Specialist Practitioner, Widening Participation
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 01 Rhagfyr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £38,682 - £46,580 pro rata per annum |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 31 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Newcastle upon Tyne, NE27 0QJ |
| Cwmni: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7617299/319-7617299JN-HAS |
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A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
This role as Specialist Practitioner for Widening Participation is to coordinate and develop career and vocational opportunities to attract and retain our current and future workforce. They will be expected to create and implement a range of Widening Participation projects supporting education providers across Northumberland and North Tyneside and raising aspirations of the communities we serve.
The post holder will be responsible for the development of efficient and effective programmes, activities and projects to support our organisational Widening Participation strategy and aspirations within our Community Promise and Corporate Social Responsibility agenda.
It is essential that the post holder role models compassionate and inclusive leadership by engaging, enabling, and empowering others; using coaching techniques to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement; and facilitating team working and collaboration across organisational boundaries.
The main duties of this role is to:
• To provide and support the best development for our people.
• To contribute to the formulation, agreement and delivery of HR and people development strategies by providing a high quality service for the organisation.
• To ensure appropriate people development systems and processes are in place to support the organisation, regulatory requirements and development plans.
• To deliver projects and strategies in order to provide a high-quality service and ensure the organisation meets a range of key performance indicators.
• To contribute to the design and delivery of specialist projects and programmes linked to people development strategies and action plans
• To support quality assurance and improvement by ensuring all data collected is accurate and supported on appropriate systems.
• To provide information, advice and guidance to service users linked to People Development needs.
The successful candidate will inspire our current and future workforce, working in collaboration with wider stakeholders to continuously build on our success in promoting and supporting employability and career progression opportunities across the Health and Social Care sector. With support and guidance from the Senior Practitioner for Widening Participation, they will have trust and psychological safety to try new ideas and new ways of working in accordance with local and national guidance.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
The main expectations and responsibilities for the role include:
• Specialist knowledge across work procedures, underpinned by theory.
• Level 6 qualification (e.g. Degree) in an appropriate subject or equivalent portfolio of experience.
• Specialist knowledge in the development and delivery of people development activities, gained through experience in an education, similar environment.
• Skills to project manage the delivery of an innovative and forward-thinking people development activities to support the organisations strategic priorities.
• Skills and experience in leadership and management.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and engage others.
• Holds a valid driving license and is either a car owner or able to use a car for work purposes.
It is also essential that the post holder can:
• Provide and receive complex/highly complex, sensitive or contentious information,
• agreement or co-operation required; Presents complex, sensitive or contentious
• information to large groups.
• Provides and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information where agreement or co-operation are required.
• Presents complex, sensitive or contentious information to large groups.
• Developing networks and partnerships with internal and external groups, to coordinate and deliver a range of people development activities across the organisation.
• Providing and receiving strategic reports as a method of giving assurance, making improvements and developing the service.
• Complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, comparison of a range of options
• Coordinate activities and projects requiring analysis and interpretation. Making judgements or escalating matters as and when required.
This advert closes on Monday 15 Dec 2025
This role as Specialist Practitioner for Widening Participation is to coordinate and develop career and vocational opportunities to attract and retain our current and future workforce. They will be expected to create and implement a range of Widening Participation projects supporting education providers across Northumberland and North Tyneside and raising aspirations of the communities we serve.
The post holder will be responsible for the development of efficient and effective programmes, activities and projects to support our organisational Widening Participation strategy and aspirations within our Community Promise and Corporate Social Responsibility agenda.
It is essential that the post holder role models compassionate and inclusive leadership by engaging, enabling, and empowering others; using coaching techniques to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement; and facilitating team working and collaboration across organisational boundaries.
The main duties of this role is to:
• To provide and support the best development for our people.
• To contribute to the formulation, agreement and delivery of HR and people development strategies by providing a high quality service for the organisation.
• To ensure appropriate people development systems and processes are in place to support the organisation, regulatory requirements and development plans.
• To deliver projects and strategies in order to provide a high-quality service and ensure the organisation meets a range of key performance indicators.
• To contribute to the design and delivery of specialist projects and programmes linked to people development strategies and action plans
• To support quality assurance and improvement by ensuring all data collected is accurate and supported on appropriate systems.
• To provide information, advice and guidance to service users linked to People Development needs.
The successful candidate will inspire our current and future workforce, working in collaboration with wider stakeholders to continuously build on our success in promoting and supporting employability and career progression opportunities across the Health and Social Care sector. With support and guidance from the Senior Practitioner for Widening Participation, they will have trust and psychological safety to try new ideas and new ways of working in accordance with local and national guidance.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
The main expectations and responsibilities for the role include:
• Specialist knowledge across work procedures, underpinned by theory.
• Level 6 qualification (e.g. Degree) in an appropriate subject or equivalent portfolio of experience.
• Specialist knowledge in the development and delivery of people development activities, gained through experience in an education, similar environment.
• Skills to project manage the delivery of an innovative and forward-thinking people development activities to support the organisations strategic priorities.
• Skills and experience in leadership and management.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and engage others.
• Holds a valid driving license and is either a car owner or able to use a car for work purposes.
It is also essential that the post holder can:
• Provide and receive complex/highly complex, sensitive or contentious information,
• agreement or co-operation required; Presents complex, sensitive or contentious
• information to large groups.
• Provides and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information where agreement or co-operation are required.
• Presents complex, sensitive or contentious information to large groups.
• Developing networks and partnerships with internal and external groups, to coordinate and deliver a range of people development activities across the organisation.
• Providing and receiving strategic reports as a method of giving assurance, making improvements and developing the service.
• Complex facts or situations requiring analysis, interpretation, comparison of a range of options
• Coordinate activities and projects requiring analysis and interpretation. Making judgements or escalating matters as and when required.
This advert closes on Monday 15 Dec 2025