Associate Dean

The role of Associate Dean (AD) in England has evolved over a number of years, as a result of changes in healthcare education and training, the implementation of revalidation, the emergence of new workforce solutions and the continuing development of Health Education England (HEE) and subsequently the Workforce, Training and Education (WT&E) Directorate of NHS England (NHSE).

The roles of the ADs in NHSE East of England (EoE) have been developed to help support the NHSE EoE Postgraduate Dean (PGD) in embracing corporate, statutory and non-statutory functions, aligning with previous HEE mandates and NHSE’s priorities. The role is focused firmly upon improving patient and learner safety and experience and ensuring effective educational outcomes.

To support the PGD, the ADs will work across the spectrum of healthcare 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.

The ADs are professionally and managerially accountable to the NHSE EoE PGD.

This particular role is designed to provide support to the DMEs in the EoE at local, regional and national levels.

Engaging People/Key Working relationships

Key Working relationships
- NHSE EoE PGD
- NHS EoE DDs
- Other DMEs across the Region
- Medical Education Leaders UK
- Other ADs locally, regionally and nationally
- Professional and regulatory bodies
- Royal Colleges
- Providers and commissioners across the region
- Local Medical and Dental Schools, Higher Education Institutes (HEIs)
- Heads of Schools, Training Programme Directors and clinical faculty in secondary and tertiary care
- Senior Educators from General Practice / Primary Care
- Wider Stakeholder Network
- Patients and service user representatives
- Other staff at all levels across the regional area covered by the EoE local

Delivering Results/Functional Responsibilities

Quality and Safety
- To work closely with the PGD to emphasise the importance of and promote the development of high-quality learning environments for all learners.
- To support colleagues across the region with developing effective educational governance structures within their LEP, ensuring that education is closely and regularly considered at Board level
- To work closely with NHSE EoE WT&E Directorate’s quality team to build positive relationships with local education providers (LEPs) across the EoE
- To support with the management of specialty-specific and LEP-specific quality and/or patient safety
- To support a culture of continuous quality improvement
- To support the PGD in meeting NHSE EoE statutory
- To support the development of quality processes which are complementary across the healthcare workforce.
- To support the use of clinical skills training and simulation (where appropriate/applicable), stressing the importance of teamwork and human factors

Programme Management
- To facilitate the efficient and effective use of educational resources across the region to support learners of all professions to reach their full potential.
- To support postgraduate medical and dental programme management, including assessments, progression, rotations, support and remediation, OOP management, trainee management, careers support, less than full-time training, inter-deanery transfer, academic training and other related work
- To support trusts with compliance with the requirements of the educational contract, particularly around the supervision and support for trainees and learners.
- To provide advice on the use of the study leave budget, including to act as a panel member to consider study leave appeals, when needed
- To promote the use of the EoE blended learning platform

Educational and Workforce Development
- To ensure effective careers advice is available and offer careers advice to trainees and learners where
- To provide advice on the local implementation of the national post distribution and expansion workstreams

Strategic Workforce Development and Commissioning
- To contribute to workforce planning, ensuring clinical engagement with local and national workforce planning processes.
- To support multi-professional working and workforce
- To identify and support the implementation of alternative workforce solutions within the EoE.
- To advise the PGD on commissioning and decommissioning

Finance
- To assist colleagues in LEPs across the region to develop financial arrangements which allow the senior educators and education managers within the LEP to have control over their budgets
- To engage with business planning processes and associated school budgets, as needed
- To ensure compliance with procurement requirements.

Other Areas of Work

**To assist in**:

- Supporting activities within specific geographical areas/LEPs within the EoE
- Developing and supporting links on an EoE-wide basis
- Other work-streams as defined b