# Medical Education Improvement and Innovation Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/medical-education-improvement-and-innovation-manager/48cce4a7-b93f-4cf2-8e42-f4b22f6d7b54 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/medical-education-improvement-and-innovation-manager/48cce4a7-b93f-4cf2-8e42-f4b22f6d7b54.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Trust Headquarters, King's Mill Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Manager - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum - **Contract type:** 22 months (fixed term) - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (This is an office-based role with the option to work remotely for one day a week subject to business need) - **Closing date:** 2026-11-05T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-22T14:10:35.008Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Nottinghamshire/Sutton_Ashfield/Sherwood_Forest_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Continuous_Improvement/Continuous_Improvement-v8210026 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8210026?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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 To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities ## Person Specification ### Digital and analytical skills **Essential** - High level of computer literacy. - Experience of using Microsoft 365 to improve services. - Experience developing digital workflows, forms or automation. - Ability to interpret data to support decision making. - Ability to see financial benefits in system improvement (including seeking income generation opportunities across the department). **Desirable** - Power Automate. - Power BI. - SharePoint development. - AI tools. ### Knowledge, Training and experience **Essential** - 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. - Evidence of continuing professional development. - Successful experience of leading complex service improvement, redesign or digital transformation initiatives that delivered measurable benefits. - Designing and implementing digital solutions that demonstrably improved quality, efficiency or user experience. - Using Power Platform (Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI) or equivalent technologies. - Demonstrable experience of successfully designing, implementing and embedding sustainable service improvements using digital technologies and continuous improvement methodologies. - Experience of analysing complex services, identifying opportunities for improvement and implementing sustainable change. - Coaching and influencing colleagues to adopt new ways of working. - Working across organisational boundaries to achieve change. - Experience of developing practical tools, guidance or resources that enable others to improve services. **Desirable** - Improvement qualifications (Lean, Six Sigma, Improvement Practitioner etc). - Project Management qualification (PRINCE2, Agile or equivalent). - Microsoft Power Platform certification. ### Communication and Relationship skills **Essential** - Ability to build credibility with all levels in the Trust including colleagues, senior managers and clinicians. - Proven ability to engage and motivate others. - Excellent communication and presentation 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. - 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 **Essential** - Ability to identify opportunities for improvement and develop innovative, practical solutions. - Ability to work independently, exercise initiative and make sound judgements where priorities or requirements are not fully defined. - Ability to build trust and effective working relationships across professional and organisational boundaries. - Ability to develop and adjust plans across multiple workstreams which may overlap and include conflicting priorities in order to achieve results within agreed timelines. - Ability to influence and challenge established ways of working constructively and respectfully, without relying on formal authority. - Ability to work collaboratively and make an effective contribution across different teams and professional groups. - Ability to adapt communication and approach when working with different stakeholders or managing differing views. - Ability to maintain momentum, overcome barriers and support improvements through to successful implementation. - Ability to apply a user-centred approach to improving service quality and efficiency. ## Documents - [benefits leaflet (pdf, 834.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2702) - [application guide (pdf, 584.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2448) - [our staff networks (pdf, 810.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2938) - [nursing, midwifery & ahp strategy 25-28 (pdf, 2.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2492) - [job description (final, approved at je panel) (pdf, 304.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10521138) ## 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.