Medical Education Co-ordinator

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Quarrington; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Programme

NHS pension scheme

Competitive annual leave entitlement

Job summary

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Medical Education Co-ordinator (NHS AfC Band 5) to join our busy education team in Sleaford. The role focuses on coordinating Resident Doctor Induction, weekly postgraduate teaching, study leave and conferences, working alongside senior medical educators and NHS England.

You will line manage the Medical Education Administrator, drive accurate education records, and support strategy, meetings and reports while offering flexible, hybrid

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent knowledge / experience
• Advanced organisation skills and ability to co-ordinate and prioritise workload
• Experience of line management
• Knowledge of Trust database systems
• Experience of working in a medical education setting
• Experience of working to short deadlines

Responsibilities

• Lead and co-ordinate medical education activities for resident doctors, SAS doctors and consultants.
• Manage trainee allocations, study leave, budgets and expenditure; maintain records.
• Populate training rotas and analyse feedback from induction and national surveys.
• Provide admin and project support to the Director and Associate Director of Medical Education, tutors and educators.
• Line manage the Medical Education Administrator and oversee workload.
• Support meetings, reports, newsletters and liaise with NHS England and partners.

Skills

Advanced organisation skills

Line management

Trust database systems

Medical education

Meeting deadlines

Education

Degree level education

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Employer Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Unit 8 Town Sleaford Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 15/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 11/11/2026

Medical Education Co-ordinator

NHS AfC: Band 5

Job overview

Are you an experienced administrator with excellent organisational skills and a passion for supporting learning and development? We are looking for a Medical Education Co-ordinator to join our friendly and busy team at Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

In this varied role, you will lead the co-ordination of Resident Doctor Induction, weekly postgraduate teaching, study leave, training programmes, conferences and Medical Education projects. You will work closely with senior medical educators, doctors, NHS England and colleagues across the Trust, while line managing the Medical Education Administrator.

You will be confident managing multiple priorities, resolving problems and maintaining accurate records. Strong communication, Microsoft Office, database and reporting skills are essential, together with line management experience and the ability to work using your own initiative.

The role offers hybrid working, with a base at Unit 8, The Point, Sleaford. Independent travel to other Trust sites will be required preferrably with own transport.

If you are methodical, adaptable and committed to creating a positive experience for doctors in training, we would welcome your application.

Main duties of the job

You will lead and co-ordinate the delivery of medical education activities for resident doctors, SAS doctors and consultant psychiatrists. This includes organising Resident Doctor Induction, weekly postgraduate teaching, training programmes, conferences and workshops, both online and face-to-face.

You will manage trainee allocations, study leave applications, budgets and expenditure; maintain accurate education, training and compliance records; populate training rotas; and analyse feedback from induction, teaching and national surveys. They will resolve complex queries and respond effectively to changes, including speaker cancellations and some rota cover.

The role provides professional administrative and project support to the Director and Associate Director of Medical Education, tutors and educators. It includes supporting meetings, business cases, strategies, reports, presentations, newsletters and website content, alongside liaison with NHS England and partner organisations.

You will line manage the Medical Education Administrator, oversee workload and development, and provide responsive and compassionate support to doctors in training. They will work independently, prioritise competing demands and contribute to service improvement across Medical Education.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached job description and person specification document for complete details regarding this post

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you, which include:

• All our employees have access to Employee Assistance Programme a free online 24/7, 365 days a year confidential counselling and wellbeing support which is open to family as well as staff members.
• Active staff networks
• Competitive annual leave entitlement
• Car leasing schemes
• NHS pension scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money-saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent knowledge / experience

Experience

• Advanced organisation skills and ability to co-ordinate and prioritise workload
• Experience of line management.
• Knowledge of Trust database systems.
• Experience of working in a medical education setting
• Experience of working to short deadlines.

Skills and Competencies

• Good IT skills over the range of MicOffice packages, including use of database and spreadsheet packages for information reporting.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to analyse complex information and data returns.
• Experience of co-ordinating, planning and implementation of large events and conferences.

As an ethical recruiter we will not pursue applications from red list countries as defined by the World Health Organisation. In order to pursue and apply for this role you must have UK NHS experience.

We reserve the right to withdraw or close a vacancy at any time. We will give priority to employees who are at risk.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.