An outstanding individual is sought to fulfil the role of Head of School for Emergency Medicine.
The post will be available on the basis of a secondment arrangement to NHS England remunerated on the NHS Consultant Pay Scale – 3 PA / 12 hours per week.
All work undertaken is to be incorporated into the Consultant Job Plan.
Responsibilities
As Head of School, you will be responsible for the overall quality, management and supervision of the programmes within your School. You will be responsible for ensuring all programmes meet the standards defined by NHS England, the GMC and Royal College. You will work closely with NHS England's senior educators, other Heads of Schools, Directors of Medical Education, and Training Programme Directors to ensure that each trainee is able to access a comprehensive range of experiences which will enable them to cover the speciality curricula.
Qualifications
You will be expected to maintain a clinical commitment. It is essential that you have a medical degree, membership/fellowship of the relevant Royal College/Faculty and have a current substantive contract as an NHS Consultant in a relevant specialty. In addition, you should possess excellent leadership skills and meet professional requirements for Continuing Professional Development and Revalidation and make a wider professional contribution through academic and managerial responsibilities.
Leadership
* To provide effective clinical leadership.
* To work on behalf of Yorkshire and the Humber Deanery, providing expert advice on specialty-specific matters.
Quality and safety
* To implement the NHSE Quality Framework and Education and Training Quality Improvement and Performance.
School Programme Management
* Specialty-specific matters and trainee/trainer concerns.
* Recruitment to training posts and programmes.
* Postgraduate programme management, including assessments, progression, rotations, support and remediation, OOP management, trainee management, careers support, less than full-time training, inter-deanery transfer, academic training and other related work-streams.
* To attend School meetings within the structure and other relevant meetings.
* To meet Code of Practice requirements.
Educational and Workforce Development
* To advise and support in educational and workforce development elements.
Strategic Workforce Development and Commissioning
* To develop educational programmes where needed to support achievement of curriculum competencies.
Finance
* To ensure compliance with procurement requirements.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from the employer prior to submitting the application.
This advert closes on Monday 20 Oct 2025.
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