The Associate Dean for Dental Foundation Training (DFT) is responsible for planning, leading, developing, managing, and overseeing DFT, ensuring an appropriate infrastructure across Wales and having regard for quality management and national guidance. The Associate Dean will work closely with the Postgraduate Dental Dean as well as the Associate Deans for Dental Core Training and Dental Specialty Training to ensure the dental training pathway is fit for the future dental workforce and services of Wales. They will focus upon ensuring successful educational outcomes and high-quality training provision leading to improved patient care and trainee safety and experience.
The post holder will be a key member of the dental postgraduate senior leadership team contributing to the strategic direction of the Dental Deanery within HEIW and the wider Medical Directorate. They will need to work autonomously leading, influencing, negotiating and gaining the support of key stakeholders in ensuring the successful provision and delivery of DFT and pathways for early careers training for dentists.
1. Provide strategic and operational leadership and expertise for the management, delivery and quality management of Dental Foundation Training (DFT) in Wales , having regard to the curriculum, national guidance and using the nationally agreed e-portfolios and associated documentation.
2. Contribute to the planning and strategic development of postgraduate dental education, ensuring that training programmes meet standards, workforce priorities and service needs, and that trainees are adequately supported to progress safely and effectively through training.
3. Undertake a national role shaping and contributing to the wider strategic development of DFT that includes working with other stakeholders on a UK basis such as COPDEND and any relevant work streams.
Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is the strategic workforce body for NHS Wales with statutory functions that include education and training, workforce planning, workforce development and transformation, leadership and succession planning, and careers. Our purpose is to develop a workforce that delivers excellent care to patients/service users and excellent population health. We are a Special Health Authority working closely with our partners; Social Care Wales, education providers, professional and regulatory bodies and Welsh Government.
HEIW’s is committed to developing an internal culture of choice. Our Values reflect our thoughts, feelings and beliefs in how we will, and will not, behave and treat others:
- Respect for All in every contact we have with others,
- Ideas that Improve: Harnessing creativity and continuously innovating, evaluating and improving,
- Together as a Team: Working with colleagues across NHS Wales and with partner organisations.
HEIW received the HPMA Award for Employee Engagement in 2019.
What you can expect:
- a corporate induction and 90 day Welcome itinerary,
- compassionate leadership,
- a meaningful values based performance appraisal process,
- the opportunity to impact upon health and social care services and the lives and wellbeing of the people of Wales.
Many of our colleagues and stakeholders have commented on the buzz and atmosphere we create by working together as “One HEIW Team”. Do you want to join that team?
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
