Head of Strategic Education and Skills

This is a new and exciting role to join Coventry & Warwickshire ICB as our Head of Strategic Education and Skills to support the delivery of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan. This role will be responsible for ensuring as a system we significantly increase education and training as well as increasing apprenticeships and alternative routes into professional roles. The role will work with our Head of Workforce Transformation to support the workforce planning process and to identify new roles designed to better meet the changing needs of our population. Working with the Head of Workforce Transformation this role will be responsible for developing clear projections for our supply pipeline and working collaboratively with FE and HEIs along with our system partners to help us grown and train our NHS workforce for the future.

This is a high-profile, strategic system-wide role, requiring the ability to influence and engage stakeholders and develop plans that align across a wide range of complex organisations’ challenging and conflicting priorities.

**The post will take a leadership role that encompasses**:
To shape the development of Education, Training, and Skills Development to deliver the aims of our ICS in the provision of high-quality education and employment opportunities for the population of Coventry and Warwickshire.

Working in collaboration with our partner organisations, Universities, and Colleges to develop career pathways and improve access into health and care roles and ensure we have a detailed delivery plan.

Delivering the identified priorities in the Coventry & Warwickshire One People Plan, in collaboration with Executive Clinical and People Leaders in our constituent organisations, with particular focus on:
Transforming Education Pathways

Training Innovation

Skills Development for existing staff and our future workforce via education providers

Ensuring alignment between the Coventry and Warwickshire skills strategy and the health and care national workforce plans, to be responsible for identifying and responding to opportunities to attract funding/investment into the local system, building on collaboration with education and local authority partner organisations.

Supporting people and education professionals within our system to mobilise and deliver the strategy.

Being an ambassador and champion for the development of our workforce, ensuring an inclusive and people-centred approach is adopted.

Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is responsible for commissioning NHS services on behalf of people in Coventry and Warwickshire. In consultation with local partners, it plans the delivery of services in a way that both meets local health and care needs and reduces inequalities between different groups. The purpose of our ICB is to bring partner organisations together to:
1. improve outcomes in population health and healthcare
2. tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access
3. enhance productivity and value for money
4. help the NHS support broader social and economic development.

As an Integrated Care System we have agreed a common vision as well as the principles of how partners will work together. This is underpinned by the Health and Wellbeing Concordat for Coventry and Warwickshire.

This Concordat was agreed by our two Health and Wellbeing Boards and sets out our goal to enable people across Coventry and Warwickshire to pursue happy, healthy lives and put people and communities at the heart of everything we do.

Our vision is more than just an aspiration, it is the driver for real change across Coventry and Warwickshire.

To shape the development of Education, Training, and Skills Development to deliver the aims of our ICS in the provision of high-quality education and employment opportunities for the population of Coventry and Warwickshire.

To utilise workforce planning information to develop a workforce education and training strategy across the system and develop career pathways across professional boundaries with NHS/Social Care/Primary Care.

Work with NHSE to ensure the system takes full advantage of commissioning opportunities and be responsible for embedding the METIP returns into annual planning.

Together with education and skills partners deliver new pathways into health and care careers.

Work in collaboration with HEIs and other education providers to ensure education pipelines for new roles, particularly Medical Associate Professional (MAPs) roles, Nurse Associates Peer Support Workers, General Practice Assistant

Responsible for the planning and implementation of the CWICB People Plan and agreed priorities, ensuring that key milestones are achieved and that the required outcomes are met for:
- Transforming Education Pathways

Training Innovation

Skills Development for local people

Facilitate partners across the health and social care system in recognising the importance of workforce in driving ICS service transformation, using analysis, judgem