Education and Training Lead - North Thames Genomic Medicine
Centre
Job description
Background
UCLPartners is an academic health science partnership, originating from organisations within our AHSC and expanding
to more comprehensively include healthcare delivery organisations and universities working within a connected health
economy across North Central, North East London, South, Mid and West Essex, South and West Herts and South Beds.
The partners form one of the world’s leading resources for medical discovery, healthcare innovation and education
serving 6 million people locally, including many of the most deprived and vulnerable communities in the country.
Whilst each organisation rightly delivers its own priorities, by working together partners can often provide greater
benefits to patients and populations than could be achieved working alone. UCLPartners acts to catalyse those
relationships and enable delivery through partnership.
UCLPartners is grounded in a culture of partnership working and delivery. Examples of practical support include:
 Dedicated staff that can respond flexibly and quickly to the needs of the partnership, providing both specific
support/expertise on co-creation and help to enable rapid implementation of solutions. Wherever possible,
a guiding principle is that programmes are owned and benefits are attributed to partner organisations, not
the company.
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Enabling a new cadre of improvement fellows and “academic managers” who have confidence in bridging the
gap between universities and health services, drawing on a greater breadth of evidence to maximise health
gain, and creating opportunities for staff across our partnership to lead work beyond their traditional remit.
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A neutral space to improve outcomes for patients and population groups whilst understanding and addressing
the needs of partner organisations (e.g specialist service reconfiguration)
The North Thames Genomics Medicine Centre (NTGMC) forms part of this partnership.
North Thames Genomics Medicine Centre (NTGMC)
NTGMC has been set up to help gain a better understanding of the genetic causes of cancer, rare disorders and
infectious diseases. It is part of the Government’s 100,000 Genomes Project which aims to sequence 100,000
genomes from participants with cancer, rare disorders and infectious diseases.
Six hospital trusts in north London have formed a partnership to create the North Thames NHS Genomics Medicine
Centre. Led by Great Ormond Street Hospital, the other trusts involved in the partnership are Barts Health NHS
Trust, London North West Healthcare NHS Trust, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the Royal Free
London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). Each of these
hospital trusts will be participating in the 100,000 Genome Project.
People who are eligible to take part in the project will be identified by their doctor and asked to provide blood, or
blood and tumour samples for genetic sequencing. For rare diseases we will also ask some family members to give
consent to take part in the study.
The North Thames GMC is currently one of eleven regional Genomic Medicine Centres in England.
Role description
The Education and Training Lead will be responsible for:
 Co-ordination and delivery of genomic education and training across NTGMC, working closely with the
consultant genetic educational lead and rest of educational team.
 Work in partnership with key stakeholders including NTGMC core team and partners, local trusts, HEE, NHS
England and UCLPartners
 Ensure HEE educational resources are available to NTGMC
Key responsibilities
The Education and training lead would be responsible for:
Scoping
 Scoping the education and training needs across the partnership
 Identifying health care professional groups from primary and secondary care as well as patients and carers
needs
 Matching needs to HEE genomic resources already available or in development
 Identifying gaps in education and training materials and working with national HEE, the local LETB, locally
sourcing experts or identifying experts from other GMCs to develop materials to address the gaps
Access
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Identifying all education materials available at a national, regional and local level
Promoting access to all current materials
Developing tools to enable wide access
Ensure the MSc in Genomic Medicine run jointly by QMUL and UCL is widely promoted
Work with the LETB, PPI and GMC network to ensure any materials developed over the country can be
utilised by stakeholders in North Thames GMC
Develop methods/processes to evidence materials are being widely accessed and ensuring equity of access
across the partnership
Evaluation
 Develop processes to capture evaluation and feedback from local, regional and national training so the
impact of the education and training can be understood and ensure improvements are made as identified
and necessary
Future Workforce
 Support the LETB through the 2016/17 workforce planning cycle to identify the education and training needs
of the local system.
Programme Management
 Manage and Lead the Education and training workstream including establishing the workstream board and
developing the delivery plan
 Manage the budget
 Responsible for reporting to NHS England and HEE on delivery against the programme plan
 Develop the communication plan to support the role out of the education programmes, working closely with
the GMC communications group to ensure delivery across the Network.
Terms and conditions relevant to this employment
Job Details
The Education and Training Lead will be accountable to the Director of Corporate Programmes and work closely with
the GMC Clinical lead and programme coordinator. The role is a full time, fixed term contract until March 2017. The
starting remuneration for this post is £40,000-£50,000 pro-rata depending on skills and experience. Secondments
will be considered.
Health & Safety
Employees must be aware of the responsibilities placed upon them under the Health & Safety at Work Act (1974), to
ensure that the agreed procedures are carried out to maintain a safe environment for employees and visitors.
Data Protection
Personal data is protected under the Data Protection Act (1999) and the post holder will ensure that it is securely
held and that the requirements of the Act are followed.
Equal Opportunities
UCLPartners is committed to equal opportunities and all people acting on its behalf must perform their duties in a
manner that supports and promotes this commitment.
Confidentiality
The confidentiality of information relating to patients/clients and staff must be safeguarded at all times in
accordance with the Information Security Policy. Disclosure to any unauthorised person or misuse or failure to
properly safeguard confidential data will be regarded as a disciplinary offence.
Person specification
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Relevant clinical or managerial qualifications plus a higher academic degree, e.g. MD/MS or PhD or evidence
of an equivalent level.
Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
Expert knowledge of the healthcare workforce and healthcare education and training.
Experience of workforce development, workforce planning and/or developing quality education in a
healthcare environment.
A good understanding of the health and social care environment, and the roles and responsibilities within it.
Relevant project / programme management qualification.
Experience of applying project and programme management techniques and tools such as PRINCE2 or
Managing Successful Projects (MSP).
Experience of establishing new governance structures.
Experience of budget management.
High emotional intelligence,
Excellent track record of engagement across of stakeholders,
Proven record of establishing constructive inter-agency partnerships.
Ability to collaborate and influence a wide range of individuals and groups in professionally based
organisations.
Ability to deliver change across traditional boundaries.
Ability to identify, define, promote, communicate and achieve clear organisational values and goals, effective
management processes and rational and timely decision making.
High quality oral and written communications skills, including the ability to articulate complex information
concisely, accurately and accessibly.
Ability to develop strong interpersonal relationships and work with a wide range of individuals.
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Ability to work calmly under pressure and manage conflicting demands, deadlines and priorities.