| Qualifications |
| Essential: • Educated to master’s level or equivalent level of experience in relevant profession/specialist area • Full registration with relevant professional body (for example the General Medical Council) • Public health speciality trainees from a background other than medicine must be on the UK Public Health Speciality training Scheme and enrolled with the Faculty of Public Health • Demonstrable skills in both written and spoken English to enable excellent and effective communication • Must be eligible to work in the UK or participate in this Scheme according to visa requirements • Able to travel across various sites where applicable. Desirable: • Member of a relevant professional body • Prior leadership or management training/qualification. |
| Career progression |
| Essential: • Progression through training or career to date as evidenced in relevant assessments, appraisals, or examinations • Evidence of post-qualifying and continuing professional development • Doctors must have completed both years of foundation training, not gained a Certificate of Completion of Training or be at a level of Staff grade or associate specialist not participating in additional fellowships or secondments during the fellowship year. • Nurses, midwives, healthcare scientists, allied health professionals, pharmacists, and dentists must have experience at the team leader level equivalent to an NHS band 7 role • If applicable (for postgraduate medical trainees) meet with Health Education England’s Out of Programme Experience requirements (ADD LINK) • Must not hold/held a formal, established senior leadership role equivalent to Head of Department, consultant etc. |
| Skills and aptitudes |
| Essential: • Demonstrates an appreciation and application of reflective practices • Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to rapidly build credibility with multiple stakeholders, including senior managers and clinicians • Ability to understand and take account of other perspectives especially with controversial issues. • Ability to provide, present and receive complex, sensitive, or contentious information to large or influential groups and develop a range of options to reconcile strategic and operational issues; • Able to negotiate with stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, including performance and change • Demonstrate a strong desire for continuous improvement of patient outcomes and experiences • Proven ability to influence others through a can-do and positive attitude • Able to build and nurture key professional relationships and networks • Ability to manage competing priorities. Desirable • Ability to operate and think at a strategic level and develop a compelling vision for quality improvement and delivery. |
| Values and behaviour |
| Essential: • Commitment to and focused on quality, opportunities for improvements and promotes high standards in all they do • Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public • Values diversity and difference operates with integrity, compassion, and openness • Respectful of teams; values, encourages and openly celebrates the contribution of others • Actively supports and nurtures development of others • Practices commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships. • Role models confidentiality and psychological safety • Ability to be adaptable and flexible in the face of uncertainty and change • Demonstrates probity in all aspects of professional life • Reflects on past thinking, behaviours and actions and applies learning to current practice • Seeks and acts on feedback regarding own effectiveness and areas for development. Desirable: • Refers to national leadership and management standards and frameworks to develop appropriate behaviours and competencies. |