Job Title: National Professional Lead

Department: Workforce Delivery Team

Hours: Full time (part time hours and job share arrangements will be considered)

Job Status: Fixed Term until 31st March 2025

Location: Homebased with national travel

Salary: £50,311.15 per annum (pro rata for part-time)

Closing Date: Tuesday 02 July 2024

Interview Date: TBC

Skills for Care helps create a well-led, skilled and valued adult social care workforce.

Our practical support helps leaders and managers recruit, develop and lead their staff, retaining them from entry level right through to senior leadership and management roles.

Find out more by taking a look at our website (url removed).

Skills for Care has exciting opportunities for a National Professional Lead to join our Workforce Delivery Team.

We are looking for a National Professional Lead who is a registered social worker or holds a social work qualification, and has significant experience of pre and post registration learning and development programmes and in particular the ASYE (Assessed and Supported Year in Employment) programme for social work. Ideally you will have experience of supporting students, apprentices or newly qualified staff, and/or delivering or commissioning training and professional development programmes. We are happy to consider part-time and flexible approaches to work in order to maximise the balance of skills and knowledge within the team.

You will be involved in managing a number of national programmes of work which directly enable workforce policy to be implemented, building capacity and capability with employers and their regulated workforce. Examples of current and recent work undertaken by the team include developing and refreshing resources and guidance (inc. making the most of student nursing and occupational therapy placements, Nursing Associate Deployment Guidance, ASYE refresh), Management and quality assurance of the ASYE programme, Promoting the sector as a career destination of choice, Professional Leadership programmes for nurses, social workers and occupational therapists.

There is a strong focus on quality assurance, consistency, and equity of opportunity in all our project work. The team regularly engages with national stakeholder organisations and also with employers and regulated professionals nationally and locally and in both large and small groups. You will therefore be required to use your excellent communication, presentation and facilitation skills.

If you are interested in this role, please visit our website for the full job description.

We are also interested to hear from people with broad adult social care sector experience to potentially support our wider work programme around delegated healthcare activity, commissioner workforce and supporting autistic people and people with a learning disability. If you don’t have a regulated profession, but feel that you meet other criteria and would like to find out more please contact (url removed).

At Skills for Care we are passionate about our workforce becoming more representative of the society we support, this includes all equality characteristics such as age, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief. This lived experience from a diverse group of people helps us in all the work that we do and ultimately supports the social care sector to provide the best quality care. We recognize that sometimes an individual’s impairment can mean that some adjustments to our recruitment and selection process would be welcomed. Please contact our HR team to discuss any adjustments that you may need.

A DBS check is not required for these roles. Candidates will be asked to disclose any unspent criminal convictions as part of the recruitment process however this will not form part of the initial application stage.