Leadership and Management Skills Trainer

This is an exciting and influential role in the field of leadership and management skills training. Reporting jointly to the Maguire People Skills Educational team and the Organisational Development & Engagement Specialist in the OD team, this role focuses on developing leadership & management talent within The Christie. This is an 18-month proof of concept role which will be reviewed and potentially extended.

Leadership & management skills are crucial to developing effective organisations, a positive inclusive culture, and both patient and staff well-being. The Maguire People Skills Team 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 Skills Trainer will lead the design, delivery, commissioning, signposting and evaluation of the leadership and management training 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 People Skills Team, the individual 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.

We're looking for someone with excellent teaching, facilitation, and organisational skills who can manage a range of leadership and management programmes of education aimed at all levels of staff in The Christie

You should be experienced and competent in planning, designing and delivering training using a variety of teaching approaches, both face to face, virtually, blended and in a e-format. We're particularly looking for candidates who 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 supporting our people and patient care, and 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 work autonomously, deliver to deadline under pressure, maintain professional boundaries, manage budgets, be flexible to meet the needs of the workforce, and be a compassionate and supportive colleague to others in the team.

You'll be joining the team at an exciting time. Several new leadership and management interventions are in-design phase or just about to commence so you'll have an opportunity to shape our offer and make a positive difference.

We support the frontline of cancer care and you will directly impact on those who deliver it and the effectiveness of our organisation, bringing our Trust values and behaviours to life.

Flexible and hybrid working is supported in the team and questions about this are welcomed. 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.