Band 2-4 and Career Development Educator inDorset inDorset PUBLISHED 11 DEC 2023

Band 5: £29,970 to £36,483 a year pa/pro rata  PERMANENT 
A background in clinical healthcare is particularly desirable, and candidates who have completed the Care Certificate Assessor course are particularly welcome.

Deliver the following teaching programmes:

  • Healthcare Support Worker Induction
  • Support Worker Development Community
  • Care Certificate Assessor Course
  • Moving and Handling

Design, facilitate and run the following activities:

  • Career Conversations
  • Apprenticeship promotion and events
  • Band 2-4 conference
  • One-to-one Care Certificate assessing

Support the wider team in the promotion and delivery of the following initiatives:

  • Higher Development Award
  • T-Level placements and learners
  • Apprenticeship promotion
  • Career Development promotion
  • Non-clinical apprenticeship pastoral support and guidance
  • Functional Skills
  • Accessing higher education and reducing barriers to further education
  • Apprenticeship and Healthcare Support Worker recruitment

The Education Department at UHD is looking to recruit an experienced educator into a job share post as Band 2-4 and Career Development Educator. This is a part time vacancy, as a job share covering 4 days a week including Monday and Tuesday, working across both Poole and Bournemouth Hospital sites. The key purpose of the role is to deliver and facilitate career progression opportunities for the clinical and non-clinical band 2-4 workforce across the organisation.

The ideal candidate will have a demonstrable background in education/training and will be able to think creatively to engage the under represented groups across the organisation.You will therefore have strong communication and planning skills, have excellent attention to detail and be able to meet various deadlines, project requirements and national frameworks.

A background in clinical healthcare is particularly desirable, and candidates who have completed the Care Certificate Assessor course are particularly welcome. There will be also be requirement to become a Moving and Handling Champion so that you are able to support the delivery of this training to new recruits.

An understanding of national apprenticeships and careers in healthcare is important as there is a need to move this agenda forwards across the Trust


Additional contact information:

Clair Meldrum - Lead for Bands 2-4 and Apprenticeships


Location: Bournemouth and Poole Hospital


Interview Date: 18th November

This role will comprise of four key workstreams:

  • The shared delivery of the Healthcare Support Worker Induction programme. This is a 2 week long Care Certificate training programme where you will be required to both deliver clinical and non-clinical classroom teaching, manage specialist speakers and administrative tasks associated with each group of new starters. This will also include the delivery of Moving and Handling training.
  • The monitoring and delivery of monthly content for the Trust Development Community.
  • Design and deliver creative initiatives to provide diverse career development opportunities to the clinical and non-clinical workforce across the Trust. You will become a subject matter expert in career advice and be confident in promoting apprenticeship pathways.
  • Support the wider team in enabling career progression through widening participation initiatives, functional skills, and other initiatives such as T-Levels and the Higher Development Award

Please use the personal statement area of the vacancy application to detail how your qualifications and/or experience meets the person specification.

Deliver the following teaching programmes:

  • Healthcare Support Worker Induction
  • Support Worker Development Community
  • Care Certificate Assessor Course
  • Moving and Handling

Design, facilitate and run the following activities:

  • Career Conversations
  • Apprenticeship promotion and events
  • Band 2-4 conference
  • One-to-one Care Certificate assessing

Support the wider team in the promotion and delivery of the following initiatives:

  • Higher Development Award
  • T-Level placements and learners
  • Apprenticeship promotion
  • Career Development promotion
  • Non-clinical apprenticeship pastoral support and guidance
  • Functional Skills
  • Accessing higher education and reducing barriers to further education
  • Apprenticeship and Healthcare Support Worker recruitment

The Education Department at UHD is looking to recruit an experienced educator into a job share post as Band 2-4 and Career Development Educator. This is a part time vacancy, as a job share covering 4 days a week including Monday and Tuesday, working across both Poole and Bournemouth Hospital sites. The key purpose of the role is to deliver and facilitate career progression opportunities for the clinical and non-clinical band 2-4 workforce across the organisation.

The ideal candidate will have a demonstrable background in education/training and will be able to think creatively to engage the under represented groups across the organisation.You will therefore have strong communication and planning skills, have excellent attention to detail and be able to meet various deadlines, project requirements and national frameworks.

A background in clinical healthcare is particularly desirable, and candidates who have completed the Care Certificate Assessor course are particularly welcome. There will be also be requirement to become a Moving and Handling Champion so that you are able to support the delivery of this training to new recruits.

An understanding of national apprenticeships and careers in healthcare is important as there is a need to move this agenda forwards across the Trust


Additional contact information:

Clair Meldrum - Lead for Bands 2-4 and Apprenticeships


Location: Bournemouth and Poole Hospital


Interview Date: 18th November

This role will comprise of four key workstreams:

  • The shared delivery of the Healthcare Support Worker Induction programme. This is a 2 week long Care Certificate training programme where you will be required to both deliver clinical and non-clinical classroom teaching, manage specialist speakers and administrative tasks associated with each group of new starters. This will also include the delivery of Moving and Handling training.
  • The monitoring and delivery of monthly content for the Trust Development Community.
  • Design and deliver creative initiatives to provide diverse career development opportunities to the clinical and non-clinical workforce across the Trust. You will become a subject matter expert in career advice and be confident in promoting apprenticeship pathways.
  • Support the wider team in enabling career progression through widening participation initiatives, functional skills, and other initiatives such as T-Levels and the Higher Development Award

Please use the personal statement area of the vacancy application to detail how your qualifications and/or experience meets the person specification.



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