Site East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Town Kent Salary £66,582 – £77,368 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 14/10/2026 23:59
Job overview
Medical Education plays a vital role in supporting the Trust’s ambition to be a leading teaching organisation and provider of outstanding patient care. As Associate Director of Medical Education, you will provide strategic and operational leadership for the Trust-wide medical education function, ensuring the delivery of high-quality undergraduate and postgraduate medical education across all East Kent Hospitals sites.
This is a highly influential senior leadership role, requiring the ability to work across organisational boundaries to shape the future of medical education, enhance learner experience and ensure the Trust remains an excellent environment for training and development.
Main duties of the job
- Overarching managerial responsibility for supporting postgraduate and undergraduate medical education services and delivery across East Kent Hospitals
- Lead the development, implementation and review of the Trust’s Medical Education Strategy, ensuring alignment with the Trust’s strategic objectives, workforce plans and external regulatory requirements.
- Accountability for the management of the Education Centres
- Responsibility for the quality assurance and review processes of postgraduate and undergraduate medical education
- Ensuring effective delivery of the NHSE Education Funding Agreement
- Responsibility for ensuring effective systems and processes are in place to ensure the Trust meets required regulatory and compliance standards, including those set by GMC, CQC, NHSE Workforce Training and Education (WTE), Medical Schools and the Royal Colleges.
- Accountability for developing new business, commercial partnerships and sponsorship opportunities to maximise income generation in line with EKHUFT financial targets
- Responsible manager for the development and provision of high-quality medical education and training, performance monitoring and development of effective and innovative learning environments.
- Overarching financial management responsibilities for the Medical Education Department
Working for our organisation
We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is ‘great healthcare from great people’. Everything we do is guided by our values: ‘People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference’. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called ‘We care’. It’s about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We’re looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.
Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country. Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates for a Skilled Worker Visa for roles that are eligible at the time of application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Refer to the job description for full job description and person specification.
- Oversee the development, implementation and monitoring of educational governance and quality assurance processes for postgraduate and undergraduate medical education in line with the regulator standards (GMC, NHSE WTE, Medical Schools)
- Lead the development and oversight of a clear business performance framework for Medical Education, translating strategic priorities into measurable objectives, deliverables and key performance indicators.
- Oversee the development and provision of effective education programmes for postgraduate and undergraduate medical learners to meet the needs of their training programmes and curricula.
- Oversee the management of all education centres to meet the needs of Medical Education at EKHUFT.
- Support the DME, PG and UG Tutors to oversee the resources and budgets of the medical education directorate. Manage, monitor and audit the appropriate use of the medical education budget provided against the NHSE Education Funding Agreement (EFA), working closely with Senior Medical Education Managers responsible for specific cost centre budgets.
- Manage the Medical Education Directorate Team with direct responsibility for appraisal and development of the Band 8a Medical Education Managers and Medical Education Fellows, oversee all people/HR processes as they arise in line with Trust Policy and establish a clear focus and direction for the Medical Education directorate team ensuring all members understand their role within the team and the wider directorate.
Person specification
Qualifications and training
- Masters or equivalent experience
- Project management experience with evidence of leading and managing improvement projects in the health and/or social care setting
- Evidence of CPD
- Evidence of other specialist management training to post graduate level
- PG Cert in Education or relevant teaching qualification
Skills and experience
- Experience within the Healthcare sector at senior manager level including responsibility for strategic planning and budgetary control for a large service
- Proven track record of achieving challenging healthcare targets
- Experience of establishing and leading multidisciplinary teams
- Experience of leading and delivering change projects within an NHS setting
- Excellent communications skills, written and oral
- Evidence of Ability to understand and present complex data in a simple understandable manner
- Ability to manage conflict
- Experience of process redesign and service improvement tools and techniques
- Strong leadership skills
- Ability to communicate with both internal and external stakeholders
- Exceptional organisation skill
- Well-developed IT skills to manage and report on complex performance management information systems
- Evidence of Ability to build successful teams
- Evidence of Ability to influence and motivate staff to deliver challenging targets
- Evidence of Ability to understand and present complex data in a simple understandable manner
- Experience of medical education management
Personal/Professional Attributes
- Business acumen
- Sensitive to clinical and political demands
Other Requirements
- Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s We Care values
There are lots of great opportunities at East Kent Hospitals, where staff are caring and put patients first, innovation flourishes and you can develop your career. We’re on an exciting journey of transformation. With a local Medical School at the centre of our community, a focus on research, clinical leadership and making our trust a rewarding and friendly place to work,there’s never been a better time to join us. To find out more about east Kent visit our website . The Trust fully supports the SAS Doctors Charter and is committed to their development through its CPD Framework.
We have a relocation policy for eligible candidates, parking available at Trust sites but we encourage other options, like car sharing or public transport.
The Trust is committed to supporting flexible working to fulfil our pledge as part of The Trust’s People Strategy to help staff to achieve a healthy work/life balance. Please speak with your Recruiting Manager for further information on how this can be managed alongside department expectations and requirements.
The ability to converse easily and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for all customer facing roles.
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