Qualifications
– Educated to master’s level or equivalent level of experience in relevant profession/specialist area
– Full registration with a relevant professional body for example with 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.
Career Progression
– Progression through training or career to date evidenced by outcomes in relevant assessments, appraisals, or examinations
– Evidence of post-qualifying and continuing professional development
– Doctors must: have completed both years of foundation training, not have gained a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or be at a level of staff grade or associate specialist and 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 team leader level equivalent to an NHS band 7 roles
– Meets Health Education England’s out Of Programme Experience (OOPE) requirements or other required permission
– Must not hold/held a formal, established senior leadership role equivalent to Head of Department, consultant etc.
Knowledge and experience
– Demonstrates clear leadership aspirations and an understanding of NHS management
– Evidence of involvement in leadership and management and with experience, of reflection of personal impact
– Evidence of effective team working and leadership, supported by multi-source feedback or other workplace-based assessments
– Good knowledge of the healthcare system including education, research, service provision, regulation, career structures, medical politics, and ethical issues
– Evidence of post-qualifying and continuing professional development
– Demonstrates understanding of the basic principles of audit, clinical risk management, evidence-based practice, patient safety, and clinical quality improvement initiatives
– 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.
Skills capabilities and aptitudes
– 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
– Demonstrates 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.
Values and behaviour
– Commitment to and focused on quality, identifies 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 the 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, actions and applies their learning to current practice
– Seeks and acts on feedback regarding own effectiveness and areas for development.