Job summary
We are looking to appoint a highly motivated, keen individual for the post of Medical Education Manager for CHFT.
This is an exciting, challenging, fast paced post which plays a key role in helping shape the delivery and future of Medical Education across the Trust. You will need experience as a manager in an education or training role.
The role encompasses all aspects of undergraduate and postgraduate education in addition to the management of clinical skills and simulation for medical staff, the library and knowledge skills service, the management of the Trusts education and training facilities and the administration of the appraisal and revalidation process for non training grade medical staff (in total a hardworking team of 11 staff)
You will need to have a keen interest in medical education, enjoy every day being completely different from the last, an eye for detail and a passion for working with numerous internal and external stakeholders.
Main duties of the job
The Medical Education Manager provides strategic direction, specialist medical training knowledge, planning and leadership in relation to medical education. This includes providing guidance and senior management support where necessary.
The post includes management responsibility for the delivery and evaluation of teaching activity, training programmes, continuing professional development activity, induction and skills training for doctors in training and medical students.
The role includes financial management responsibilities associated with medical education
The Medical Education Manager acts as the administrative lead for the Appraisal and Revalidation processes for non-training grade doctors across the organisation.
Medical education is a broad and far-reaching area of work with the main aim being to train and motivate medical students and medical staff.
The Trust has two Learning and Development Centres (Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary). The centre at Huddersfield is currently being redeveloped and the centre at Calderdale will be redeveloped over the next few years.
About us
We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The role description and person specification provides specific details of the main responsibilities of the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The role description and person specification provides specific details of the main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- oEducated to degree level or equivalent professional qualification or experience
Desirable
- oPostgraduate Certificate in Education or relevant postgraduate qualification
- oRelevant qualification or training in relation to programme and/or project management
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant experience as a manager in an education or training role
- oSignificant experience of line managing teams
- oEvidence of strategic and operational thinking, policy/service development, business planning and decision making
- oExperience of managing budgets in the public sector
- oExperience of implementing national policy and developing local policy
- oDemonstrable evidence of presentation and/or teaching skills
Expertise
Essential
- oSpecialist, expert level knowledge of medical education at undergraduate and postgraduate level
- oDemonstrable understanding of the operational management of the NHS and the delivery of services in an acute and primary care environment
Desirable
- oKnowledge of GMC framework, revalidation processes and statutory regulations
- oKnowledge of medical staffing, medical recruitment, Maintaining High Professional Standards, professional regulation frameworks
Communications and Skills
Essential
- Willingness to undertake further training and CPD as required for the role
- Advanced communication and people skills
- Providing expert advice to senior managers and senior medical staff
- Delivery of complex programmes, incorporating multiple inputs and stakeholders with highly demanding timescales.
- Providing and receiving highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information either verbally or in a range of written formats (e.g. briefing papers, reports and business cases)
- Ability to operate and analyse with a high degree of judgement and initiative
- Team leadership and communication skills, with experience of managing people, conflict and negotiating change.
- Advanced organisational skills and ability to co-ordinate and prioritise complex projects.
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- oEducated to degree level or equivalent professional qualification or experience
Desirable
- oPostgraduate Certificate in Education or relevant postgraduate qualification
- oRelevant qualification or training in relation to programme and/or project management
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant experience as a manager in an education or training role
- oSignificant experience of line managing teams
- oEvidence of strategic and operational thinking, policy/service development, business planning and decision making
- oExperience of managing budgets in the public sector
- oExperience of implementing national policy and developing local policy
- oDemonstrable evidence of presentation and/or teaching skills
Expertise
Essential
- oSpecialist, expert level knowledge of medical education at undergraduate and postgraduate level
- oDemonstrable understanding of the operational management of the NHS and the delivery of services in an acute and primary care environment
Desirable
- oKnowledge of GMC framework, revalidation processes and statutory regulations
- oKnowledge of medical staffing, medical recruitment, Maintaining High Professional Standards, professional regulation frameworks
Communications and Skills
Essential
- Willingness to undertake further training and CPD as required for the role
- Advanced communication and people skills
- Providing expert advice to senior managers and senior medical staff
- Delivery of complex programmes, incorporating multiple inputs and stakeholders with highly demanding timescales.
- Providing and receiving highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information either verbally or in a range of written formats (e.g. briefing papers, reports and business cases)
- Ability to operate and analyse with a high degree of judgement and initiative
- Team leadership and communication skills, with experience of managing people, conflict and negotiating change.
- Advanced organisational skills and ability to co-ordinate and prioritise complex projects.
Desirable
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Address
HRI
Acre Street
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
HD3 3EB
Employer's website
https://www.cht.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
