and diverse workforce. As such we welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Together we will foster inclusion and tackle inequity and health inequalities in cancer care.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy

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• Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 186.2KB)
• The Christie Values and Behaviours (PDF, 919.5KB)
• Strategy Brochure (PDF, 1.0MB)
• Trust Membership - Christie Talent (PDF, 23.0KB)
• Travel to The Christie (PDF, 3.8MB)