# Band 8a Lead Educator-Healthcare Science > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-8a-lead-educator-healthcare-science/0ff6f469-4b99-41ad-b59f-b4f249ef813b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-8a-lead-educator-healthcare-science/0ff6f469-4b99-41ad-b59f-b4f249ef813b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Birmingham - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Healthcare support worker - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 to £64,750 a year - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full-time, Flexible working Full-time, Flexible working - **Closing date:** 2026-06-21T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-26T13:31:46.553Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C0020-26-0728?employerCode=C0020 - **Application URL:** https://uhb.tal.net/vx/candidate/apply/14967?instant=apply - **Employer website:** https://www.uhb.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job summary We have an exciting new opportunity for an inspiring and forward-thinking individual to join our dynamic and growing Healthcare Science Education Team. This permanent position would be ideally suited to a Healthcare Scientist with previous experience as an educator, who wants to advance their career in a busy and supportive workplace, whilst supporting others to develop. Based in Education, the post holder will work closely with service leads, specialty experts, operational leads, workforce leads and executive leads to ensure a collaborative approach to high quality education provision and support. The post holder will coordinate NHSE education planning, training delivery and education governance, and will provide effective leadership for the wider education delivery team for speciality education, aligning priorities with Trust objectives, ensuring the Trust has a safe and sustainable HCS workforce and setting the strategic vision for education within HCS. ### Main duties of the job Lead and support the wider HCS Education Team, ensuring high-quality educational support is embedded throughout the Trust: *Coordination of education, training and practice-development activity across Healthcare Science. *Maintenance of accurate training and competency records and production/presentation of education compliance reports, supporting learners to achieve their learning outcomes. *Collaboration with Trust colleagues, universities and other external education providers to identify workforce training needs, supporting design and delivery of programmes that reflect local, regional, and national standards, helping shape the ongoing development of the UHB HCS workforce. *Development and delivery of an annual HCS education portfolio. *Development and delivery of a comprehensive induction programme for all new HCS learners-both registered and unregistered-ensuring learners are safely, effectively, and confidently welcomed into the Trust. *Development and delivery of an annual HCS education portfolio. *Development and delivery of a comprehensive induction programme for all new HCS learners-both registered and unregistered-ensuring learners are safely, effectively and confidently welcomed into the Trust. *Delivery of specific education, where appropriate. ### About us University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role. ### Details - Date posted: 26 May 2026 - Pay scheme: Agenda for change - Band: Band 8a - Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year - Contract: Permanent - Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working - Reference number: 304-1097177 - Job locations: Trustwide, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 2TH, United Kingdom ### Job responsibilities *Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description* ## Job Details We have an exciting new opportunity for an inspiring and forward-thinking individual to join our dynamic and growing Healthcare Science Education Team. This permanent position would be ideally suited to a Healthcare Scientist with previous experience as an educator, who wants to advance their career in a busy and supportive workplace, whilst supporting others to develop. Based in Education, the post holder will work closely with service leads, specialty experts, operational leads, workforce leads and executive leads to ensure a collaborative approach to high quality education provision and support. The post holder will coordinate NHSE education planning, training delivery and education governance, and will provide effective leadership for the wider education delivery team for speciality education, aligning priorities with Trust objectives, ensuring the Trust has a safe and sustainable HCS workforce and setting the strategic vision for education within HCS. ## Job Description Lead and support the wider HCS Education Team, ensuring high-quality educational support is embedded throughout the Trust: *Coordination of education, training and practice-development activity across Healthcare Science. *Maintenance of accurate training and competency records and production/presentation of education compliance reports, supporting learners to achieve their learning outcomes. *Collaboration with Trust colleagues, universities and other external education providers to identify workforce training needs, supporting design and delivery of programmes that reflect local, regional, and national standards, helping shape the ongoing development of the UHB HCS workforce. *Development and delivery of an annual HCS education portfolio. *Development and delivery of a comprehensive induction programme for all new HCS learners-both registered and unregistered-ensuring learners are safely, effectively, and confidently welcomed into the Trust. *Development and delivery of an annual HCS education portfolio. *Development and delivery of a comprehensive induction programme for all new HCS learners-both registered and unregistered-ensuring learners are safely, effectively and confidently welcomed into the Trust. *Delivery of specific education, where appropriate. ## Responsibilities *Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description* ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - *Experience of managing change without supervision - *Utilise well developed facilitation skills to effectively chair multi-disciplinary and cross-speciality meetings - *Lead and facilitate projects utilising core project and people leadership and management skills; tracking progress and initiating actions for sustained appropriate implementation - *Experience of leading and managing a team - *Knowledge and understanding of a range of issues across the NHS and NHS agenda - *Knowledge and understanding of UHB recruitment and retention strategies to inform and amend local strategy - *Significant post registration experience working within an NHS or complex health care environment with multidisciplinary teams, including the supervision / education of junior staff - *Demonstrable experience of managing pay and non- pay resources and service development - *Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of ongoing personal development/ competence **Desirable** - *Experience of implementing a project that crosses organisational boundaries both personally and as facilitator - *Knowledge and understanding of local and national body responsibilities with regards to recruitment and substantive staff human resource responsibilities ### Qualifications **Essential** - *Registered healthcare scientist (HCPC/AHCS/IPEM etc) or evidence of the ability to register with a recognised HCS regulatory body - *Professional knowledge acquired through post graduate degree or specialist training, supplemented by short courses to Masters level equivalent **Desirable** - *Education Qualification/ PGCE or equivalent or willing to work towards - *Post-graduate Leadership training/ development course - *Project management qualification or relevant experience ### Additional Criteria **Essential** - *Ability to work autonomously - *Able to think strategically and translate the overall vision for local service delivery by collaboration and partnership - *Ability to manage a diverse and challenging workload - *Ability to organise workload and changing priorities - *Able to recognise, have creative foresight of potential barriers and risks, and mitigate actions; highlighting to appropriate stakeholders - *Model a collaborative and influencing style of working, negotiating with others to achieve the best outcomes, whilst occasionally working in a highly political and sensitive environment - *Ability to work collaboratively with peers and senior colleagues across a variety of settings within and outside the NHS - *Ability to analyse complex issues and data where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple resources - *To support the identification and sharing of best practice to support service improvements - *Support future talent management, working with line managers, educators and staff for aspiring leaders - *Ability to use highly developed negotiation, facilitation and persuasion skills to lead on/ participate in and facilitate change within and across speciality and professional boundaries - *Ability to build and motivate teams - *Capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decisions without supervision - *Ability to present information that demonstrates clinical credibility and collaboration - *Must be adaptable, flexible and able to cope with uncertainty and change - *Commitment to continuing professional development of self and others - *To maintain awareness of up to date professional and clinical practice issues and ensure that national policy is reflected in practice - *Excellent standard of written and verbal communication skills - *Experience and enthusiasm for supporting, facilitating and developing educational programmes and teaching/ assessing and supervising others - *Evidence of flexible and innovative approach to service delivery and development - *Be a role model and actively promote equal opportunities, inclusion during the recruitment, development and retention of staff - *The ability to promote excellence in professional practice, by setting and leading improvement in workforce and education - *Promote, facilitate and actively enable a culture of transparency, openness and learning in quality, safety and clinical assurance ## Documents - [Band 8a JD PS.pdf (PDF, 541 KB)](document:2936268) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.