Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the HEIW Digital team as Digital Learning Service Manager on a permanent basis.

The successful candidate will provide a key leadership role for HEIW’s digital learning function with responsibility for designing and delivering the roadmap for our learning management system and associated technologies. Aligning to the Digital and Data, CPD and Quality strategies, the postholder will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with senior leaders and colleagues to influence and shape the direction of digital learning for HEIW.

The postholder will have excellent skills in relationship building, partnership working and leading teams through transformational change.

Main duties of the job

The Digital Learning Service Manager will lead HEIW’s digital learning function and systems. In partnership with senior stakeholders, they will be responsible for prioritising, designing, and delivering the work streams and roadmap for the Y Ty Dysgu learning management system, ensuring robust governance and processes are in place. The successful candidate will:

• Drive and lead a high performing digital learning department and service that delivers a high-quality sustainable service that enables delivery of the HEIW quality strategy.
• Lead and take operational management responsibility of HEIW’s learning management system, Y Ty Dysgu, delivering a range of high-profile products and workstreams in collaboration with colleagues and partners.
• Act as the lead specialist / expert on Y Ty Dysgu, ensuring HEIW’s digital learning programme supports the ambition of the Digital and Data strategy.
• Lead and inspire the HEIW Digital Learning function through transformational change, demonstrating use of compassionate leadership principles whilst driving continuous improvement activities to meet the evolving needs of the healthcare workforce.

Working for our organisation

Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is the strategic workforce body for NHS Wales with statutory functions that include education and training, workforce planning, workforce development and transformation, leadership and succession planning, and careers. Our purpose is to develop a workforce that delivers excellent care to patients/service users and excellent population health. We are a Special Health Authority working closely with our partners; Social Care Wales, education providers, professional and regulatory bodies and Welsh Government.

HEIW’s is committed to developing an internal culture of choice. Our Values reflect our thoughts, feelings and beliefs in how we will, and will not, behave and treat others:

- Respect for All in every contact we have with others,

- Ideas that Improve: Harnessing creativity and continuously innovating, evaluating and improving,

- Together as a Team: Working with colleagues across NHS Wales and with partner organisations.

HEIW received the HPMA Award for Employee Engagement in 2019.

What you can expect:

- a corporate induction and 90 day Welcome itinerary,

- compassionate leadership,

- a meaningful values based performance appraisal process,

- the opportunity to impact upon health and social care services and the lives and wellbeing of the people of Wales.

Many of our colleagues and stakeholders have commented on the buzz and atmosphere we create by working together as “One HEIW Team”. Do you want to join that team?