The Deanery

Healthcare leaders and managers are at the forefront of delivering future system change and are required to work in increasingly complex environments. This requires a sophisticated set of insights and skills, many of which are grounded in management and leadership domains. Traditionally many clinical leaders tended to find themselves in management positions by default, with few formal opportunities provided for personal development in the competencies of management or leadership and very little succession planning.

The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and the Academy of Royal Colleges have produced the Medical Leadership Competency Framework (2010) which sets out the rationale and a framework of competences to enable doctors at all levels to become more actively involved in the planning, delivery and transformation of health services (2010, p2). Many Speciality School training competences now include leadership and management competencies.

There are defined benefits to all stakeholders to collaborating in the provision of posts in Clinical Leadership and Management. They will derive demonstrable benefit in the form of improved performance of trainees and the management of identified management projects. The trainees will participate in a unique opportunity and will enhance their career prospects and potential to engage in senior clinical and clinical academic posts.

To:

• gain practical and academic experience in medical leadership from local experts in the field
• build a network of expert contacts with medical and NHS management leaders
• enhance skills and competencies that are essential for future medical leaders
• develop competencies relevant to the domains defined in the MLCF
• develop and deliver a specialty or management driven project that is relevant to the specific needs of the NHS
• complete an accredited academic leadership qualification

To achieve these aims the post will be based at host institutions where a live project aligned to these aims will be led and managed by the post holder. In addition the post holder will attend an academic programme.

Trust Posts

The following Trusts currently host these posts.

• Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
• Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
• Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Deanery/School Posts

Yorkshire and the Humber Deanery have created the following Clinical Leadership & Management opportunities in the Postgraduate School of Medicine, Postgraduate School of Obstetrics and Postgraduate School of Surgery. 

• Postgraduate School of Medicine
• Postgraduate School of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
• Postgraduate School of Surgery.

Current Clinical Leadership Fellows in Yorkshire and Humber are keen to support one another through both regular face to face meetings and electronic means. To network via e-mail please subscribe to the YHCLF e-mailing list by clicking on the thumbnail:

And here's a summary of future meetings: