Associate Director of Education, Workforce and Quality

The position is a 12-month secondment to become the Associate Director of Education, Workforce and Quality at Alder Hey. You will report directly to the Chief Nursing, AHP and Experience Officer. With professional accountability to the Directors of Nursing and Allied Health Professionals (AHPs).
We are seeking to appoint someone who is eager to advance their career and welcomes the opportunity to take on broader responsibilities. We are looking for applicants who are calm under pressure, engaging, analytical and able to be creative in their approach to problem solving.
The Associate Director of Workforce, Education and Quality has strategic and management responsibility for the ongoing development and sustainability of the Trust's quality programme and the workforce and education strategy for Nursing and AHPs.
This role presents a great opportunity for a senior healthcare leader to have real positive impact in developing the workforce and assuring the quality of services we provide to children and young people.
As this is an initial 12 month secondment applicants must have the support of their manager to apply., The post holder working with the Chief Nurse and Directors of Nursing and AHPs will have significant Trust wide responsibility and will be accountable for the strategic, operational and budgetary management of the quality programme and education and workforce agendas
The post holder will undertake a full portfolio of responsibilities as agreed and delegated by the Chief Nursing officer and will be responsible and accountable for providing comprehensive and strong professional leadership, guidance advice, support and direction in relation to Trust wide quality to all health care professionals and workforce and Education across nursing and AHP professions
The post holder will be responsible for developing and implementing Quality Improvement Strategies across the organisation, promoting a culture of compassionate health care.
Develop and implement an outcome-focused strategic annual quality assurance, workforce and education strategy across the Trust with high visibility at Executive level to ensure improvement is achieved in line with the strategic objectives
Provide direct management and professional accountability for nursing and AHP workforce and education leads , workforce redesign, recruitment, training and development, performance, grievance and discipline. Directing and leading their work to provide quality monitoring and quality outcomes, working closely with Divisional Medical, Nursing and AHP leads to ensure high quality care across the Trust., We reserve the right to close vacancies without notice when we have received a sufficient number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
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Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development. We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.
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Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients' homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site., As one of Europe's biggest and busiest children's hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children's medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world's leaders in children's healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children's specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.
We know that a children's hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.

We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We're also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
+ Great flexible working opportunities
+ Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
+ Generous annual leave and pension scheme
+ Extensive staff health and well-being programmes