Education Quality Assurance Manager (EQAMs)

The role

Are you interested in quality assuring education and training programmes for medical students, doctors in training (also known as resident doctors), and physician and anaesthesia associate students across the UK?

Would you like to work with external stakeholders and support them to deliver high quality education and training that enhances patient safety?

If so, you may be interested in joining the Quality Assurance – Monitoring and Improvement (QAMI) team, a supportive and collaborative team of 36 in the Education and Standards Directorate of the General Medical Council. 

EQAMs play a leading role in working directly with organisations such as medical schools, postgraduate deaneries, NHS Trusts and Boards and Universities to evaluate the quality of the education and training they provide – delivering a key statutory regulatory function. EQAMs work closely with our pool of education associates – experts in medical education and training, students and lay people who help us deliver our quality assurance. They also contribute to a wide range of projects and business improvement initiatives within the QAMI section and the Education and Standards Directorate. Medical education and training is continuously changing and evolving – so there’s never a dull moment!

Our EQAMs line manage 1-2 colleagues and work across a range of responsibilities, including:

• Delivering routine and reactive quality assurance activities with a specific group of education and training organisations in a defined region/country or regions/countries of the UK
• Delivering Directorate and GMC-wide projects within the QAMI team
• Working with colleagues to continuously improve and refine our processes.

The person

We are looking for someone who enjoys working with others, as the role requires frequent liaison and collaboration with QAMI colleagues, education associates and external stakeholders at education and training organisations.

You should be an excellent communicator, and be comfortable communicating messages that may sometimes be challenging to our stakeholders – with the full support of your manager and others in QAMI.

You should be able to analyse and interpret a range of quantitative and qualitative information about the quality of education and training and form judgements based on this.

A willingness to travel throughout the UK to carry out quality assurance activities will be essential. You will be required to work from the London or Manchester office, on average, one day a week.

You can find more detail on the tasks you will undertake, and the essential skills required for the role, in the job description.

How to apply for the role

If you are interested in applying for this role, please provide a CV and a supporting statement, which demonstrates your reason for applying and a summary of how you can meet the essential skills listed in the job description, provide examples where possible. Please note, applications submitted without a CV and supporting statement will be considered incomplete and not shortlisted.

We will assess the information you provide against the essential skills required for the role and let you know whether you will progress to the next stage of the recruitment process. Details on how to complete this can be found in the attached guidance document.

The benefits 

As a member of QAMI, there’ll be plenty of opportunities to develop your skills and career, including:

• Taking control of your teams’ portfolio of organisations and managing the design and delivery of quality assurance activities with those organisations
• Being the relationship owner for your portfolio of organisations, developing a positive and collaborative approach to working with them
• Leading key project and continuous improvement activity.
• Accessing a wide range of learning and development online resources and in-person training events

We work with doctors, physician associates (PAs), anaesthesia associates (AAs), those they care for and other stakeholders to support good, safe patient care across the UK. We set the standards for doctors, PAs, AAs and their educators. If there are concerns these standards may not be met or that public confidence in doctors, PAs, or AAs may be at risk, we can investigate, and take action if needed.

You’ll benefit from being part of an organisation that is genuinely committed to its people with several excellent benefits including:

• 30 days holiday with the option to buy and sell more
• A generous employer pension contribution of 15%
• Access to a range of learning and development opportunities designed to support your ongoing progression
• Hybrid and flexible working
• Attractive salary that’s reviewed annually
• Private medical insurance
• Bike lockers and shower facilities

We are happy to consider a range of flexible working options. Flexible working requests will be considered in line with the policy.

Diversity and inclusion

The GMC values diversity and has made a public commitment to processes and procedures that are fair, objective, transparent and free from discrimination. We are also committed to the Disability Confident employer scheme and support the requirements of the Disability Confident interview scheme. If you have a disability and meet the cut-off mark for the essential criteria for this role as outlined in the person specification document, you will be offered an interview.

The GMC is a charity registered in England and Wales (1089278) and Scotland (SC037750)