Head of School of Surgery | NHS England
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 21 Mai 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | In line with HoS sessional payments |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 20 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Reading, RG1 7EB |
| Cwmni: | NHS England |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7190383/990-SE-14742-E |
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As part of NHS England, Workforce Training and Education Directorate, South East Region, the Thames Valley Local Office is responsible for the planning, development, education and training of the future and current healthcare and public health workforce across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. Any candidate who wishes to apply must already be registered as a Consultant in the Thames Valley area in one of the local Trusts.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a forward thinking and dynamic Consultant to be the new Head of Surgery.The School provides a framework for partnership between NHS England, The Royal College of Physicians, The Royal College of Surgeons and local Trusts, to ensure the highest standards of specialty training.
This is a challenging role and requires the ability to demonstrate leadership in postgraduate education, negotiating with key stakeholders and ensuring high standards all the way. There is a busy immediate agenda with supporting the ongoing development of the existing core and higher training programmes and to support service transformation and scope new training opportunities to complement and enhance the current programmes.
The Head of School is professionally and managerially accountable to the Postgraduate Dean. The Head of School will focus upon improvement of learner supervision, assessment and experience, engagement of faculty and ensuring effective educational outcomes, both now and in the future. The role is evolving and will also focus on whole workforce transformation and developing multi-professional links mas well as innovative ways of curriculum delivery and workforce well-being strategies.
Although the main role is to lead and develop the Postgraduate School of Surgery all senior clinicians within NHS England may have wider roles and projects as agreed with the Postgraduate Dean.
The 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 visit https://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.
If you are successful at interview, we will run an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) in the Electronic Staff Record system (ESR). This transfer gathers valuable information from a previous or current NHS employer to support the onboarding process, including; statutory and mandatory competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You will have the opportunity throughout the recruitment process to inform us if you do not consent.
The post is on a secondment basis until 31st October 2026.
NHSE is expected to cease as a separate entity on 31/10/26 with the merger into DHSC, therefore extensions and new appointments can only be guaranteed up until this date. We anticipate educator roles being required beyond this point and further arrangements to be made once the new structure becomes clearer. We recognise this will create some uncertainty and will do our best to keep any potentially impacted informed of future plans as they come available.
2.5 Educational Management Contributions (EMCs) per week are available for this role. In addition, support will be available for your personal and educational development.
The fixed level of funding contribution for this role is £30,000 per annum, as an Educational Management Contribution (EMC). The number of EMCs indicatively equates to the number of PAs for job planning; however, the level of funding for EMCs are fixed and may not equate to your individual personal salary with your employer in relation to your planned activities. Prior to applying, please ensure you have discussed this role with your local Clinical Director Lead/Director of Medical Education to ensure that this work functions as a secondment with time freed up in your job plan to fulfil expectations. The financial contribution to the Trust is to support backfill for any clinical time.
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
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.
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 Wednesday 4 Jun 2025