Education & Development Manager Hospice

Education & Development Manager

SAH Band 7 £ 51,371 to £59,747 pro rata per annum

28‑35 hours per week, Monday to Friday with some flexibility required to meet service needs.

Flexible and hybrid working options available.

St Andrew’s Hospice is a registered charity providing specialist palliative care for patients with life‑limiting conditions which require complex symptom management, and/or end‑of‑life care. It is Lanarkshire's specialist hospice and provides multidisciplinary support for patients, their families and carers. The service is provided completely free of charge for the adult population of North and South Lanarkshire and is open to all without distinction of race, gender or creed.

The Hospice values represent our core beliefs and act as our guiding principles at the very heart of all that we do. Our values are:
Human Dignity, Compassion, Justice, Advocacy and Quality.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and registered health care professional to join St Andrew’s Hospice as our Education & Development Manager. The successful candidate will provide expert leadership in education to support the clinical and non‑clinical workforce and contribute to the Hospice Strategic Plan.

Key duties include:

• Design, deliver and evaluate learning programmes
• Deliver clinical education, training and development
• Engage staff in learning and provide tools to empower them to develop their own practice
• Promote clinical effectiveness through the promotion of research‑based practice, translating evidence into clinical practice
• Develop and deliver training using innovative and variety of learning methods
• Complete a training needs analysis across the Hospice to develop hospice training plans
• Participate in nurse training in partnership with Glasgow Caledonian University

• Registered Health Care professional with qualification at degree level 11 or equivalent experience
• Experience in mentoring students, nurses and teaching and assessing in practice
• Post‑qualification experience in specialist Palliative Care and/or end‑of‑life care and/or oncology
• Experience in delivering and developing training and education to a range of staff
• Knowledge of educational theory and approaches to providing quality learning experience
• Knowledge and ability to mark SQA Level 9 & Level 10 assessments
• Self‑motivated
• Commitment to own personal development and the development of other team members

• A warm and supportive working environment
• Competitive salaries
• Unsocial Hours Payments (where relevant to role)
• Generous Annual Leave Entitlement
• Induction Programme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Counselling Services
• Occupational Health
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Flexible Working Practices
• Ongoing learning & development opportunities
• NHS Staff Benefits Scheme

We reserve the right to close this advert early should we receive sufficient applications.