Perioperative Medicine is not all about clinical practice! Two-Year Funded MBA Trust Perioperative Clinical Workforce Transformation Fellow Division of Surgery UCL & Department of Anaesthetics UCLH
An opportunity for a senior trainee/post-CCT anaesthetist to become part of a joint University – Healthcare trust initiative

LONDON’S GLOBAL UNIVERSITY

Reports to:

Professor David Walker: Centre for Perioperative Medicine

Context

The UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science is a collaborative and cross-disciplinary environment where clinicians, engineers, allied health professionals and researchers are constantly striving for innovative approaches in healthcare. This includes developing highly effective solutions which go beyond professional boundaries and conventional wisdom.

As a world leader in perioperative medical education and training we are able to understand with first-hand experience, the direction our specialty must  move in as the needs of our patients change.  Our growing portfolio of education and training are some of the most innovative programmes available to clinicians and healthcare professionals across the world and now we want to put them to even greater use.

The Health Academy is an exciting new partnership between University College London Hospitals and UCL.  The project  seeks to transform healthcare professional working practice, training new skills for a workforce, intent on breaking down traditional boundaries.  Our new well trained and working differently throughout the patients’s perioperative journey.

Further information on the Division can be found at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/surgery/

Main purpose of the job

The purpose of this fellowship is to gain management, leadership and business experience, working directly with a senior university and hospital trust leadership group across both academic and healthcare intitutions to develop a robust programme of workforce transformation.  The post holder must be a senior trainee/post CCT in anaesthesia with both the academic and managerial skills in preparation for a career in medical management. The postholder will be fully funded to undertake a part-time MBA and receive a full salary dervived from working as part of a small ICU team at HCA international.  Two post are available and begin on the 3^rd Aug. 2022 and the 1^st Feb. 2023.

Duties and responsibilities:

 

• Work with project leaders and hospital Head of Workforce to understand and model deficiencies in our staffing throughout the perioperative journey.
• Work with senior divisional managers to develop, and produce strong financial models which underpin project forecasting and successful implementation.
• Work with clinical leaders to develop transformative care pathways and distributed leadership.
• Support the developments of the education team in designing, delivering and assessing the impact of innovative training methods.
• Work directly with trust communication & marketing team to develop a comprehensive marketing strategy.
• Attend and contribute to relevant board meetings
• Contribute to establish relevant project themes as they develop.
• Use proven management techniques in a ‘research-informed’ approach to implement and assess the impact of the Health Academy.

 

Person specification

Criteria	Essential or Desirable
Qualifications, experience and knowledge
Medical Degree	Essential
Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists	Desirable
Current registration with GMC, or eligibility to register	Essential
Relevant teaching qualification or Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)	Desirable
Member of Medical Defence organisation	Essential
Managerial experience	Desirable
Experience of teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels	Desirable
Experience in data collection, management, analysis and presentation	Desirable
Involvement in the clinical audit process and an understanding of the aims thereof	Desirable
Knowledge of the Clinical Governance framework of the NHS (including Research governance) and understanding of current changes in the organisation and management structures of the NHS. Ability to act within these parameters	Essential
Skills and abilities
Ability to provide clinical supervision	Essential
Effective management skills with a record of achieving high performance	Desirable
Excellent communication skills/verbal and written	Essential
Ability to take on tasks and responsibilities in a multi-professional team and to be able to work effectively and sensitively within it	Essential
Ability to organise and prioritise workload, to delegate responsibility as appropriate and to supervise junior staff	Essential
Strong leadership skills	Essential
Computer literate, including the ability to use Microsoft packages	Essential
Personal attributes
High ethical and professional standards in clinical practice	Essential
Display a professional attitude towards colleagues	Essential
Commitment to UCL’s policy of equal opportunities and the ability to work harmoniously with colleagues and of all cultures and background	Essential

 

Expressions

of Interest

Professor David Walker Centre for Perioperative Medicine Department of Targeted Intervention Division of Surgery Bloomsbury Campus UCL d.walker@ucl.ac.uk