The role of Head of School for Paediatrics is to work with and support the Postgraduate Dean in leading the delivery of a wide range of functions, aligned to the NHSE mandate.
The Head of School is professionally and managerially accountable to the Postgraduate Dean. The role focuses on improving learner supervision, assessment, experience, engaging faculty, and ensuring effective educational outcomes. It is evolving to include whole workforce transformation and developing multi-professional links.
The NHS England board has set out the top-level purpose to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which guides the detailed design work. This purpose is achieved by:
1. Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their communities and reduce health inequalities.
2. Making the NHS a great place to work, where staff can make a difference and achieve their potential.
3. Working collaboratively to ensure the healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values, and behaviors to deliver accessible, compassionate care.
4. Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation.
5. Delivering value for money.
For more information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend at least 40% of their time working in-person.
If successful at interview, an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) will be run in the Electronic Staff Record system (ESR), which gathers information from a previous or current NHS employer to support onboarding, including statutory and mandatory competencies, continuous service dates, and annual leave entitlement. You may inform us if you do not consent to this process.
Key Responsibilities
* Education and Training Quality Improvement and Performance: Promote a quality learning environment and support Postgraduate Deans in meeting NHSE statutory requirements.
* Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality Improvement: Develop quality processes across the healthcare workforce and support clinical skills training and simulation, emphasizing teamwork and human factors.
* School Programme Management: Oversee programme management, advise on specialty-specific matters, recruitment, assessments, progression, rotations, trainee support, remediation, and related workstreams.
* Educational and Workforce Development: Support faculty development, compliance with supervision requirements, identify learning needs, and promote shared inter-professional learning opportunities.
* Intelligence Support/Provision: Use local intelligence to inform quality management and engage with information systems.
Further details, including key responsibilities and organisational structure, are available in the attached Job Description and supporting documents.
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered a secondment, subject to employer approval prior to application.
This advert closes on Monday 18 Aug 2025.
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