Job Overview
The Education and Development Directorate (2025) is responsible for delivering education, training, and staff development across Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT), supporting all staff in their roles and contributing to the effective delivery of healthcare services.
This Senior Educator for Management and Leadership is a pivotal cross site role, responsible for supporting the design and delivery of management and leadership education and training.
The successful candidate will be a skilled educator and facilitator who has experience of delivering education to multi-professional NHS staff, both patient and non-patient facing staff and demonstrates a clear understanding of the challenges facing managers and leaders within our system.
They may be a senior educator with teaching expertise of management and leadership theory and practice, or an OD practitioner with current healthcare experience; or a clinical leader with a Level 7 teaching qualification
The post holder will be required to teach both in-person and virtually, across Trust sites and regionally.
This role supports the Trust’s strategic ambition to develop compassionate, inclusive, and effective leaders in line with the new and emerging national Management and Leadership Capability Framework, and associated leadership competencies. The objective is to enable all healthcare managers to access high-quality education, training, coaching, and support in their professional development.
Main duties of the job
Work autonomously to lead, design, develop, and deliver high-quality education and training that supports both patient-facing and non-patient-facing staff.
Work effectively both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team to deliver key individual, team and directorate objectives.
Apply expertise, and innovation to aid the design and delivery of impactful and meaningful training that adds value for staff, teams and managers.
Use research based knowledge to support the development of managers, align education to national guidance, reflecting strategic objectives.
Teach evidence based management and leadership theories and support managers in developing associated skills to support them in their roles, their teams.
Embed current and emerging national guidance on healthcare management and leadership including the new and emerging national Management and Leadership Capability Framework, and associated leadership competencies.
Work collaboratively, engaging with managers and stake-holders , building effective relationships, utilising advanced communication, coaching and influencing skills.
Evaluate and critically analyse the effectiveness of management and leadership education.
Support the Matron for Education, Deputy Director of Education in the delivery of the Trust’s management and leadership training portfolio, and will support on clinical leadership programmes, communication skills training, appraisal training.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for the innovation and design of education and training, managing the coordination and delivery of Trust-wide management and leadership education programmes.
This includes, but is not limited to, communication skills training, appraisal training, and other development initiatives aligned to the national Management and Leadership Framework and its associated competency requirements, The NHS ‘Expectations of Line Managers’, the NHS People Promise and People Plan ,and the new NHS 10 year plan.
These programmes will be delivered to all NHS staff across the organisation, encompassing both patient-facing and non–patient-facing roles.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc (Hons) Degree as a minimum
- PGCE (Lv7) in higher education or equivalent training or education
- Registered Health Care Practitioner NMC / HCPC or qualified OD / CMI / CIPD practitioner
- Advanced Communication Skills Trainer or equivalent relevant experience or working towards trainer status.
- Coaching course / qualification or equivalent.
Desirable criteria
- MSc in Education or equivalent CIPD relevant level qualification
- CMI ( >Level 6) Qualification
- Coaching ILM certification (>level 5)
- Restorative clinical supervision training / qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of delivering compassionate management and leadership education and training
- Experience of delivering inclusive leadership training, specifically with awareness of the EDI agenda
- Education / training design and delivery experience
- Experience of delivery education / training to both patient facing and non patient facing ( non clinical / corporate / operation / support services)
- Recent working in an acute NHS Trust / large healthcare organisation
- Significant experience in a Management and Leadership Role with real life practice experience ( HCPC / NMC / OD)
- Recent experience of mapping and embedding national education guidance and polices and evaluating impact
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with HR teams / People Promise teams / OD teams
- Knowledge, awareness and or experience of operational management within NHS and be able to teach education the subject and share learning re complex healthcare systems
- Experience in designing advanced leadership and communication courses
- Experience of interpreting / analysing staff surveys / data in relation to leadership and management approaches and organizational culture
- Experience of virtual education design and delivery (teaching)
- Experience of supporting staff / training and developing Managers knowledge and skills in supporting staff with Well Being
- Experience of delivering EDI education and training to support compassionate and inclusive leadership approaches
- Experience of facilitating action learning sets
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of relevant local and national management related to the policies and procedures regarding managing staff / teams (HR, recruitment / sickness etc ) to support delivery of management / leadership education
- Knowledge of the new national NHS England Management and Leadership Coe and Framework
- Knowledge of Managing performance issues and effective performance and capability conversations
- Knowledge of appraisals, and how to develop skills based Appraisal Training
- Understands clinical, operational and strategic management
- Ability to establish strong working collaborative relationships
- Ability to design, prepare, deliver / facilitate and evaluate innovative teaching resources, education materials and activities.
- Proficient teaching and facilitation skills
- Influencing, negotiation and conflict resolution skills
- Ability to prioritise work with excellent time management with ability to work to deadlines - completer / finisher
- Report writing and ability to prepare presentations for senior meetings.
- Digitally Literate Well-developed IT skills (e.g. Microsoft office package, email systems) and competent in use of One Drive / SharePoint and Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, MS Teams
Desirable criteria
- TEL knowledge / skills re designing e-learning
- Knowledge of Online Learning Platforms (OLPs)
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.
Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
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