Job summary
Darzi Fellowship in Clinical Leadership
Band/ Grade:Band 7-8 / ST4-6
Contract Length: : 12 months (Fixed term / Secondment)
This post is open to all suitably qualified healthcare professionals including nurses, doctors and therapy staff.
We are recruiting for a Darzi Fellow who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
This post is open to all suitably qualified healthcare professionals including nurses, doctors and therapy staff.
We are recruiting for a Darzi Fellow who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
The Darzi Fellowship Programme aims to develop future clinical leaders by combining work-based experience - working on a Fellowship Challenge, as well as academic study through a bespoke leadership development programme: PGCert Leadership in Health (Darzi). The Darzi Fellows will come from a variety of clinical backgrounds, which allows a multi-professional learning opportunity.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Main duties of the job
The Darzi Fellowship Programme aims to develop future clinical leaders by combining work-based experience - working on a Fellowship Challenge, as well as academic study through a bespoke leadership development programme: PGCert Leadership in Health (Darzi). The Darzi Fellows will come from a variety of clinical backgrounds, which allows a multi-professional learning opportunity.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process. To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
The programme is full-time for one year (without exception) for all Darzi Fellows. Whilst in post, Fellows are expected to undertake one main change programme the 'Fellowship Challenge' and join LSBU's 1-year bespoke clinical leadership programme: PGCert Leadership in Health (Darzi).
Your Darzi Challenge
This Challenge is a live piece of change work that supports the Fellow in testing out new ideas and practices, applying their learning. It will:
o Involve System Changeo Be complexo Involve Multiple Stakeholderso Benefit from a collaborative relationship with Citizenso Enable the Fellow to Lead
About us
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further details in attached Job description.
What our Darzi Fellow says about Medway as a place to learn and work:
"My name is Aranghan Lingham, and I am the Darzi fellow at Medway NHS Foundation Trust. I took on this fantastic opportunity via an out of programme experience between my ST6 and ST7 years as an orthopaedic specialty training registrar.
This has been an incredible year that I would highly recommend to anyone who is curious, would love taking an academic approach to learning about systems, organizations, and people outside of their routine clinical practise, and someone who sees themselves as having a leadership role within the NHS in the future. Overall the programme has enabled me to better understand myself and the system I work in, learn and apply organizational change strategies in practise, and build communities and networks with my peers and mentors from all backgrounds and levels.
At Medway NHS foundation trust, Alison (our CMO) along with numerous other people, have been hugely supportive of my development as a leader, and have really enabled me to explore, take on, and deliver critical complex system organizational change work to improve the quality of care for patients. I spent most of my time working with a number of different teams in the trust on several quality improvement projects, spent a session a week delivering patient care in orthopaedics, and some time in my academic commitments at London Southbank University.
At London Southbank University, we took an adult learning inquiry based very interactive approach to a wide breadth of topics which together contributing to health, including but not limited to inequality, economics, psychology, philosophy, organisational management, coproduction, ergonomics, law, and patient safety. We have had a variety of workshops, guest speakers, site visits, and collaborative learning where our experiences, together with those of our peers, patients, and facilitators, really brought about incredibly insights and learning.
I look forwards to continuing my learning as a leader in the NHS in my future career!"
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further details in attached Job description.
What our Darzi Fellow says about Medway as a place to learn and work:
"My name is Aranghan Lingham, and I am the Darzi fellow at Medway NHS Foundation Trust. I took on this fantastic opportunity via an out of programme experience between my ST6 and ST7 years as an orthopaedic specialty training registrar.
This has been an incredible year that I would highly recommend to anyone who is curious, would love taking an academic approach to learning about systems, organizations, and people outside of their routine clinical practise, and someone who sees themselves as having a leadership role within the NHS in the future. Overall the programme has enabled me to better understand myself and the system I work in, learn and apply organizational change strategies in practise, and build communities and networks with my peers and mentors from all backgrounds and levels.
At Medway NHS foundation trust, Alison (our CMO) along with numerous other people, have been hugely supportive of my development as a leader, and have really enabled me to explore, take on, and deliver critical complex system organizational change work to improve the quality of care for patients. I spent most of my time working with a number of different teams in the trust on several quality improvement projects, spent a session a week delivering patient care in orthopaedics, and some time in my academic commitments at London Southbank University.
At London Southbank University, we took an adult learning inquiry based very interactive approach to a wide breadth of topics which together contributing to health, including but not limited to inequality, economics, psychology, philosophy, organisational management, coproduction, ergonomics, law, and patient safety. We have had a variety of workshops, guest speakers, site visits, and collaborative learning where our experiences, together with those of our peers, patients, and facilitators, really brought about incredibly insights and learning.
I look forwards to continuing my learning as a leader in the NHS in my future career!"
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full registration with relevant professional body, e.g. GMC, GDC, NMC, HPC, GPC, HPCP
- Undergraduate Degree
- Minimum training level or experience of: ST4-6, CT3, SAS, GPST3/4, Band 7/8a or equivalent, from a recognised specialty school training programme
- Satisfactory progression through training, as evidenced by satisfactory outcomes in relevant specialty examination, e.g. RITA, ARCP, Prep CPD/Practice
- Where applicable, (e.g. for medical trainees) meets 'out of programme experience' (OOPE) requirements or other required permission
Desirable
- Higher degree or management qualification
Experience and achievements
Essential
- Previous co-ordination or management or leadership experience either at undergraduate or postgraduate level, within or without health care
Desirable
- Evidence of clinical excellence e.g. prizes, presentations papers
Knowledge
Essential
- Some knowledge of organisational development or management or leadership development theory, principles or programmes
- Understanding of current issues and challenges within health care delivery across the wider NHS
- Some understanding of quality improvement/safety improvement/ clinical governance principles application within clinical settings
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Teaching and training
- Ability to work with, and lead others, across professions
Desirable
- Critical appraisal skills
- Ability to develop educational programmes
- Development of evaluations / audit protocols / grant applications
Personal qualities
Essential
- Good communication skills
- Understands self and impact of behaviour on others
- Evidence of continual personal learning and development
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full registration with relevant professional body, e.g. GMC, GDC, NMC, HPC, GPC, HPCP
- Undergraduate Degree
- Minimum training level or experience of: ST4-6, CT3, SAS, GPST3/4, Band 7/8a or equivalent, from a recognised specialty school training programme
- Satisfactory progression through training, as evidenced by satisfactory outcomes in relevant specialty examination, e.g. RITA, ARCP, Prep CPD/Practice
- Where applicable, (e.g. for medical trainees) meets 'out of programme experience' (OOPE) requirements or other required permission
Desirable
- Higher degree or management qualification
Experience and achievements
Essential
- Previous co-ordination or management or leadership experience either at undergraduate or postgraduate level, within or without health care
Desirable
- Evidence of clinical excellence e.g. prizes, presentations papers
Knowledge
Essential
- Some knowledge of organisational development or management or leadership development theory, principles or programmes
- Understanding of current issues and challenges within health care delivery across the wider NHS
- Some understanding of quality improvement/safety improvement/ clinical governance principles application within clinical settings
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Teaching and training
- Ability to work with, and lead others, across professions
Desirable
- Critical appraisal skills
- Ability to develop educational programmes
- Development of evaluations / audit protocols / grant applications
Personal qualities
Essential
- Good communication skills
- Understands self and impact of behaviour on others
- Evidence of continual personal learning and development
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
