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DN513909 - Leadership and management training to trainee doctors across all 
specialties Consecutive 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 

1. INTRODUCTION 
2. BACKGROUND 
3. CONTRACT SCOPE 
4.  DETAILED REQUIREMENTS  
a. Educational outcomes 
b. Contract specification 
c.  Course dates and venues 
d. Selection criteria 
5. CONTRACT MANAGEMENT 
6.  SUSTAINABILITY   
7. CONTRACT PERIOD  
 
 
 
 

 
1. Introduction 
Health Education England  (HEE) exists for one reason only; to support the delivery 
if excellent healthcare and health improvement to the patients and public of England 
by ensuring that the workforce of today and tomorrow has the right numbers, skills, 
values and behaviours, at the right time and in the right place. 
2. Background  
This specification is focused on the delivery of leadership and management training 
to trainee doctors across all specialties. 
Leadership is a key part of doctors’ professional work regardless of specialty and 
setting. It is already a requirement of all doctors as laid out in the General Medical 
Council’s (GMC) publications Good Medical Practice, Tomorrow’s Doctors and also 
Management for Doctors
 
As doctors progress through their training and consolidate their skills and knowledge 
in everyday practice, they are very often the key medical person relating to patients 
and other staff, and the ones who are experiencing how day-to-day healthcare works 
in action.  They are uniquely placed: 
 
  to develop experience in management and leadership through relationships with 
other people, departments and ways of working, 
  to understand how the patient experiences healthcare, and how the processes 
and systems of delivering care can be improved 
 
For these reasons, leadership and management training is an essential component 
of the training curricular for all Specialty Schools and junior doctors are required to 
complete a course in the later part of their training, before they achieve their 
Certificate of Completion of Training. 
 
3. 
Scope of the Contract 
HEE working across Yorkshire and the Humber are responsible for providing 
Leadership and Management courses to junior medical staff in the Yorkshire region.  
Leadership and Management courses should be delivered across the year between 
1st April 2021 and 31st March 2022 and should each be 3 days long.   
This contract will be awarded for a 1-year period, and providers are invited to bid for 
the whole provision, or part of it. 
4. Detailed 
Requirements 
a. Educational outcomes 
On completion of this course, delegates will be able to; 

 

1.  Demonstrate an understanding of why leadership and team working are 
important in their role as a clinician 
2.  Understand why the NHS promotes, inclusive, kind and compassionate 
leadership 
3.  Show an awareness of their leadership responsibilities as a clinician and 
understand why effective clinical leadership is central to safe and effective care 
4.  Demonstrate an understanding of a range of leadership principles, approaches 
and techniques and be able to apply them in practice 
5.  Demonstrate appropriate leadership behaviours and an ability to adapt these to 
improve engagement and outcomes 
6. Appreciate their leadership style and its impact on others 
7.  Actively participate and contribute to the work and success of a team (show an 
awareness of appropriate followership) 
8.  Think critically about decision making, reflecting on decision making processes 
and explain those decisions to others in an honest and transparent way 
9.  Supervising, challenging, influencing appraising and mentoring colleagues and 
peers to enhance performance and support development  
10. Critically appraise the performance of colleagues, peers and systems and 
understand when to escalate concerns 
11. Promote and effectively participate in multidisciplinary and interprofessional team 
working 
12. Appreciate roles of all team members of the multidisciplinary team 
13. Promote a just, open and transparent culture 
14. Promote a culture of learning and academic and professional critical enquiry 
Taken and expanded from the General Medical Council – Generic Professional 
Capabilities Framework  

b. Contract specification 
The total cost of the specification should not exceed £30k for 1 year.  The following 
must be included; 
  Include the development of the sessions, relevant PowerPoint presentations and 
the development and printing of any materials needed for delivery of the sessions 
  Include the delivery of the sessions and any associates travel expenses for the 
facilitators 
  Provision of a platform on which to run courses, in the event of virtual delivery 
The following services are administered by HEE staff so must not be included in the 
specification: 
 Venue 
hire 
  Scheduling of courses and liaison with venues 
  Management of a delegate booking system 
 Refreshments 
 Advertising 
  Delegate certificates of completion 
 
c. Course dates/venues 

 

Courses are delivered over 3 consecutive days.  Each course has a minimum 
capacity of 18 candidates and a maximum capacity of 20 delegates. 
HEE will contract for 7 consecutive courses to be run over a 12-month period. 
*note – further course dates may be added through 2021/2022 to meet demand (via 
a consultation with the provider).  Costs for any additional dates will fall outside of 
this specification and will be paid on an individual course basis

d. Selection criteria 
The successful proposal(s) will; 
  Demonstrate that the provider has sufficient faculty with relevant and current 
experience to deliver the course 
  Confirm that they can run their course for a maximum of 20 candidates, both in a 
face to face setting and virtually 
  Demonstrate a clear understanding of the topic being delivered 
  Demonstrate how the educational outcomes set out in this specification can be 
delivered inline with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Medical Leadership 
Competency Framework 
  Demonstrate how the course can be evaluated and feedback provided 
  Include examples of similar work previously undertaken by the Provider, for 
example course manuals 
  Include examples where the provider has delivered similar teaching to trainee 
doctors  
 Incorporate 
theoretical and practical elements 
  Be relevant to medical learners 
  Provide access to learning materials and/or e-learning courses 
5. 
Contract Management and Review 
A contract review meeting will take place every 6 months between the chosen 
provider and Lead Faculty members at HEE.   
6. Contract 
Period 
 
The contract period for this workstream is 1 year, commencing from 1st April 2021 to 
31st March 2022.