Senior Educator – Management and Leadership

Job overview

The Education and Development Directorate (2025) is responsible for delivering education, training, and staff development across Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT), supporting all staff in their roles and contributing to the effective delivery of healthcare services.

This Senior Educator for Management and Leadership is a pivotal cross site role, responsible for supporting the design and delivery of management and leadership education and training.

The successful candidate will be a skilled educator and facilitator who has experience of delivering education to multi-professional NHS staff, both patient and non-patient facing staff and demonstrates a clear understanding of the challenges facing managers and leaders within our system.

They may be a senior educator with teaching expertise of management and leadership theory and practice, or an OD practitioner with current healthcare experience; or a clinical leader with a Level 7 teaching qualification

The post holder will be required to teach both in-person and virtually, across Trust sites and regionally.

This role supports the Trust’s strategic ambition to develop compassionate, inclusive, and effective leaders in line with the new and emerging national Management and Leadership Capability Framework, and associated leadership competencies. The objective is to enable all healthcare managers to access high-quality education, training, coaching, and support in their professional development.

Main duties of the job

Work autonomously to lead, design, develop, and deliver high-quality education and training that supports both patient-facing and non-patient-facing staff.

Work effectively both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team to deliver  key individual, team and directorate objectives.

Apply expertise, and innovation to aid the design and delivery of impactful and meaningful training that adds value for staff, teams and managers.

Use research based knowledge to support the development of managers, align education to national guidance, reflecting strategic objectives.

Teach evidence based management and leadership theories and support managers in developing associated skills to support them in their roles, their teams.

Embed  current and emerging national guidance on healthcare management and leadership including the new and emerging national Management and Leadership Capability Framework, and associated leadership competencies.

Work collaboratively, engaging with managers and stake-holders , building effective relationships, utilising advanced communication, coaching and influencing skills.

Evaluate and critically analyse the effectiveness of management and leadership education.

Support the Matron for Education, Deputy Director of Education in the delivery of the Trust’s management and leadership training portfolio, and will support on clinical leadership programmes, communication skills training, appraisal training.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for the innovation and design of education and training, managing the  coordination and delivery of Trust-wide management and leadership education programmes.

This includes, but is not limited to, communication skills training, appraisal training, and other development initiatives aligned to the national Management and Leadership Framework and its associated competency requirements, The NHS ‘Expectations of Line Managers’, the NHS People Promise and People Plan ,and the new NHS 10 year plan.

These programmes will be delivered to all NHS staff across the organisation, encompassing both patient-facing and non–patient-facing roles.