Digital Learning Designer

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen in the West Midlands Cancer Alliance (WMCA) to join this dynamic, high profile, busy team, and support in the delivery of the National Cancer Programme priorities within the NHS Long-Term Plan. As a Digital Learning Designer, you will work as part of a dynamic team that provides support and expertise to help the Integrated Care Systems (ICS's), West Midlands Cancer Alliance and NHS England direct commissioners deliver their plans.  As a Digital learning Designer, you will work with the Senior Project Manager in supporting the implementation of transformation plans. You will support the Senior Project Manager and the wider team to ensure that the projects are planned and managed effectively,  assisting in their successful delivery.

Main duties of the job

• Design, develop and deliver high‑quality digital learning and e‑learning content, working closely with local clinicians and subject matter experts to ensure clinical accuracy and educational effectiveness.
• Lead the end‑to‑end coordination of learning requests, including prioritisation, scheduling and delivery against agreed timescales.
• Develop, implement and maintain standardised request and content templates to support consistent, efficient and scalable content creation.
• Upload, configure and manage learning resources within the learning management system (LMS), ensuring accessibility, version control and quality standards are met.
• Apply a range of digital, multimedia and authoring technologies to create engaging, accessible and learner‑centred educational resources.
• Ensure all digital learning content complies with NHS governance requirements, including accessibility standards, information governance and data protection.
• Monitor learner engagement and performance using learning analytics, producing regular reports to evidence reach, uptake and impact.
• Use evaluation data and stakeholder feedback to support continuous improvement of digital learning provision and learner experience.
• Contribute to delivery of ACCEND and wider cancer workforce plans by enabling scalable, high‑quality digital education that supports upskilling, capability development and service transformation across the cancer workforce.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP

• Under the leadership of the WMCA, take a key role in the implementation of the WMCA Workforce strategy to support the strategic, system-wide development of the research delivery workforce across a broad range of roles, specialties and settings
• Work with experts both locally and nationally to support the delivery of a programme of staff development and learning that will increase capability and promote effective use of the tools and services available through the WMCA infrastructure
• Support regional WMCA and Cancer teams, demonstrating leadership in the design, development and delivery of learning solutions
• Act as an ambassador for the WMCA

BUSINESS PLANNING

• Support annual planning and reporting activities with the provision of workforce development, learning data and expertise
• Propose and inform key innovative opportunities for increasing research delivery workforce capacity and capability across the WMCA

INFORMATION & ADMINISTRATION

• Advise on the use of and implement Information and Learning Technology to support learning, teaching and assessment across the network to align with the WMCA LMS and other relevant platforms
• Support the identification and development of opportunities to use the platform IT infrastructure to provide quality assurance, information about learners’ experience and the profile of the learner population
• Provide day to day management and coordination of regional and, where appropriate, national learning design projects through to delivery and evaluation. This will include the
• evaluation and reporting of any technology related risks to the lead network who commissioned the project
• Support the accurate collection of workforce development data as part of a shared, national system and process for gathering robust research delivery workforce intelligence to inform the strategic development of regional workforce planning activities with partners

OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT

• Work with the relevant WMCA and wider stakeholder teams to understand regional workforce needs and contribute to the design and delivery of solutions
• Scope, create, implement, promote, deliver and maintain learning solutions using cost effective approaches that reflect the needs and preferences of learners and  organisational priorities including, though not limited to, e-learning courses
• Provide highly specialist advice on all aspects of learning design processes and tools
• Contribute to and implement regional policies and SOPs by helping subject matter experts interpret national directives and guidelines, designing learning solutions for local implementation
• Provide direction to WMCA administrators to ensure the efficient and effective local administration of WMCA technologies
• Seek advice from colleagues when knowledge required falls outside of own boundaries