Deputy Head of School - Emergency Medicine WM | NHS England

Overview

The role of Deputy Head of School is to work with and support the Head of School and NHS England East Midlands Postgraduate Dean in leading the delivery of a wide range of functions, aligned to the NHS England mandate. The Deputy Head of School is professionally and managerially accountable to the Head of School, supporting focus on improvement of learner supervision, assessment and experience, engagement of faculty and ensuring effective educational outcomes.

The role will evolve to include whole workforce transformation, developing multi‑professional links, and innovative ways of curriculum delivery and workforce well‑being strategies.

The Deputy Head of School will work across the spectrum of health and, where relevant, social care, within a team context, ensuring that education reflects changing service models and delivers an integrated workforce comprising individuals from a spectrum of professional and other backgrounds.

As part of the School and Education Providers, the Deputy Head of School will help lead the School and meet challenges of delivering the changing curriculum in an evolving service landscape. The role will lead on projects as agreed with the Head of School and support the Head in meeting statutory responsibilities and regulatory powers of NHS England.

• Support the Head of School to focus upon improvement of learner supervision, assessment and experience, engagement of faculty and ensuring effective educational outcomes.
• Lead on projects as agreed with the Head of School.
• Assist the Head of School in overseeing School programme management and advise on:
  • Specialty‑specific matters and trainee/trainer concerns.
  • Recruitment to training posts and programmes.
  • Use of educational resources to support learners within programmes to achieve their full potential.
  • Postgraduate programme management, including assessments, progression, rotations (to ensure Code of Practice compliance), support and remediation, OOP management, trainee management, careers support, less‑than‑full‑time training, inter‑deanery transfer, academic training and other related work‑streams.
• Support relevant School meetings within the structure, deputising for the Head of School where appropriate.

• If you currently work within the NHS and are successful at interview, an Inter‑Authority Transfer (IAT) will be initiated via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) to retrieve key data for onboarding. You may opt out at any stage.
• Applicants from within the NHS will be offered a position on a secondment basis only; agreement must be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
• Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.