Head Of School For Emergency Medicine - Wsx

Nhs England; Southampton; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS England is seeking an interim Head of School for Emergency Medicine in Wessex to lead learner supervision, assessment and curriculum delivery while driving multi-professional collaboration and workforce wellbeing strategies. The post reports to the Postgraduate Dean and aims to strengthen education across changing service models.

The role involves safeguarding educational outcomes, supporting workforce transformation, and developing pathways across professional backgrounds.

Responsibilities

• Lead the School and Education Providers to deliver the changing curricular in an evolving service landscape.
• Focus on learner supervision, assessment and experience, engagement of faculty and ensuring educational outcomes.

Job description

NHSE is looking to make an interim appointment to the Head of School for Emergency Medicine in Wessex. The post would be an ideal opportunity for a Training Programme Director aiming to further develop their educational portfolio.

Please note: The post is offered on a contract for services basis and all candidates are reminded that if they are successful, they are responsible for securing written agreement from their Trust for release from clinical work for the specified number of PAs., The Head of School of Emergency Medicine is professionally and managerially accountable to the Postgraduate Dean. The Head of School will focus upon improvement of learner supervision, assessment and experience, engagement of faculty and ensuring effective educational outcomes, both now and in the future. The role is evolving and will also focus on whole workforce transformation and developing multi-professional links mas well as innovative ways of curriculum delivery and workforce well-being strategies.

The Head of School will be expected to meet the challenges of leading the School and Education Providers to deliver the changing curricular in an evolving service landscape.

To support the Postgraduate Dean, Heads of School work across the spectrum of health and where relevant, social care, within the context of a team, so that the provision of education reflects changing service models. This will deliver an integrated workforce comprising individuals from a spectrum of professional and other backgrounds.

NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.

Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.

If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.

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