Group Head – Learning & Development, Communications and Partnership Engagement

🔥 13 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

📚 Learning and Development

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EMED Group

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2023

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Healthcare • Logistics • Healthcare Insurance

EMED Group is a leading healthcare logistics provider in the UK, committed to improving community wellbeing by facilitating access to vital health and social care services. With over 2,800 colleagues operating from more than 50 bases, EMED Group is a significant partner to the NHS, offering specialist non-emergency patient transport services through its four divisions. During challenging times like the COVID-19 pandemic, they have successfully mobilized large-scale contracts, ensuring smooth transitions for patients. EMED Group emphasizes career development and health benefits for its employees, highlighting its role as a progressive supporter of the NHS and the communities it serves.

📋 Description

• Lead and implement EMED Group’s Learning & Development Strategy aligned to the People Strategy and organisational objectives • Identify capability gaps and design learning solutions with the Chief People Officer, executive leadership, senior leaders and operational leaders • Design and oversee leadership and management development programmes, including the Manager Acceleration Programme • Lead succession planning and talent development with HR Business Partners and senior leaders • Collaborate with training, clinical, quality, governance, safeguarding, information governance, health and safety and operational colleagues to support safe, compliant and high-quality patient care • Maximise use of the Apprenticeship Levy and develop apprenticeship pathways • Promote professional qualifications and structured development routes • Lead internal communications channels covering corporate news, organisational priorities, celebrations, successes and key messages • Ensure internal communications support engagement, change, culture, colleague voice and shared organisational identity • Lead internal social value activity through the EMED Foundation • Support EMED Foundation campaigns, colleague involvement and governance via the Trustees • Develop social value, employability, outreach and partnership activity with the Talent Resourcing team • Build charitable, community, education and resourcing-related partnerships • Embed lived experience in colleague learning and induction, including a patient-focused dialysis experience video • Scope an outline budget and ensure patient-focused content supports empathy, awareness and patient-centred practice • Strengthen EMED’s external value proposition with charitable and social value partners, including content for bids • Plan, prioritise, maintain budget awareness and provide strategic leadership for the Learning & Development function

🎯 Requirements

• Strategic communication, stakeholder influence and decisive communication during uncertainty • Ability to adapt long-term plans and organisational strategies to changing needs • Ability to align team efforts with organisational objectives and establish clear metrics • Financial understanding for decision-making • Ability to empower team members, promote shared accountability and mentor others • Customer- and patient-focused strategic decision-making • Ability to develop and communicate a compelling learning and organisational capability vision • Experience or capability in succession planning, talent pipelines, mentoring, sponsorship and leadership development • Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders strategically • Ability to lead learning, engagement, social value and change initiatives • Ability to communicate the case for change and manage resistance constructively • Ability to foster innovation, continuous improvement and learning • Willingness and ability to undertake national travel

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Salary • Annual car allowance • Performance related bonus • Private Healthcare • 33 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays) with the option to purchase additional leave through salary sacrifice. • Life Assurance • 24/7 online/telephone GP Consultation and access to prescriptions. • 2nd opinion medical support following diagnosis or where a colleague is on a treatment pathway. • Cash-plan benefits, providing colleagues the option of protecting themselves in case of illness and recuperation, including dental, optical, chiropody. • Access to mental health and physiotherapy consultations. • Access to legal advice on domestic issues e.g. motoring offences, wills and probate, and personal injury. • Long Service Recognition Scheme – recognising colleagues for their continued service after 5 years and at 5-year intervals with an increase in annual leave.