Leadership and Learning Lead | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
CAPTION: Job details
* Posting date: 18 March 2026
* Salary: Not specified
* Additional salary information: £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
* Hours: Full time
* Closing date: 18 April 2026
* Location: Sutton In Ashfield, NG17 4JL
* Company: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
* Job type: Permanent
* Job reference: 7856083/214-CEN-7856083
Summary
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.
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
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:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs – GOV.UK
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.
This advert closes on Wednesday 8 Apr 2026
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