Medical Education Co-ordinator

NHS; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the Clinical Education team at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as a Medical Education Co-ordinator, responsible for supporting the delivery of medical education training programs. This role requires excellent communication skills and a commitment to the Trust's values of compassion, excellence, and collaboration, playing a vital part in enhancing the skill set of the healthcare workforce.

Qualifications

• Experience in office administration within healthcare settings.
• Able to develop data spreadsheets for monitoring processes.
• Understanding of medical education administration.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate medical education programs and activities effectively.
• Provide administrative support to educational teams and liaise with stakeholders.
• Manage Learning Development Agreements and Trust-wide education services.

Skills

Communication

Negotiation

Project Management

Education

Level 3 qualification in People Development or Education/Training

Tools

Microsoft Office

Allocate Healthroster

Job description

Go back Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Medical Education Co-ordinator

The closing date is 14 July 2025

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Clinical Education team at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in our state-of-the-art facility on the Cambridge Biomedical Science campus. Our core values of compassion, excellence and collaboration are at the forefront of delivering responsive, effective and safe patient care and, to support this ethic, the Trust is committed to ensuring that all staff and students have access up-to-date, relevant and practical clinical development programmes.

To do this we are growing our team and need staff who share our vision, our enthusiasm and our pride for scope of practice, personal governance and accountability. We are looking for enthusiastic and professional individuals with drive and passion for multiprofessional practice development to join a dynamic team and to help the Trust maintain its position as one of the most innovative and leading NHS organisations in the country.

Main duties of the job

The role is central to the delivery of medical education training programs and development of the wider clinical workforce, through collaborative working across disciplines and professions.

The primary focus of the role is the co-ordination of medical education programmes and activities.

This includes:

*Being responsible for the provision of an efficient and effective administrative service to support the multi-professional education team, working closely with the Healthcare Professionals within the hospital, NHS England, University of Cambridge and other HEIs.

*Supporting the effective management of key aspects of Medical Education and the delivery of the Learning Development Agreements and Trust-wide education service.

*Liaising specifically with the Medical Education Facilitator/Manager, Director of Medical Education and the Assistant Director of Clinical Education.

This is a fantastic opportunity for personal and professional development and an exciting time to join the Royal Papworth.

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour

Job responsibilities

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Level 3 qualification or equivalent experience in one or more of the following areas:
• -People Development
• -Education / Training
• Keyboard skills to RSA level 3 or equivalent

Experience

• Office experience within a healthcare setting with knowledge of a full range of administrative tasks
• Understanding and previous experience of leading specific work projects
• Experience of developing data spread sheets for quality monitoring processes
• Communication and negotiation at managerial levels within an organisation
• Able to analyse complex information relating to data and present results to manager/team
• Experience in the preparation of high-quality documentation such as reports, meeting minutes and formal papers
• General working skills and knowledge in the use of various IT systems and applications such as:
• -Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint)
• The ability to communicate effectively with a range of individuals including learners, colleagues, and external stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication, engagement and negotiation skills. Excellent skills in writing reports to produce information from data
• The ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to ensure high quality administrative support
• The ability to make judgements on content and timing of meetings/training activity, formulating and adjusting plans to accommodate service user need.
• Able to organise, prioritise and adjust own workload in relation to the priorities of the department on a daily basis and to prioritise conflicting demands, ensuring that deadlines are met
• The ability to suggest & demonstrate changes to own practice, maintain the quality in own work and use initiative to solve problems and deliver work output independently
• Demonstrates personal duty of care in relation to the safe use of equipment and other resources
• Ability to learn, understand and utilise appropriate software packages within the organisation
• Previous experience of working in the NHS
• Experience of Medical Education administration and medical/education terminology
• Experience of undertaking/supporting TNA and data collection
• Experience of educational contract management with HEIs, Workforce Partnership
• General working skills and knowledge in the use of various IT systems and applications such as:
• -Allocate Healthroster
• Business Intelligence tools

Additional Criteria

• Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
• Ability to treat all employee and other hospital information confidentially
• Recognition of factors in maintaining own and others health, safety and security
• Supportive of equality and values diversity

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust