Job summary
- Main area
- Administration
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 8 months (Until 31st December 2025)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 432-HR32-25
- Employer
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ipswich Hospital
- Town
- Ipswich
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/04/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 28/04/2025
Employer heading

Faculty Administrator - Speciality Training
NHS AfC: Band 4
We are one of the largest NHS organisation in England. Our scale provides exciting opportunities for development, innovation, research, education and training.
Talk to us about our range of flexible working opportunities, apprenticeships and staff benefits
Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is at the heart of all we do; and it forms part of the ESNEFT’s core activities. The Trust operates and relies on everyone treating each other with dignity and respect, to receive equitable and fair treatment in the implementation of Policies, Procedures and in its Practices, to foster positive work relationships, and finally to act with integrity as a professional within ESNEFT as well as a representative of the NHS as a whole. The EDI Agenda reflects the Trust values such as Optimistic, Appreciative and Kind. In line with the NHS Long Term Plan, People Plan, People Promise and a Model Employer intrinsic in the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Agenda, we consistently strive to improve, to take the learning into Action for a better ESNEFT.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Job overview
Working in a fast paced Medical Education team, you will play a key part in ensuring our trainees have a positive experience working and training here at ESNEFT.
This role is a key link in evidencing educational governance in the Trust and supporting educators and trainees to progress in their chosen field.
Working closely with speciality tutors, the medical education team, clinical leads and trainees, this is a rewarding and interactive role, involving organising events and hands on training sessions.
If you would like more information before applying, please email [email protected]
Main duties of the job
- Work independently, autonomously and act extensively on own initiative to co-ordinate, organise and deliver a responsive, innovative and high quality service to support local service areas to make improvements in both the learning environment and quality of learning for trainee doctors across Ipswich Hospital and Colchester Hospital.
- Working with the Medical Education department, ensure the quality and governance processes of medical education set down by the GMC and Royal Colleges are adhered to.
- Ensuring that trainee doctors are appropriately supported in their learning by liaising with local department leads, Clinical Supervisors, College Tutors and Educational Supervisors as required.
- Working with College Tutors and Training Programme Directors, organise and advertise relevant teaching events, weekly/monthly teaching sessions, timetables and HUB days, workshops and learning events. Manage any correspondence relating to these events and programmes, including budget keeping.
- Build upon the relationship between the Trust and the Royal Colleges.
- To organise, attend and take the notes and action log for Faculty Boards and other meetings, in an accurate and concise manner - ensure they are typed, distributed, and stored, in accordance with group Terms of Reference and Trust policies and procedures.
Working for our organisation
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
Find out about living and working here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to A level standard or equivalent, including Maths and English GSCE to A-C/4 to 9 standard
Experience
Essential criteria
- 2 years administrative experience
Desirable criteria
- Working in an NHS environment
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and proven experience of Microsoft Word and Excel
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the Doctor education system
Personal Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to deal appropriately with potentially sensitive and confidential information
- Ability and experience of prioritising workloads, working within strict guidelines and deadlines/timescales and undertaking tasks under own initiative
- Ability to communicate with all people
- Good time management and negotiation skills
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kevin Hartwell
- Job title
- Medical Education Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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