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Associate Dean – NHSE Global Health Fellowship Programme | NHS England

Posting date:	20 March 2024
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	To be funded by the Education Contract
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	19 April 2024
Location:	Fulbourn, Cambridge, CB21 5XB
Company:	Health Education England
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	6093491/990-NAT-S-3b-22616

Summary

The East of England Deanery hosts a number of active programs which enable Doctors in Training to participate in the Global Health arena. The NHSE Global Health Fellowship Programme (NHSE GHVP) is a long standing, NHSE funded, time out of programme for early career doctors in training (DiTs) in the UK. It traditionally recruited GP Trainees, but more recently has been attracting trainees from secondary care, especially ACCS, EM, CMT, Paediatrics and Anaesthetics. Trainees on this program typically spend 6-9 months in one of a number of locations; including remote rural hospitals in Southern and Eastern Africa, India and elsewhere. Further information on the program can be found here . Formal and independent evaluation of the programme has recently been undertaken demonstrating its effectiveness, and with a number of suggestions for improving and expanding the programme and which is available on request.

The GHVP AD role has become vacant as a result of the imminent retirement of the current AD. The post is fully funded at 6 PAs/Sessions by NHSE and is hosted by the EoE Deanery. We work closely with the National Directorate of Global Health Partnerships. The GHVP AD does not need to be physically based in the EoE, but does need to be resident in England.

It is preferable, but not mandatory that the AD has a clinical contract with an NHS Trust or is actively working in GP. It is essential that the AD has an excellent track record of educational delivery, and especially educational supervision, of doctors in training in the UK and relevant experience of healthcare in resource poor global locations.

It is anticipated that the successful applicant will work primarily with the UK administrative and clinical staff remotely, and similarly with staff in host countries and hospitals. However, it is also expected that as required the successful applicant would travel to the local (EoE) offices to meet with the teams involved in the delivery of the program in the East of England. There are likely to be some opportunities for international travel to support establishment of strategic institutional relationships that underpin the programme.

We are currently working with NHSE to review governance ad oversight of NHSE managed overseas programs, including this one. The GHVP AD will be pivotal to ensuring the running of the program and the management and support to DiTs on the program is in line with national guidance as it develops. The GHVP AD is likely to be involved in developing/evaluating such guidance.

Line management and support for the appointee(s) will be provided by a deputy postgraduate dean from East of England, and the appointee will integrate with, and share developmental opportunities with other APDs working in the deanery.

In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.

The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visithttps://www.england.nhs.uk/ .

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Main duties of the job
1. Recruitment of doctors to the GHV program
2. Delivery of an annual pre deployment course with a face to face element in the East of England.
3. Development and delivery of pre deployment and deployment educational materials on the EoE regional learning platform
4. Review and support to doctors on placement during the program, including working alongside educational supervisors in the Host Trusts.
5. Quality assurance of placements in Host trusts
6. Follow up of doctors after the end of the program
7. Ongoing evaluation of the program
8. Governance and oversight of the program
9. Review and evolution of the program in line with local NHSE policies and guidance
10. Provide Leadership and decision making capability for the Programme
11. Revise the written HEE/NHSE Guidance for Doctors working or volunteering overseas
12. Continue GH “virtual” Teams Coffee Mornings say twice year - good forum for dissemination of information and networking
13. Leadership and development of the Deanery based GH Leadership Team with regular meetings
14. Ability and willingness to travel overseas

Please note that this job could be undertaken on a job share basis – the distribution of the available PAs/Sessions between post holders being negotiable.

This role is being advertised on fixed term basis, for an initial period of 12 months. The future of the role beyond 24/25 will be dependent on the confirmation of ongoing funding for the GH Fellowship programme in future financial years.
Secondments

Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.


This advert closes on Monday 6 May 2024