Head of Internal Digital Learning and Knowledge Systems
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Head of Internal Digital Learning and Knowledge Systems
£62785
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Upper Elmers End, Bromley
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 1 week ago, 20 Apr | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 95cad20a2253419eac3c185cb211923b
Full Job Description
- Contribute to the strategic leadership of the department
- Support the procurement, implementation, development, administration, and maintenance of effective systems for the delivery and management of digital learning and knowledge within the Trust and for eligible external users, including:
- Lead a strategic approach to digital learning including how the Trust interprets developments from NHS England and other key stakeholders
- Provide strategic leadership in supporting the Training Business Manager to provide first level helpdesk support (Zen Desk) to staff from around the Trust, ensuring queries are answered promptly and accurately.
- Be a source of advice and expertise in the identification of training needs and the design, commissioning, delivery and evaluation of digital courses, interventions, and programmes
- Support strategic leadership to the scoping, implementation, maintenance, and management of mandatory and statutory training requirements in the Trust, identifying new and modified requirements and ensuring they are correctly assigned to the relevant staff, with learning outcomes appropriately met.
- Monitor and evaluate provision, providing quality reports in accordance with the relevant Quality Improvement frameworks.
- Provide advice/expertise in education and development by interpreting new practice/policy requirements and lead on the development of learning pathways to support NICE guidance and emerging new evidence.
- Provide strategic leadership to the library, ensuring service delivery meets HEE requirements, and effectively supports Trust staff and stakeholders with their research and knowledge needs.
- Provide expert support and guidance to the library, ensuring it is promoted within the Trust and supported to grow and develop in its service provision
- Liaise closely with stakeholders of all levels across the Trust, building effective relationships that support the delivery of educational requirements.
- Manage links with LKS, representing the Trust in relevant committees and working parties
- Work with Workforce Information to ensure the seamless transfer of user data, including training completions from other Trusts, between ESR and LEAP (and LEAP and ESR)
- Work with Trust People and OD, and Education leads to ensure that annual staff survey results are fed into and reflected in the education strategy and approach
- Work with Trust People and OD leads to ensure that annual appriasal results and personal development plans are fed into and reflected in the education strategy and approach
- Contribute to the strategic Equalities agenda, ensuring all education and development activity promotes development in diversity
- Monitor and evaluate digital provision, providing quality reports in accordance with relevant quality assurance frameworks, eg Library Quality and Improvement Outcomes Framework
- Manage key budgets to ensure financial control and the delivery of value for money for the Trust.
- Work with the Director and Maudsley Learning to identify areas within education where income generation can be achieved
- Work with the Director with identifying and delivering annual cost improvement programmes in line with annual targets
- Effectively develop staff in the digital learning and library teams to ensure that all staff are managed and developed appropriately to deliver against key objectives.
- Deputise for the Director as required.
- Maintain own professional practice
- Undertake any other duties as directed.
A Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
o Integrated learning management system
o Support systems including the LEAP Helpdesk
o Hardware and software for creating and delivering high quality digital learning resources
o Integration of the above systems into other platforms, including ESR (Employee Staff Records) and PowerBI
The Head of Internal Digital Learning has a key strategic role in the delivery of learning and development across the Trust, with particular emphasis on the areas of learning platforms and learning systems, digital learning production, library services and mandatory training. At its heart, this role exists to deliver systems and processes that improve the quality of learning and development across the Trust to ensure staff are equipped with the right skills to deliver safe patient care.
As a senior member of the Trust's education team, this role provides an exciting opportunity for an experienced digital learning manager to play a key role in designing and overseeing provision of e-learning training programmes across the organisation.
The postholder will work closely with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure Trust staff receive the high-quality training they require to complete their jobs; they will manage the provision of mandatory training online and production workflows and oversee learning platforms and the provision of digital learning, library and knowledge services.
They will bring a combination of technical understanding, strategic thinking, detail-focus, and excellent leadership skills. Working with other members of the team, they will help to deliver a vision for improving people's lives through mental health education.
About Maudsley Learning:
We are an innovative workforce development team within the Trust, part of one of the world's most renowned mental healthcare organisations. Our mission is to improve people's lives through the highest quality mental health and wellbeing education.
We design and deliver training programmes and education services to meet the continuing professional development needs of individuals in the healthcare workforce, and to colleagues in social services, policing, schools and the private sector. Building positive relationships with other organisations is supremely important to us, as we aim to spread good practice around supporting mental health and wellbeing.
We deliver high quality learning experiences in both traditional and innovative educational modalities thanks to our expertise and agility. Our access to a range of subject matter expertise is second to none via the global centres of excellence in the Trust and our university partners, the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London.
About Education and Development
Now sitting within the Maudsley Learning team, the Education and Development department delivers training within the Trust, focusing not only on mandatory and statutory training requirements, but also on CPD and Apprenticeship provision. We have recently won 'Corporate Team of the Year' within the Trust.