We are looking for an experienced Medical Workforce Supervisor (Education) to lead, integrate and oversee Medical Educational activities. We need a friendly, efficient specialist who wants to make a difference across the Medical Workforce. The Medical Workforce Supervisor will have responsibility to line manager a team of Medical Workforce Coordinators and Admin support. The post holder will be a professional expert in this field and will relish an opportunity to steer and oversee all Medical Workforce Educational activities. The post holder will advocate and be confident in delivering presentations at inductions and placements. Additionally, the post holder will ensure a robust local induction process is fulfilled and lead on crucial specialty doctor duties in partnership with the specialty doctor advocate and lead. This is a fast paced, highly pressured role and will require an autonomous approach, excellent attention to detail and be a natural leader as well as role model to the Medical Workforce Coordinators. The post holder will be expected to train and ensure the team are confident and skilled in their job roles. The role is hybrid and there will be a requirement to be in the office at least once-two times per week which will be in Hollins Park & V7. It is important that the post holder applying can get to these locations.
Shortlisting planned for: 17 March 2025
Interviews planned for: 21 March 2025
The post holder will have responsibility to lead the team and deliver best practice on medical education matters. They will be responsible to operate a smooth function, interlinking with their peers, having oversight of activities and ensuring crucial tasks are fulfilled in line with the Medical Workforce vision.
This role will also play a pivotal position in operational tasks and will provide coaching, training and support to the Medical Workforce Coordinators and Admin. The post holder will be a natural leader and ability to coach process and protocol across the Medical Workforce to build confidence and knowledge.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
· Establish, build and maintain key relationships, across medical and dental education activities, ensuring information is integrated for the purposes of training implementation.
· To manage and own the activities with regards to specialty doctor duties, to identify, support and implement new information systems, databases and processes to support any new or existing speciality doctors. This includes understanding, devising and cooperating on the recruitment, induction and education for all medical graded posts and working close with Specialty doctor key colleagues.
· To manage and own the induction process and ensure this is continuously reviewed in line with the specialty doctor induction protocols are in full and working order, closely working together with the SAS/specialty advocate to achieve excellence.
· Work closely in conjunction with the SAS/specialty advocate and the lead to promote and sustain educational opportunities and activities within Mersey care. To also look to propose and manage any other LED / trust doctor.
· To oversee and provide support and coordination of education tasks including, the development of the resident doctor's induction courses in line with CNST, clinical governance and GMC requirements (run twice yearly) and the induction for resident doctors commencing between induction courses and locum doctors.
· To embed and uphold the Trusts clinical attachment process, including proposal of a policy
· To be responsible for locally employed doctors and partner with the Medical Workforce Supervisor to provide a full professional process. To oversee and coordinate the duties for the physician associate programme.
· To develop and be in communication with the relevant lead at Lead Employer and participate in university meetings and advising the wider team of any changes / input required.
· To advocate at the resident doctor induction process, attend and present in person, sessions at the Medical Workforce induction. Ensure that the presentations are consistent and interlinking in with the other Medical Workforce Supervisor, develop new ways to present. To be available for any questions, advice and take an active part in the journey of a doctor, outlining your role for clarity purposes and your team to ensure clear sign posting to doctors.
· Review sponsorship for any educational meetings and, following Trust financial procedures, keep the accounts of income and expenditure.
· Supervise and oversee student communication in relation to timely notification of the timetable for the placement, key dates and deadlines and when appropriate to ensure the smooth running of the Induction Programmes for the relevant student year, ensuring that also the relevant local inductions are in place and that appropriate recording and monitoring procedures are maintained.
· Act as the main advisory and reference point and source of information within the Trust for students with regard to delivery of medical education.
· To provide pastoral support for students, ensuring their wellbeing, which will require tact, diplomacy and sensitivity, referring to seniors as appropriate and feeding back to the Medica Workforce Supervisor (Terms and Conditions), Medical Workforce Lead and Deputy Medical Workforce Lead.
· Contribute to administrative process review ensuring that the Undergraduate Department delivers a service led provision, recognising value and working towards continuous improvement.
· To manage and produce reports - such as university costs, budgets, recruitment and retention, other spends / uniform and to publish this data to the Medical Workforce Lead and Medical Deputy Lead in a timely matter.
· To work closely and support Director of Medical Education in respect of any pressing issues, advice, projects and meetings that this post holder to attend.
· To develop and maintain the Medical Workforce section on Share Point, closely working together with the other Medical Workforce Supervisor, to ensure information is modernised, compliant and maintained.
· Attend the Resident Doctor Forum meetings, lead and include specific agenda items that will be relevant to the trainee doctors and look at ways on how to improve any service or induction activities.
· To line manage the team, delivering on all education and related workstreams under this role, as well as liaise and communicate effectively with internal and external partners to promote medical workforce and make students and teaching faculty the focus of your role.
· To be a key and first point of contact and participate in meetings with Director of Medication, to coordinate and fulfil tasks autonomously and feedback and escalate any complex issues to Medical Workforce Lead, Deputy Medical Workforce Lead.
This advert closes on Sunday 16 Mar 2025