The post holder will provide leadership and managerial support within the umbrella of the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Medical Education Department. The post holder will engage with Care Groups, to ensure successful delivery of postgraduate and undergraduate medical education. The post holder will support the operational duties for local educational facilities, ensuring that optimum use is made of local facilities.

Main duties of the job

This post is to support the Medical Education Manager with the operational management of the Education Centre including the revision, maintenance and implementation of local operational policies, health and safety policy, risk management and incident reporting policy. Alongside providing a leadership role for the Team Leaders, they will also act as team Leader on one acute site.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Ensure that all local medical educational activity is in line with GMC, University/Medical School, Royal College and Deanery guidelines, keeping up to date with ongoing national developments relating to medical education.
• Day to day management responsibility for staff within the Education Centres including recruitment, retention, sickness and absence.
• Team Leader responsibility for the staff at the post holders base, including allocation of tasks, holding annual review meetings, approving training as required, ensuring sufficient office cover and ensuring all Centre resources are in good working order.
• Work with the Faculty Team, Honorary Senior Lecturers and Honorary Lecturers to develop and pilot new modes of educational delivery, including e-learning to address the challenge relating to reconfiguration of clinical services. This will require negotiation skills as there may be some resistance to change, and acceptance of new ways of working.
• Collaborate with other Education Centres & Undergraduate centres identifying areas for improvement and sharing good practice. Propose and implement service change when areas of improved practice have been identified elsewhere that can be transferred to Cwm Taf Morgannwg Clinical Education.
• Support the Local Faculty Leads and Foundation Programme Directors on quality and trainee support with the Improving Quality Together for Trainees programme and trainee support meetings.
• To be a member of the Organisations Medical Faculty Team.
• Ensure all event bookings are in accordance with the local Operational Policy and the UHB Financial Control Procedures. There may be a need to cancel or re-arrange events due to unforeseen circumstances, and the post holder will ensure communication of the change to all parties in a timely manner.
• Provide effective and consistent professional advice at a local level on all aspects of medical education.
• Establish and develop external partnerships and working relationships with Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW), Medical School, University and other NHS Health Boards. Arranging multi-disciplinary meetings and events to discuss new proposals as appropriate. Engage with stakeholders within the University Health Board including Care Group Management, teaching staff, corporate services and other healthcare professionals.
• Liaise and develop appropriate networks with other Health Boards to ensure all Educational Supervisors have access to appropriate training, in collaboration across South East Wales.
• Liaise and engage with stakeholders within the University Health Board in relation to the adoption of the Wales Educational Supervision Agreement for all Undergraduate and Postgraduate trainers.
• Develop and maintain relationships with pharmaceutical representatives to assist education and training facilitated by the programme/centre. Ensure all pharmaceutical support is undertaken in line with the University Health Boards Financial Control Procedures, and related Welsh Health Circulars (WHCs) guiding this practice.

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Person Specification

Qualifications and/or Knowledge

Essential

• Management Qualification
• A working knowledge of NHS and financial systems and structures.
• Educated to degree level in a business management related subject, or possess the equivalent level of knowledge training & experience. Evidence of additional training in relevant field, management knowledge, and /or training & experience to Post Graduate diploma level
• Evidence of CPD.

Desirable

• Demonstrable management skills including effective people management

Experience

Essential

• Significant and demonstrable experience and contribution to the facilitation, understanding and development of NHS Wales Medical Education.
• Experience of working within NHS systems and structures including those in relation to Medical Education
• Proven experience of marketing, advertising and the use of social media to promote the profile of an organisation.
• Experience of working in a busy office environment.

Aptitude & Skills

Essential

• Excellent communication and organisational skills in relation to communication with a diverse multidisciplinary audience.
• Developed negotiation skills.
• Effective listener, able to deal effectively with complex, sensitive and confidential issues.
• Advanced keyboard skills and proficient in the use of Microsoft Office.
• Ability to work under pressure, to meet deadlines and to prioritise conflicting workloads and competing demands.

Desirable

• Regular use of UHB information systems.

Employer details

Employer name

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Address

Across all three sites

Llantrisant

Llantristant, Bridgend, Merthyr

CF72 8XR

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110-AC314-0824