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IMT Support TPD (Medicine - West Midlands)
Accepting applications until: 10-Sep-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 10-Sep-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- 23 Stephenson Street
- Town
- Birmingham
- Postcode
- B2 4BJ
- Major / Minor Region
- West Yorkshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Secondment: 7 months (until 31 October 2025)
- Hours
- Part time - 0.5 session per week (2 hours per week)
Salary
- Grade
- Training Programme Director (TPD)
Specialty
- Main area
- Medicine
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
We are an accredited Living Wage Employer which means that every colleague working for our organisation and third-party contractors will earn a real Living Wage. We are one of over 15,000 organisations, who voluntarily chose to pay the real Living Wage.
Job overview
The role of Training Programme Director is to work with and support the Head of School in leading the delivery of a wide range of functions, aligned to the NHS England mandate.
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The Training Programme Director is professionally and managerially accountable to the Head of School. The Training Programme Director 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.
To support the Postgraduate Dean, Training Programme Directors will work across the spectrum of health and where relevant, social care, within the context of a team, so that the provision of education reflects changing service models. This will deliver an integrated workforce comprising individuals from a spectrum of professional and other backgrounds.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work with the Head of School:
- To provide effective clinical leadership, contributing to the strategic development of NHS England (WTE Directorate).
- To contribute to the vision of the local NHS and to enhance patient care by providing leadership and direction with respect to the quality of education and training.
- To be an advocate and a positive role model on behalf of NHS England (WTE Directorate), by promoting leadership that inspires, motivates and empowers all staff, and demonstrating the values of the NHS.
- To work on behalf of NHS England (WTE Directorate), providing expert advice on specialty-specific matters.
- To work locally with key groups and stakeholders, to attend and host events across the regions, to develop key liaisons and to ensure effective local engagement and responsiveness in line with the culture of NHS England (WTE Directorate).
- To review how multi-professional healthcare teams interact and identify opportunities for different healthcare professions to work more effectively together through education and training.
- To work with providers and others to support and capture innovation locally and ensure national and local conversations develop ‘best practice’.
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.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Behaviours and Values
Essential criteria
- A transformation leadership style.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously when required on difficult issues.
- Management of transformation and change.
- Sensitivity, tolerance and acceptance of criticism.
- Perform all duties in a manner that supports and promotes NHS England (WTE Directorate) commitment to equal opportunities.
- Conduct all duties in a manner that safeguards the health and safety of yourself and your colleagues, trainees and staff. Note the special responsibility as a manager for assessing and minimising risks to staff.
- A continuing quest for personal and professional development.
- An academic interest in training and education across primary and secondary care.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable leadership skills and an ability to influence and motivate others.
- A strong sense of vision and ability to innovate.
- Ability to problem solve and maintain objectivity.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, written and presentation skills.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills.
- Committed to own personal development and an ability to support others to develop and progress.
Desirable criteria
- Politically astute with an ability to sensitively manage complexity and uncertainty.
- Ability to quickly establish personal and professional credibility with colleagues and other key stakeholders.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Current clinical commitment in the School/specialty.
- Considerable experience of working with learners or doctors in training in an educational context.
- Experience of clinical and educational leadership and innovation, including managing a multi-professional team.
- Demonstrable track record of delivery in service and education.
- Trained and experienced in recruitment, selection and Equality and Diversity in the last 3 years.
- Active involvement in, and up to date with, appraisal processes.
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of developments involving the relevant Colleges/Faculties, professional bodies, related NHS organisations and regulatory bodies.
- Understanding of the workforce transformation agenda.
- Knowledge of the NHS, its structures and processes, including an understanding of healthcare/multi-professional workforce matters.
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Primary clinical healthcare qualification.
- Currently working at consultant level or equivalent in the specialty school area.
- Experience within the specialty at Consultant level.
- Membership/Fellowship of a College, Faculty, professional association and be registered with the regulatory body.
- Must hold a current Licence to Practise
Desirable criteria
- Attendance at courses aimed to support educational development (example: educator courses, Train the trainer, etc)
Documents
- Job description and Person specification (PDF, 672.3KB)
- Occupational Functional Requirements Form (PDF, 69.8KB)
- NHSE - Verification of ID and RTW Guide (PDF, 306.6KB)
- Guide to Completing Your Application (DOCX, 42.7KB)
- Note for Existing NHS Employees applying for Fixed Term vacancies (DOCX, 26.2KB)
- Redundancy Clawback (PDF, 16.7KB)
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Philip Bright
- Job title
- Head of School - Medicine (WM)
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 213 1975
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