Director of Learning and Workforce DevelopmentNHS

Job summary

Are you an experienced senior leader ready to shape the future workforce of Bristol NHS Foundation Trust? As Director of Learning and Workforce Development, you will lead a broad, high-profile portfolio at the heart of our organisation's transformation. You will help create outstanding learning and career opportunities for our people, strengthen workforce capability and support new ways of delivering care. This is an opportunity to influence strategy at executive and system level, build strong partnerships and make a lasting difference to our workforce and the patients we serve.

Main duties of the job

Reporting to the Chief People and Culture Officer, you will develop and implement BFT's future workforce and skills strategy, ensuring we have the capacity and capability needed for the decade ahead. You will lead education, apprenticeships, learning and development, career pathways, workforce transformation and education governance. Working with clinical, operational, system and education partners, you will shape roles, skills and learning pathways that respond to changing patient needs, technological advances and new models of care. You will be a credible and visible leader who can build trust, influence at executive and system level, lead large-scale change and champion inclusion.

Job description

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of the role.

The Director of Learning and Workforce Development will:

• Develop and deliver BFT's future workforce and skills strategy.
• Lead a modern, high-impact learning and workforce development function.
• Provide strategic leadership across education, apprenticeships, learning and development, career pathways, workforce transformation and education governance.
• Work with clinical, operational, system and education partners to shape future roles, skills and learning pathways.
• Support delivery of the NHS 10 Year Plan and BFT's Clinical Strategy by preparing the workforce for changing patient needs, technological advances and new models of care.
• Build trusted relationships, influence at executive and system level and lead large-scale change.
• Promote inclusion and create a culture in which people can learn, grow and thrive.

We are looking for an experienced senior leader with a strong record of delivering strategic learning and workforce development in a large, complex organisation. You will bring exceptional partnership and influencing skills, the credibility to operate at executive and system level and a strong commitment to inclusion.

For an informal discussion, Jenny Lewis, Chief People and Culture Officer, would be delighted to hear from people who match the brief and would like to find out more.

About us

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations,operatingfrom three main sites at Southmead, Bristol citycentreand Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that theSouth Westhas to offer.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit andretaina workforce whichrepresentsthe rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your applicationin order toensurewe'remeeting our pledge.