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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;
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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
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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.
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