Career Advisory Service - NHS Leadership Academy - NHS/SoEPS/19.478

NHS South of England Procurement Services (SoEPS), acting on behalf of the NHS Leadership Academy (the Commissioner) are commencing a tender for the provision of a Career Advisory Service.

Aim To establish a career planning and advisory service for clinicians complete with fully worked up processes, materials and resources that will be embedded within a range of offers provided by local Academy teams.

Purpose • To enable aspiring clinical leaders to have a better understanding of their career path to take a more planned approach to their careers, helping them to ensure they end up in the best possible roles for them, their skills, abilities and values. • To equip aspiring clinical leaders with the tools and resources to given themselves the best possible chance of securing an executive role and successfully navigate the board appointment process. • Ultimately to increase the proportion of clinicians in senior executive roles.

Scope This support would be initially targeted and piloted at those who are currently operating at one below board level with a clinical background, Deputy Medical Director or Director of Nursing, Clinical Directors, Band 9 and Band 8d nursing, medical and other senior clinical leaders.

The maximum value of this contract is £80,000 exclusive of any applicable VAT.

Bidders are invited to access the procurement documentation at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning Please access the ITT procurement documents for further information.

The deadline for submission of completed ITT submissions is Friday 08 March 2019 at 12:00pm (midday).

Late submissions will not be accepted.

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Therefore, please submit in good time prior to the deadline date and time.

Project title: Career Advisory Service - NHS Leadership Academy - NHS/SoEPS/19.478, please access the ITT for all documents.

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