Associate Director of Medical Education

at  Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

With its close proximity to the Cotswolds and the Forest of Dean, its excellent cultural and recreational facilities, superb housing and schools, you will find Gloucestershire a highly desirable place to live and work.
At Gloucestershire Hospitals we put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the best care for everyone.
We are one of the largest hospital Trusts in the South-West, committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment ,and this can be seen in our growing community of staff networks and engagement projects. We want you to thrive, we encourage a culture of learning and innovation through our Quality Improvement Academy and offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development.
Successful applicants will be supported and encouraged to develop all-round capabilities in Medical Education whilst gaining experience in one or two medical specialties and acute medicine on call. You will be key to enhancing the training of Foundation Doctors, Internal Medical Trainees, Physician Associates and Advanced Nurse Practitioners.
The Associate Director of Medical Education (ADME) will be responsible for strategic development of postgraduate medical education (PGME) within Gloucestershire Hospitals, with a focus on training quality. The ADME will have an additional role as PGME link with one of the divisions, and will work in close partnership and under the direction of the Director of Medical Education (DME) in pursuit of demonstrating excellence within PGME.
We are a large organisation providing acute services from Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in Gloucester and Cheltenham General Hospital to a population of 652,475* in Gloucestershire as well as caring for patients from surrounding counties and beyond.
Our workforce is almost 8,000 strong and our caring and dedicated staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred, high-quality emergency, elective and specialist care across a range of clinical areas.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision of providing Best Care for Everyone and our success depends on the commitment and dedication of our staff, many of whom are World Leaders in Healthcare, Teaching and Research. You could make a real difference to our patients’ lives by joining our team.

We value our differences, champion kindness and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger. Valuing your health and well-being, we support our staff with a dedicated 2020 Hub, flexible working and a number of programmes. We are passionate about providing Safe and Compassionate Care, and we will fully support you on your Career Journey.

• In close partnership with the Director of Medical Education, to demonstrate excellence within PGME
• Supporting change where training problems arise, developing local quality management processes, linking with regional quality processes through the HEE southwest quality team.
• Delivering the educational agenda as specified in the learning development agreement, GMC standards and HEE multi-professional quality framework;
• Supporting and developing faculty, including training and appraisal.
• Taking the lead on one of the 5-PGME Strategy Streams.

The post-holder will lead quality management; share training-the-trainers work; attend Trust Education Committees, relevant ARCPs, Quality Panels, appointment committees; and support NHSE senior leader and GMC visits

Please refer the Job description for details