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Leadership and Learning Lead
The closing date is 08 April 2026
Are you an experienced leadership and learning professional who can hit the ground running and deliver development that genuinely changes practice?
We're looking for a Leadership and Learning Development Lead to join our People Development Department at Sherwood Forest Hospitals. In this pivotal role you will provide specialist leadership in management, planning and design and delivery of learning and leadership development that supports colleagues to deliver safe, high-quality patient care.
You will lead an established team delivering a broad Trust-wide portfolio alongside key Corporate and Workforce Development priorities such as Trust induction and processes, support talent management and the Trust's coaching and mentoring infrastructure.
Our leadership development offer is growing and has strong governance backing, with participation increasing and significant planned capacity. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who can combine strategic oversight with hands‑on delivery, quality assurance and impact evaluation — and who enjoys working with senior stakeholders to translate organisational priorities into practical, high-quality development.
You'll shape leadership capability across the Trust — combining strategic oversight with hands‑on facilitation, coaching and delivery that helps our leaders create great teams and improve day‑to‑day service delivery.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award‑winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically‑led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS‑run hospital in the East Midlands.
Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
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Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
* Significant up to date knowledge of leadership and management development and training delivery, HR, change and talent management approaches and organisational development and improvement techniques and methodologies
* In depth understanding and implementation of organisational change and development processes
* Knowledge of project management approaches and techniques
* Knowledge of developing and applying behaviour and competency frameworks within a large organisation
* Broad knowledge of HR processes such as appraisal, sickness absence, capability and performance management.
* Good knowledge of psychometric and other assessment tools to aid personal and professional development
* Good understanding of NHS initiatives
* Service improvement and lean concepts and models
* NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework
Qualifications
* Master's degree or equivalent higher level qualifications in relevant subject area
* Qualifications and training in relevant HR, training and leadership related topics
* Teacher Training qualification or equivalent
* Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
* Coaching qualification
Experience
* Significant experience of developing, planning, organising and delivering of leadership and management development programmes and strategies and organisational development initiatives
* Significant experience of designing, planning, developing and delivering change management and a broad range of HR and soft skills training courses using high level communication and presentation skills
* Experience of developing and applying behaviour and competency frameworks within a large organisation
* Experience of designing, developing and implementing talent management strategies and organisational coaching and mentoring networks
* Experience of using a range of psychometric and other assessment tools to aid personal and professional development and giving sensitive and constructive feedback
* Highly developed analytical and problem solving skills that can be applied to multiple initiatives with the ability to collate and compare complex data and information, to identify and develop potential solutions, and recommend courses of action
* To be innovative, with the ability to ‘think differently’ and challenge current behaviours and mindsets
* Experience of leading and managing a wide range of projects and experience of managing a team
* Experience of working in partnership with directors, senior managers, clinicians, volunteers, service users and/or different professional groups to develop and implement development strategies
* Experience in working with external partners including funding bodies, higher and further education bodies, training providers and commissioners
Contractual Requirements
* Regular attendance and to work flexibly when required to meet the needs of the service
* Ability to travel across the geographical sites
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.
Employer name
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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