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Deputy Medical Education Manager
The closing date is 07 August 2025
**Please note the interviews for this position will be held on 13-Aug-2025**
This post is a maternity cover position for a fixed term of two years. The Deputy Medical Education Manager plays a pivotal role in supporting the delivery of an effective Medical Education service at Harrogate NHS Foundation Trust. This includes overseeing training programs, managing educational events and ensuring the smooth administration of medical education processes. The role involves close collaboration with senior medical and administrative staff, as well as external stakeholders such as universities and professional bodies.
This role is an excellent opportunity to contribute to the ongoing development of medical education at HDFT while covering for a valued team member during their maternity leave. If you are passionate about supporting education in healthcare and excel in leadership and operational management, we encourage you to apply.
Main duties of the job
Team Management: Lead and manage the Medical Education administrative team, including recruitment, appraisals, and daily operations.
Training Coordination: Oversee medical inductions, study leave, and training programs for doctors and medical students.
Policy and Process Improvement: Develop policies and improve administrative and electronic systems.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Work with universities, HEE, GMC, and internal teams to enhance education delivery.
* Event Coordination: Organize training events, courses, and conferences, ensuring smooth logistics.
Support for Medical Staff: Provide advice on study leave, compliance, and professional development.
Data and Reporting: Maintain accurate records and produce reports to support quality assurance.
About us
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) cares for the population in Harrogate and the local area, as well as across North Yorkshire, Leeds and parts of the North East.
At HDFT we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff and we value Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality. If you're looking for an interesting and rewarding career in the NHS, where you can make a real difference to patients' lives, HDFT could be the place for you!
We offer colleagues:
* A supportive culture so colleagues can bring their whole selves to work.
* Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise achievements with our Making a Difference & Team of the Month Awards, along with annual Colleague Recognition Awards.
* Employee Support and wellbeing - we offer a wide range of staff benefits including an Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and a fast-track Physiotherapy service.
Please note:
* Due to high levels of interest, posts may close early if we reach a sufficient number of applications
* Visa sponsorship is only available for certain roles. Please ensure the role you are interested in meets the criteria for a visa before submitting your application.
* Please also be aware that the Trust does not offer relocation packages for Agenda for Change roles.
* All job offers are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification. For an informal chat about the role contact Nichola Langdale - Head of Education, Learning and Development at n.langdale@nhs.net
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to Degree level (or able to demonstrate equivalent relevant experience).
* European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL)
* Literate and numerate to GCSE standard in Maths and English
* Teaching or Adult Education qualification
Experience
* Experience in senior administration or management
* Experience in dealing with senior colleagues / leads
* Proven management / supervisory experience
* Working within the Higher Education sector / NHS environment and dealing with senior academics / clinicians
* Experience of budgetary management
Knowledge
* A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.
* Knowledge of learning technologies
* Knowledge of web authoring
* Previous experience in Medical Education
* Understanding of the role of the GMC and NHSE
Skills and Aptitudes
* Ability to remain up to date with constant changing processes in a busy environment
* Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences.
* Skills for communication on complex matters and difficult situations, requiring persuasion and influence
* Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks.
* Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, strategic, problem-solving and analytical skills
* Teaching skills
Abilities
* Ability to engender trust and confidence and demonstrate integrity in the provision of advice and support.
* Flexible in approach to work
* Ability to work without supervision
* Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and others' workloads to changing and often tight deadlines.
* Ability to concentrate even with frequent interruptions and unpredictable working pattern
* Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
* Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
* Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
* Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness.
* Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
* Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
* Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same.
* Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.
Other requirements
* Ability to fulfil the requirements of the post with reasonable adjustments as required by the Equality Act 2010.
* Physical effort: Keyboard activities. Some moving and manual handling of Medical Education equipment.
* Legally entitled to work in UK.
* Satisfactory pre-employment checks.
* Committed to Continuing Professional Development
* Emotional effort: Staff management and support; managing public expectations / requirements
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.
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