Regional Director of Workforce, Training and Education

Job overview

NHS England supports NHS organisation to deliver better outcomes for patients and communities, working to get the best possible value for taxpayers, and driving improvement across the NHS. The national level of NHS England works through seven regional teams that provide strategic leadership and oversight of their regional health system. The North East & Yorkshire Region is one of these teams and works to ensure that the NHS organisations within their geography are high performing, sustainable and delivering reform in line with the requirements of the 10 Year Health Plan. Regional teams are also accountable for regional health system performance – covering quality, access, delivery of national standards, finance, productivity, strategy and improving population health.

The Regional Director for Workforce Training and Education will play a vital leadership role in the wider health and care system in NEY, as well as working, as required, alongside the national workforce training and education function.

Please note: the NEY Region is completing an organisational restructure and this role will eventually be renamed as the Director of People and Culture in line with the rest of the Directorate.

Main duties of the job

The Director will be accountable for delivery of agreed large scale regional workforce, education and development priorities for health and care in their region, including driving new initiatives, improvements and best practice to support the overall aims of the ICBs and Providers as appropriate.

The postholder will work closely with the Regional Director to ensure that there is accountability and governance in place in relation to senior leadership across the NEY system. They will also work in a multi-disciplinary team approach with the wider Executive Team members.

The Director will be accountable for delivery of a national workforce training and education priority as agreed with the Chief Workforce Training and Education Officer.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The postholder will need to have highly developed specialist professional and leadership skills to ensure the level of partnership and collaboration across NHSE and wider stakeholder groups that will achieve success in the role. This leader will need to have high level strategic expertise to encompass delivery against key national strategies, such as the 10 Year Workforce Plan, EDI Improvement Plan, Framework 15, Future of HR & OD and the People Promise, as well as any additional mandates for workforce, education and training from government.

The principal task of this role will be to provide impactful leadership of the full workforce remit across the region. The postholder would do this by:

Securing strong and impactful relationships with each ICB, providers’ workforce leaders and partner organisations in workforce, education and training; Trade Unions and staff networks. Leading an integrated workforce education and training function for the region. Demonstrating a clear commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, leading by example. Accountability to ensure systems to deliver improvements in the capacity and capability of the workforce across the region to meet the needs of the population served Leading on a wide range of new initiatives to deliver improvements across all workforce training and education outcomes as defined and measured by the national workforce, training and education function.

For an informal discussion, please contact england.ney.regionaldirector@nhs.net.

You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.