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Job summary

Main area
Corporate
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
277-6327600-CORP-A
Employer
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Pinewood House
Town
Dartford
Salary
£40,701 - £48,054 pa inc
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

Employer heading

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Medical Education Officer

Band 6

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen to work as the Senior Postgrad Medical Education Officer at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for a team member who can work independently in ensuring the effective and efficient delivery of the service often within tight timescales, possess good communication skills and a visible, open, and collaborative leadership style that will be essential to supporting and developing a highly engaged Oxleas Medical workforce. The postholder should have excellent organisational and interpersonal skills and will provide support, expertise, and advice to the Director of Medical Education, in the achievement of the performance indicators as outlined by Health Education England (HEE) and General Medical Council (GMC) to ensure Quality Indicators are met. 

The post holder will be responsible for managing the efficient delivery of a range of delegated learning programmes for training/non-training grades, monitoring the compliance of senior medical staff with the requirements outlined in the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Depravation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), and providing high level support to learners, managers, and profession heads across the Trust. This will be delivered through application of technical skills and understanding of Medical Education policies and processes, coupled with a high level of customer care. 

** PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY **

Main duties of the job

For the full job description and person specification please view the attachment.

The full job description will provide you with an overview of tasks and responsibilities of the role.

The person specification details the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

  • We’re Kind
  • We’re Fair
  • We Listen
  • We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the full job description and person specification please view the attachment.

The full job description will provide you with an overview of tasks and responsibilities of the role.

The person specification details the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria
  • Educated to degree level or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of reconciling, monitoring and managing budgets
  • Experience in medical education and development of medical staff
  • Experience and knowledge of medical appraisal
  • Experience of managing and supervising staff
  • Experience of extracting and analysing trends in data and illustrating findings
  • Proven experience in providing expert advice to all levels of staff
  • Experience of dealing with and responding to complaints

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work autonomously
  • Excellent computer skills with good working knowledge of internet, email, and Microsoft packages i.e., Excel, Word, PowerPoint
  • Be able to multi-task and work in a pressurised environment with constant interruptions to deal with unforeseen events
  • Ability to plan and organise a broad range of complex activities and events, some of which require the formulation and adjustment of plans
  • Ability to create and maintain databases

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareNo smoking policyAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - BronzeImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into health

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lilian Prokopic
Job title
Head of Medical Staffing
Email address
[email protected]
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