Learning Technologist

Band 6Learning Technologist

An opportunity has arisen for a Learning Technologist to join the Directorate of Nurse and Health Professional Education Work Based Learning team, to support in the delivery of all Wales work-based learning resources in a variety of learning areas. The post holder will provide resource development to the WBL team looking after the initiation and progression of the development of content for the learning management system.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience needed

The post-holder will be educated to degree level (or will possess suitable equivalent experience), with experience gained in developing resources for education/training and a sound knowledge of developing resources within projects.

Key duties for the Learning Technologist will include the following:
- Work with internal staff from within and external to the Directorate as well as with external suppliers in the design and delivery of learning resources
- Manage and communicate across Wales with NHS WBL stakeholders and other organisations autonomously, requiring highly developed communication skills.
- Identify dependencies and deliverables for projects.
- Analyse information for all the major stakeholders’ perspectives identifying and prioritising all known factors according to project scope and definition.
- Present a range of options when identifying solutions to WBL education and quality assurance requirements.
- Continually assess effectiveness of project plans and implementation.
- Support eLearning development of business cases.
- Help create learning processes and skill mapping within learning materials and resources developed.
- Assist in maintaining agreed quality levels within HEIW’s eLearning platform and content.
- Work with the eLearning Delivery and Content Manager and the Cyber Security and Information Governance teams to make sure the learning platform and its content meet security and data protection standards.
- Work on own initiative and organise own workload, working to tight and often competing deadlines.
- Deliver significant autonomy within the role, making judgements on multi-stranded issues for which no precedent may exist.
- Represent HEIW at internal and external meetings as required.

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?

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.