Job overview
This is a rare opportunity for someone who has a passion for inspiring others and providing support to enable others to achieve their goals by becoming part of the Widening Participation Team.
Lancashire Teaching hospitals is passionate about providing opportunities for employment to a range of people from diverse backgrounds. As one of the largest employers in Lancashire there is a need to look at recruitment strategies, training pathways and programmes that meet with the equality & diversity agenda as well as engaging with the community.
This job role is a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate to make a difference by breaking down barriers and supporting candidates into employment, volunteering roles and NHS career pathways.
You will have an awareness of the local, regional and national widening participation agenda and respond by providing new ideas for WP activity and provide opportunities for employment and development of employability skills for those people who may be disadvantaged through a variety of reasons. This will be done by writing new programmes, delivering programmes and measuring their impact through destination tracking reports.
Main duties of the job
This Widening Participation Tutor role will be responsible for supporting learners and students whilst on placement at LTH. This post holder will also coordinate the delivery of our work familiarisation programme working with students with additional learning needs and disabilities.
The role also supports the wider team to implement work experience placements across all departments within the organisation and attend external careers events and activities.
This role forms part of a team where everyone works together to provide activities and opportunities that promote the NHS as a career choice and support processes that provide equal opportunities for our community to access employment.
Working for our organisation
We have 9000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Coordinate and promote widening participation within the Trust
2. Identify potential developments to existing programmes and develop new programmes meeting the WP agenda
3. Tutor taught sessions supporting students to learn about the Trust and careers within it.
4. Engage on taught sessions with a variety of students from a diverse background
5. Deliver presentations on WP activities to promote the WP agenda to a wide range of people and organisations
6. Build and maintain key relations with training providers and Trust managers.
7. Undertake work placement audits to assess the quality of learning environments against quality assurance standards.
8. Outline any areas for improvement and inform WP manager, together produce action plans
9. Support placement areas to achieve the actions to enhance the student learning experience.
10. To produce timetabled activities providing structured programmes for WP students appropriate to their ability
11. Help promote and preserve quality learning opportunities
12. To support work experience applicants into available opportunities
13. With support from WP manager, explore and source external funding streams for widening participation activities.
14. Share Information with appropriate key staff
15. Undertake training as required for the development of the post
16. Undergo annual appraisal and be responsible for maintaining a PDP and participating in the annual review process
17. To maintain a professional attitude when representing the Trust
18. Manage own workload under the guidance of WP manager, work independently deferring to manager when deemed necessary
Person specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential criteria
19. Educated to A-Level/ NVQ Level 3 standard or equivalent
20. GCSE English, Maths and IT Grade C or above or equivalent
21. Teaching/coaching/mentoring qualification (or willing to undertake if extensive experience can be demonstrated)
Desirable criteria
22. Educated to diploma or equivalent
23. Teaching qualification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
24. Experience of supporting learners from a diverse background
25. Evidence of experience in teaching and assessing
26. Evidence of developing training/programmes for learners
27. Experience of presenting to large audiences
28. Experience of establishing working relationships with external organisations
Desirable criteria
29. Experience in promoting events
30. Experience of independent project work