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.
About us
There are approximately 2 million people in the UK are living with or affected by cancer, and over 360,000 new diagnoses every year. Do you want to be part of a team to ensure more people survive cancer than ever before? Working as part of the national NHS Cancer Programme, that's exactly what you will do. The West Midlands Cancer Alliance (WMCA) is one of twenty-one Cancer Alliances across England, one of the largest Alliances in the country. WMCA covers a large geographical area of 6 counties: Birmingham and Solihull, Coventry and Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, The Black Country and Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent. The West Midlands Cancer Alliance team is hosted at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust working across the wider West Midlands footprint. This role requires regular travel across the Midlands and the team meet face to face in Central Birmingham once a fortnight. Cancer Alliances were set-up to deliver the collective ambitions identified by the National Cancer Taskforce, with the aim of increasing survival rates across the area and the experience of those living with and beyond cancer, ensuring that we address inequalities and improve patient experience wherever possible. We do this by bringing together all the organisations which commission, provide, and contribute to cancer services across our area to enable quality improvement and better outcomes for patients through effective and coordinated partnership working.
Job 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
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Experience in (or Degree-level qualification) in digital learning, educational design, instructional design, education, learning technologies or a related field, with evidence of continued professional development
Experience
* Demonstrable experience designing, developing and delivering high-quality e-learning or digital education content, ideally within healthcare, public sector or other complex organisational settings.
* Proven experience of working collaboratively with clinicians, subject matter experts or professional stakeholders, translating complex content into effective, learner-centred digital resources.
* Practical experience of managing content within a Learning Management System (LMS) and using a range of digital authoring, multimedia or learning technologies to produce engaging educational materials.
* Experience coordinating multiple workstreams or learning requests, including prioritisation, planning and delivery to agreed deadlines, demonstrating organisation and autonomy
Knowledge
* Clear understanding of NHS governance requirements, including accessibility standards, information governance, data protection and quality assurance relating to digital learning content.
* Experience using learning analytics, evaluation data or reporting tools to measure engagement, demonstrate impact and support continuous improvement of educational provision.
Evidence
* Evidence of understanding how digital education supports workforce development, service transformation or upskilling, with the ability to align work to ACCEND, National Cancer Programme priorities and NHS Long Term Plan objectives
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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