Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this. 

The single corporate service is delivered across both organisations.  You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.

The Learning, Education and Development Department co-ordinates and delivers education and training to all staff groups.  This post will play a key role in supporting Resident Doctors across both sites helping to provide a positive experience whilst they are working for the Trust(s).

Job purpose

The Learning Education and Development Department is responsible for ensuring the delivery of excellent learning and development opportunities for all staff groups at all stages of their career within the NHS.  It works in partnership with organisation such as Health Education England, NHS England/Improvement, Higher Education Institutions, and training providers in delivering its remit.

This post covers a broad range of administrative activities to support the Postgraduate Medical Education function, including but not limited to, line management, budgets, procurement and support for the Director of Medical Education on both sites. 

The post holder will be expected to act autonomously, ensuring that daily tasks and ongoing workloads are prioritised and completed in agreed timeframes.  The post holder is also expected to work with both teams to develop, implement and maintain shared operating procedures ensuring parity of training experience for resident doctors on both sites.  This will require the post holder to frequently travel between sites.

This post requires someone with initiative, a calm and professional manner, and a high standard of administrative and communication skills.

Job summary

This position provides leadership and operational oversight for medical education within the organisation. The role includes managing the medical education team, ensuring compliance with Deanery and Royal College standards, and overseeing education programmes for resident doctors. Key responsibilities include quality assurance, budget management, induction and mandatory training compliance, and monitoring trainer accreditation. The role also involves representing the organisation at regional and national meetings, supporting external funding bids, and coordinating delivery of courses and examinations.

Specific Core Functions

1. Provide leadership to medical education team and line management of Medical Education Managers.
2. Act as organisation specialist for medical education
3. Manage, monitor and evaluate education programme provision for resident doctors
4. Conduct annual review of provision to ensure Deanery/Royal College expectations are met
5. Work with Business and Finance Managers to prepare bids for external funding
6. Lead on quality assurance processes for medical education
7. Represent both organisations at Deanery meetings as required, including regional Medical Education Managers Group
8. Oversee Resident Doctors induction programme to ensure parity across sites
9. Support Business and Finance Manager to ensure appropriate use of budget
10. Oversee resident doctors mandatory training compliance
11. Ensure systems and processes in place to monitor trainer accreditation in accordance with Deanery expectations
12. Oversee and support the delivery of regional and national courses and exams as required

For full role responsibilities, please see enclosed Job Description.

If you would like to discuss this role further please contact Lynn Hansell ([email protected])

Essential

• Business related qualification at degree level or equivalent experience

Desitable

• Business related post degree qualifications desirable

Experience

Essential

• Proven experience of managing projects and teams which have had an organisational impact.
• Proven experience of working collaboratively and effectively within a multi-professional environment.
• Good working knowledge of accounts and managing budgets in a training environment.
• Demonstrable involvement in service development issues and change management.

Knowledge

Essential

• Current working knowledge of the NHS including current national initiatives concerning health education.
• Highly numerate with good analytical skills requiring a high degree of concentration.
• Proven working experience and knowledge of Microsoft Office [including Excel, Teams, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs. 

For more information, please see our People and OD Strategy 2026