Deputy Head of Service - Salford, United Kingdom - Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

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Salford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge.

Together, we've a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore.

If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
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come and take your place with us.

Job overview:

Job Title:
Deputy Head of Service SCO Postgraduate Medical & Dental Education & Medical Revalidation

Salary/Band: 7

Speciality:
Postgraduate Medical Education

Care Organisation:
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

Contract type and hours:
Permanent - 37.5hrs per week (flexible working available)

RESTRICTIONS APPLY - THIS POST IS RINGFENCED & ONLY APPLICATIONS FROM SCO PGME ADMINISTRATION TEAM MEMBERS ARE INVITED

Main duties of the job:

Team/Departmental Information

The core function of the PGME Department is to ensure medical education and training across the Trust meets national, local and professional quality standards.

Delivering Postgraduate Medical Education is embedded in the Trust's strategic goals.

It is recognised that high quality medical education has a significant downstream effect and not only raises the quality of service provision but also the quality of doctors' attracted to work at the Trust and the quality of patient experience.

PGME therefore safeguards the reputation of the Trust and supports its ambition to be the safest organisation in the UK.

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (SRFT) has a strong track record for educating doctors in training.

Every year the trust educates all levels of doctors in Foundation, GP, IMT Specialty and academic, leadership and research programmes, as well as ensuring the supervision and development of Clinical Fellows and Physician Associates.

The Trust aims to deliver high quality training to doctors at all levels.

Led by the Director of Medical Education and the Postgraduate Medical Education Manager, the Postgraduate Medical Education team work actively with all junior doctors and Physician associates to understand their education needs and to ensure they receive the appropriate level of support and training.

Moreover those delivering education across the Trust are also supported and developed by the team.

Working for our organisation:

Salford Care Organisation
Salford Royal is a ground breaking Teaching Trust.

The Trust has twice been rated Outstanding by the CQC and is one of the first integrated providers of hospital, community and primary care services, providing local services to the City of Salford and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond.

The Trust is consistently rated as one of the best places to work in the NHS and here are just a few of the reasons why:

Major teaching hospital for the Universities of Salford & Manchester

- the leading Major Trauma Centre for Greater Manchester

Host of the Greater Manchester Neuroscience Centre
One of only two designated Intestinal Failure Units in the UK

- one of the largest Dermatology Centres in Europe

Identified as a Global Digital Examplar, a key part of the NHS Driving Digital Maturity programme.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

The post holder will be responsible for the day to day operational management of the Postgraduate Medical Education Department providing leadership and direct line management to 5 administrative staff and specialist knowledge and support to the wider PGME Clinical Education Leadership team.

The post holder will ensure that all administrative & management functions and processes are delivered to a high quality and will participate in service improvement and support major change initiatives that modernise systems, environments, and service delivery within the care organisation and across the NCA.

The workload is varied and includes managerial, financial, budgetary, performance management and project management duties as well as providing specialist advice to both internal and external stakeholders.

There is a quality assurance element to the role and the post holder will critically analyse outcome data in relation to national quality standards for medical education and training making recommendations and submitting timely and accurate reports for the senior leadership group.

The post holder will be required to have specialist knowledge of national, regional and local medical education functions and structures and an operational knowledge of the Trust's wider organisation to ensure that medical education aligns with the overall NCA strategic goals.

This role will deputise for the Head of Service SCO Postgraduate Medical Education.

Person specification:

Qualifications:

**Essential cr