Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust Hiring for Leadership and Talent Lead Job at Maidstone, England Full Time

Do you enjoy inspiring people and watching them develop? Do you love designing and delivering learning and development? Do you have a flare for creative and engaging design? If so, we want to hear from you….

Working with leaders across the Trust, you will deliver activity that improves the services we provide and supports our commitment to nurturing and developing our people; ensuring learning is agile and accessible to all and that we continue to grow a sustainable workforce through robust talent management processes and accompanying development programmes.

Your role is to provide a first-class portfolio of Learning and Development activities that provide our colleagues with the knowledge, skills and behaviours in our CARE Values and our Leaders’ and Managers’ Behaviour Framework. This includes induction, workforce development and leadership and management development.

A key element of this role is to increase management capacity and capability through reviewing, designing, implementing and facilitating leadership and management development, as part of the Leadership Academy.

You’ll be responsible for supporting the delivery of the People Strategy to approx. 5000 KCHFT employees. You will design and deliver learning and development interventions, with the support of the wider Talent and Development Team, focusing on leadership and management development.

You’ll facilitate leadership development initiatives primarily via MS Teams and occasionally face to face. This role includes oversight of induction and workforce learning and development, You will be responsible for the operational management of the Learning and Development Specialist and Officer and will be responsible for providing L&D expertise to support and develop the wider Education and Development Team. You will be expected to deputise for the Head of Talent and Development when appropriate.

One of the largest community NHS trusts in the UK, KCHFT are rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC. We’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of care to patients and deliver excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our valuesCompassionateAspirationalResponsiveExcellent

We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, which leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. So, all our colleagues have equal access to career opportunities.

We’ve signed up to be a real UK living wage employer. From 1 April 2021, the minimum salary we’ll pay is £9.90 per hour (excluding apprentices). The real Living Wage is the only UK wage rate voluntarily paid by 7,000+ UK businesses who believe their staff deserve a fair wage. Committing to the real UK Living Wage is one way we’re delivering our pledge to be the best employer

Flexibility is another way we do this. In the NHS, we’re reminded every day how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement without having to sacrifice time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

Looking for professional development? We can support that too! Ourcareer pathwayswill help you achieve your aspirations

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

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All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate. Interviews are due to take place virtually on the 31st October.

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