Job requirements
Essential
29 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Digital and analytical skills
High level of computer literacy.
- Digital and analytical skills
Experience of using Microsoft 365 to improve services.
- Digital and analytical skills
Experience developing digital workflows, forms or automation.
- Digital and analytical skills
Ability to interpret data to support decision making.
- Digital and analytical skills
Ability to see financial benefits in system improvement (including seeking income generation opportunities across the department).
- Knowledge, Training and experience
Master’s degree in a relevant discipline, or an equivalent level of highly developed specialist knowledge acquired through substantial relevant experience, specialist training and continuing professional development in continuous improvement, health service management, change management, service redesign, workforce/capacity planning and digital transformation.
- Knowledge, Training and experience
Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Knowledge, Training and experience
Successful experience of leading complex service improvement, redesign or digital transformation initiatives that delivered measurable benefits.
- Knowledge, Training and experience
Designing and implementing digital solutions that demonstrably improved quality, efficiency or user experience.
- Knowledge, Training and experience
Using Power Platform (Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI) or equivalent technologies.
- Knowledge, Training and experience
Demonstrable experience of successfully designing, implementing and embedding sustainable service improvements using digital technologies and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Knowledge, Training and experience
Experience of analysing complex services, identifying opportunities for improvement and implementing sustainable change.
- Knowledge, Training and experience
Coaching and influencing colleagues to adopt new ways of working.
- Knowledge, Training and experience
Working across organisational boundaries to achieve change.
- Knowledge, Training and experience
Experience of developing practical tools, guidance or resources that enable others to improve services.
- Communication and Relationship skills
Ability to build credibility with all levels in the Trust including colleagues, senior managers and clinicians.
- Communication and Relationship skills
Proven ability to engage and motivate others.
- Communication and Relationship skills
Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Communication and Relationship skills
Ability to communicate highly complex and potentially sensitive or contentious information about service performance and proposed changes to individuals and groups of staff, using persuasion, negotiation and motivational skills to secure agreement and co-operation where there may be resistance to change.
- Communication and Relationship skills
Ability to present updates at regular departmental meetings, and where necessary facilitate workshops for groups of staff in functions.
- Planning and Organisational and Leadership skills
Ability to identify opportunities for improvement and develop innovative, practical solutions.
- Planning and Organisational and Leadership skills
Ability to work independently, exercise initiative and make sound judgements where priorities or requirements are not fully defined.
- Planning and Organisational and Leadership skills
Ability to build trust and effective working relationships across professional and organisational boundaries.
- Planning and Organisational and Leadership skills
Ability to develop and adjust plans across multiple workstreams which may overlap and include conflicting priorities in order to achieve results within agreed timelines.
- Planning and Organisational and Leadership skills
Ability to influence and challenge established ways of working constructively and respectfully, without relying on formal authority.
- Planning and Organisational and Leadership skills
Ability to work collaboratively and make an effective contribution across different teams and professional groups.
- Planning and Organisational and Leadership skills
Ability to adapt communication and approach when working with different stakeholders or managing differing views.
- Planning and Organisational and Leadership skills
Ability to maintain momentum, overcome barriers and support improvements through to successful implementation.
- Planning and Organisational and Leadership skills
Ability to apply a user-centred approach to improving service quality and efficiency.
Desirable
7 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Digital and analytical skills
Power Automate.
- Digital and analytical skills
Power BI.
- Digital and analytical skills
SharePoint development.
- Digital and analytical skills
AI tools.
- Knowledge, Training and experience
Improvement qualifications (Lean, Six Sigma, Improvement Practitioner etc).
- Knowledge, Training and experience
Project Management qualification (PRINCE2, Agile or equivalent).
- Knowledge, Training and experience
Microsoft Power Platform certification.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Medical Education Department at Sherwood Forest Hospitals and take a leading role in shaping how our services develop.
As our Medical Education Improvement and Innovation Manager, you will help create an environment where people can be their best and do their best work. You will lead improvement, digital transformation and service innovation across a diverse department that includes Undergraduate and Postgraduate Medical Education, Library and Knowledge Services, Simulation, Resuscitation Services, and the King’s Mill Conference Centre.
Working directly with the Head of Medical Education and alongside managers and staff across the department, you will turn ideas and identified opportunities into practical, sustainable improvements. You will help us simplify processes, make better use of technology and information, reduce unnecessary administrative work and improve the experience of our learners, educators, staff and other service users.
This is a new role with considerable scope to make a visible difference. We are looking for someone who combines improvement expertise and digital confidence with curiosity, creativity and excellent people skills. You will need to build trusted relationships, influence without relying on authority and bring people with you as changes are designed and implemented.
Main duties of the job
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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This advert is for Medical Education Improvement and Innovation Manager with Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Sutton-in-Ashfield, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Manager role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 per annum. The contract type is 22 months (fixed term). The application deadline is 05 Nov 2026.
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