Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen to shape the strategic direction for Medical Education and provide leadership to the Medical Education Team and Library and Knowledge Service at Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
The post-holder will provide advice and support to Senior Managers and Divisions within Trust on all matters relating to the education and training of undergraduate medical students and postgraduate trainee doctors. They will lead on a broad range of quality assurance frameworks and monitoring systems to ensure the high quality delivery of medical education and training across the Trust.
The successful candidate will provide guidance and senior management support to the Director of Postgraduate Medical Education (DME), Foundation Programme Directors (FPD), College Tutors, Medical Educational and Clinical Supervisors from a postgraduate perspective and the Associate Clinical Sub Dean and Undergraduate Leads from an undergraduate perspective.
In addition, they will provide guidance and management support for the Head of the Library and Knowledge service, ensuring that the strategic direction and services available match the educational strategies for the organisation.
Apply now to join our team and make a difference in health care!
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Masters level of knowledge or equivalent experience.
* Teaching qualification.
Experience
* Well developed communication and interpersonal skills.
* Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
* Demonstrable experience and evidence of strategic and operational thinking, policy/service development, business planning and decision making.
* Experience of managing, developing and implementing effective quality assurance and improvement systems/practices.
* Demonstrable experience of people management practices.
* Significant and demonstrable education leadership experience with evidence of strong team working across professional and internal/external boundaries.
* Experience in the analysis and interpretation of highly complex information and managing budgets.
* Experience in developing and implementing quality systems to capture and monitor data to influence future actions.
* Experience of developing and promoting multidisciplinary practices within a medical education and training environment.
* Experience in working with clinical and medical staff and consultants.
* Experience of managing GP and dental education.
Knowledge
* Substantial knowledge of Medical Education Training.
* Demonstrable understanding of the operational management of the NHS, and the delivery of services in a secondary care environment.
* High level knowledge of quality and quality assurance systems and their effective implementation and management.
* Good working knowledge of performance management of services and staff, exhibiting excellent interpersonal, communication, influencing, negotiation and persuasion skills.
* Proven ability to utilise Information Technology. Knowledge of quality assurance and management systems/practices.
* Proven knowledge of NHS budgetary and finance procedures.
Contractual Requirements
* Flexibility in working hours required.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£53,755 to £60,504 a year pro rata
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