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MFT Career Hub Manager | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Job details
Posting date:	27 August 2024
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£37,338 - £44,962 Per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	26 September 2024
Location:	Manchester, M13 9WL
Company:	Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	6595433/

Summary

*Exciting Opportunity: MFT Career Hub Manager at MFT**

We're seeking a passionate Career Hub Manager to join our team at MFT and play a pivotal role in shaping the futures of our staff. This is more than a job; it's a chance to foster a culture where careers flourish and potential is realised.

**The Impact You'll Make:**
By joining us, you'll be integral to the implementation of the Careers Hub Programme, designed to embed a career-centric mindset within MFT. Through strategic apprenticeship offerings and proactive skill gap analysis, you'll enable staff growth and mobility, ensuring a vibrant, forward-thinking workplace.

Ready to make a difference? Apply now and help us transform 'jobs' into lifelong careers. #CareerDevelopment #JobOpportunity #MFTCareers #Coaching #GrowthMindset

**What You'll Do:**
- Offer personalised career advice and one-to-one guidance.
- Deliver our Careers Hub Service, providing comprehensive support from application tips to interview skills.
- Champion our ethos of 'careers not jobs', encouraging continuous professional development.
- Empower managers to engage in meaningful career discussions, guiding staff towards our Careers Hub Service.
- Enhance our Apprenticeship programs, focusing on entry-level roles and partnerships with Training Providers.
- Craft clear career progression pathways within MFT, highlighting opportunities across various specialisms.
- Innovate sourcing strategies for roles through stretch assignments, internal moves, shadowing, and secondments.
- Contribute to reducing turnover by creating learning opportunities and skill development initiatives.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

As the Service operates as a programme / project, tasks will include, but are not limited to:

· Giving professional career coaching advice on a daily basis and communicating effectively to ensure engagement.

· Co-ordinating and supporting of meetings for the Career Pathways Service.

· Ensuring performance against work programmes can be tracked.

· Tracking of project / task activity to ensure activity is undertaken as planned, and progress is identified and highlighted if at risk.

· Supporting the delivery of projects to agreed business requirements.

· Taking responsibility for creating and motivating teams or stakeholders as appropriate.

· Working with stakeholders to ensure projects meet initiation requirements and ensuring project benefits are realised.

· Ensuring effective project communications in a timely and accurate manner.

· Take accountability and ownership of project deliverables and day to day management of project issues within area of responsibility.

· Identifying risk areas and escalate as required.

· Understanding and maintain a sound awareness of the health agenda nationally, and the Greater Manchester agenda and this impact this has on the NHS workforce.

· Delivering Training and workshops.

· Supporting implementation and adherence to the business plan, policies, and procedures

Communication Skills

· Ensuring accurate, clear, and open communication and co-ordination with a range of stakeholders, which will include researching and drafting correspondence, papers and reports.

· Analysing and presenting data across a variety of tasks / outputs using differing methods.

· Maintaining and fostering effective communication within the team and across the Learning and Education function. Implementing local policies and proposing changes when required.

· Maintaining and fostering effective working relationships with all internal and external stakeholders, actively encouraging collaborative working.

· Contributing to the development and delivery of the Service’s communication strategy through highly developed communication skills that gain co-operation and build relationships with stakeholders.

Organisational Skills

· Proactively seek opportunities for the integration and flow of the Service’s activities within the wider organisation, so that intelligence and learning is shared across the team and key stakeholders.

· Effectively manage own workload alongside several activities simultaneously, each at varying stages of completion.

· Liaising with other professionals and agencies to organise Service requirements, responding flexiblytoany changes in requirements effectively and efficiently, therefore having strong and effective time management skills.

· Acting as a central point for work planning / scheduling, whilst ensuring any activity is co-ordinated and has clear ownership from within / across the Service.

· Actively participate in business planning on an annual basis, including a review of what aspects of the role are being done well and identification of any areas for development.

Project Delivery

· Ensuring adherence to internal governance processes to ensure accurate data and consistent interpretation. There will also be a requirement to align this with information governance policies and data protection legislation, including the reporting of any breaches.

· Responsibility for organising key project meetings, engagement, and workshop sessions, booking venues, sending invites, taking minutes etc. related to projects of work being undertaken.

· Analysing and interpreting data and accurately record outcomes of evaluations / reviews using set processes / proformas. Use bespoke databases to accurately record activity / data as appropriate and within agreedtimeframes. Then use the product of this analysis to aid service development and make associated changes or amendments to practices.

· Supporting project activity within the wider Learning and Education Department as required.

· Co-ordinating and supporting auditing of projects and initiatives. Carry out any audits associated with own area of work as required.

· Contributing to ensuring there are processes in place for sharing learning and outcomes.

· Maintaining, reviewing and developing information management systems, contributing to the development of an integrated approach to project management and tracking of delivery taking responsibility for project file management using robust version control.

· Co-ordinating the scheduling of reviews across the Service, working closely with the Service Manager to ensure effective co-ordination of individual programmes of work.

· Planning, scheduling, and monitoring relevant workstreams in accordance with the agreed priorities of the Service to agreed deadlines and review and adjustment when factors or priorities change.

Digital Skills

· Regularly use computer software to produce reports, documents, andcharts.

· Conducting web based and desktop publications research as required within project activities.

· Supporting the update of online content to ensure accuracy and availability of relevant information.

Personal / Professional Requirements

· Helping support and organise inductions for new team members, including introductory meetings, software access and processes around project development and delivery.

· Participating in planning and objective setting to understand how role and objectives fit into the broader organisational context.

· Positively and effectively project the Trusts values, philosophy, activity and outcomes with all levels and disciplines of staff.

· Paying close attention to detail and robust use of administration systems, delivering against objectives, achieving quality outcomes, prioritising own workload, and working to tightdeadlines.

This advert closes on Tuesday 10 Sep 2024

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