Postgraduate Lead for Medical and Dental Education

Postgraduate Lead for Medical and Dental Education

Post title: Postgraduate Lead Medical and Dental Education

Band: 8A

Based: Trust Wide - Primarily based at the Royal London Hospital Education Academy but travel to other sites required.

The Barts Health Education Academy is looking for a committed individual to join the Medical Education Team working as Postgraduate Lead for Medical and Dental Education.

23rd January 2025

Main duties of the job

The Medical Education team work closely with the Trust Deans, Directors of Medical and Dental Education, Associate Deans and other members of the faculty to deliver Undergraduate & Postgraduate medical and dental education across the Barts Health hospitals, ensuring educational contracts are delivered and the required standards are met.

The Medical and Dental Education team provides a cohesive trust-wide service whilst retaining site-based support across all Barts Health sites. The team will be expected to work collaboratively and pool resources and skills to ensure good practice and knowledge are shared, as required.

The post holder is responsible for ensuring the effective delivery and quality assurance of postgraduate medical and dental, education and training across the Trust in accordance with the NHS Education Contract with NHS England. This includes over 1,1168 placements for postgraduate medical and dental doctors in training. The post holder is required to meet regulatory compliance and Trust standards in ensuring the effective delivery, evaluation and quality assurance of a portfolio of high quality medical and dental education and training for our doctors and dentists in training.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

If you wish to discuss the post further, please contact Maxine Byfield , Associate Director via email: Maxine.byfield@nhs.net

Person Specification

Experience

• Significant managerial experience gained at a senior level, and management of postgraduate medical and/ or dental education programmes at a senior level for at least 2 years.
• Experience of healthcare education and training systems and structures in health care setting
• Experience of the successful delivery or administration of medical/dental education and training
• Experience of managing budgets and financial information
• Experience of coordinating programmes in highly-complex and challenging environments, and managing a complex and varied workload

Skills

• Skilled communicator able to select from, and utilise, a range of high-level negotiating and influencing strategies appropriate to different audiences and environments.
• Able to build consensus amongst varied and challenging stakeholder groups, building trust and commitment and promoting a positive and pro-active partnership approach
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with experience of managing people, conflict and negotiating change

Knowledge

• A good awareness and understanding of key NHS service strategy, modernisation agenda, planning and delivery processes as these relate to commissioning and delivery of medical education
• A good understanding of medical education and training, including quality assurance processes and systems

Qualifications

• Master level education or demonstrable experience of working within Health Education

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.

Associate Director Medical and Dental Education