Learning Development and Skills Lead in Melbourne

As we bring together learning and development across Liverpool University Hospitals Group, we are creating a more joined-up, equitable and evidence-led approach to developing our workforce, ensuring colleagues have the skills and capability needed to deliver excellent care.

We are looking for an experienced and ambitious Learning, Development & Skills Lead to help shape and deliver this ambition. Working within the People Effectiveness Centre of Expertise, you will provide operational leadership for key areas of the Group LDS agenda, translating national, Group and workforce priorities into high-quality learning and capability solutions.

Working across organisational and professional boundaries, you will build strong relationships with leaders, managers, People colleagues and education teams to identify priorities, solve problems and demonstrate impact. You will help shape a consistent Group approach to workforce learning, mandatory learning, leadership and career development, apprenticeships and investment in our people.

We are looking for someone who can lead through others, use data and insight, influence across boundaries and turn priorities into sustainable change and measurable impact. If you are passionate about developing people and want to help shape the future of learning and workforce capability across a large NHS Group, we would love to hear from you.

You will use workforce intelligence and our Group Learning Needs Analysis to identify emerging capability requirements; leading the implementation of national requirements, a Group-wide learning priority, strengthening mandatory learning performance, developing learning pathways, supporting improvements to governance and quality assurance and evaluating whether an intervention has delivered return on investment.

You will have an important role in helping us move from a predominantly course-led approach to learning towards a broader workforce capability model, where development is targeted, digital first, on demand accessible and directly connected to Group priorities and outcomes.

You will also provide leadership and professional support to colleagues within the LDS team, creating an environment where people feel valued, are encouraged to innovate, continuously improve and deliver consistently high standards across the Group.

NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHL Group) was formed on 1 November 2024, born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our communities. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with over 18,900 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services that extend to more than two million people in the North West.

We operate from five hospital sites:

• Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside, and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.
• Broadgreen Hospital is home to several elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.
• Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital provides specialist services in cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology and respiratory medicine, both in the hospital and out in the community.
• Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year.
• The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single en-suite bedrooms and mainly focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Lead the implementation of key elements of Learning, Development and Skills Strategy, ensuring delivery plans are aligned to organisational priorities, workforce needs and national policy requirements. Coordinate the delivery of the LDS delivery plan associated with Group, hospital and department plans. Ensure compliance with the study leave policy and the learning needs analysis standard operating procedure.

Develop effective communication and engagement strategies to ensure participation and engagement in LDS planning and development across the Group. Lead complex learning and development projects and workstreams, ensuring delivery against agreed objectives, timescales and quality standards.

Lead the annual Group Learning Needs Analysis process, providing workforce capability insight and evidence-based recommendations to inform strategic and operational workforce development priorities. Lead the bi-annual review.

To meet Group priorities, design, deliver, evaluate and continuously improve and keep abreast of new research and methods ensuring LDS programmes are always of the highest standard and future fit.

Develop and implement robust evaluation frameworks, metrics and reporting processes to assess the effectiveness, impact and return on investment of learning and development interventions. Lead the development and continuous improvement of the Group coaching and mentoring offer, ensuring effective governance, quality assurance and measurable outcomes.

Act as a specialist subject matter expert in learning, development and skills, providing professional advice and consultancy support to leaders, managers and stakeholders across the Group.