Clinical Teaching Fellow
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Job summary
The Medical Education Department is responsible for ensuring the delivery and quality management of education and training for approximately 1800 Doctors (doctors in training and locally employed doctors) placed across all specialities within the Trust.
The post holder will work as part of a team of 3 Postgraduate Clinical Teaching Fellows (Medical or Surgical), involved in the development and delivery of interactive teaching session for core curriculum teaching programmes for all Doctors.
The post holder will support the development of a teaching VLE (virtual learning environment) and ensure all Medical Education online learning packages, including Medical Induction are up to date and evidence based. They will also be required to support the Postgraduate Medical Education teaching leads in the development of new teaching innovations e.g. registrar shadowing.
This post will offer excellent organisational and direct teaching experience at the Postgraduate level along with the opportunity to work towards a qualification in Medical Education.
This position would be an ideal career opportunity for a doctor who has completed Core Training and is awaiting entry into a specialist training programme.
This position will work 80% of the role within Postgraduate Medical Education, and 20% of the role working within a Speciality (Clinical Environment / Department) to maintain your clinical competencies.
Main duties, tasks & skills required
It is expected that 80% of the post holder’s time will be given to their educational responsibilities which include:
To support Postgraduate Medical Education by providing direct teaching to doctors. This would be in the form of lectures or small group seminar work but also via structured bedside teaching or drop in clinics.
To ensure all learning materials, doctors handbooks as well as medical induction content are up to date.
To lead on the development and implementation of interactive teaching and learning opportunities for doctors.
To support clinical or surgical skills teaching to
doctors in close collaboration with the Clinical Skills team.
To support the Simulation Faculty with high-fidelity simulation training to doctors. All the post holders will be trained as Simulation Faculty.
To act as the clinical co-ordinator for any PACES or mock PACES hosted by the Trust. To lead on the identification and recruitment of suitable patients for these examinations, and to either examine or attend the exams to take care of the patients and support the examiners.
To support the Postgraduate Medical Education teaching leads in the development of new teaching innovations e.g. registrar shadowing.
To work closely with the Postgraduate Medical Education teaching leads to audit, develop and improve the teaching offered by the Trust. This may be through an audit or piece of research into the teaching activities.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their ‘whole self’ to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
To work closely with the Postgraduate Medical Education teaching leads to provide the required feedback through the HEE Quality Assurance process.
To work closely with the Postgraduate administration team to ensure co-ordination of all teaching programmes runs smoothly.
To be prepared to troubleshoot or stand in should some teaching be cancelled at the last minute.
To provide support and advice to doctors who are involved in teaching Medical Students and Physician Associate students.
To provide pastoral and mentoring support to doctors and to complete a Mental Health First Aid course
To undertake some form of formal training in Medical Education and teaching methods. Places are held on the University of Birmingham PG Certificate of Medical Education course for all the Clinical Teaching Fellows associated with their Medical School. It is expected that you will attend this course and this will be supported through leave and course fees by the Trust
The remaining 20% of the post holder’s time should be used to ensure that clinical practice is kept up-to-date and to undertake a programme of continued professional development. The nature of this will be negotiated with the successful candidates. This is arranged to fit around the Postgraduate teaching responsibilities.
The post holder would also be expected to:
Support local induction for doctors within Specialities
Signpost and support new medical and medical student starters within Specialities
Support departmental teaching and doctor forums
Be an advocate for Medical Education within specialities
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
Medical Degree from a recognised university
GMC registration
Evidence of achievement of foundation competencies in line with GMC standards / Good Medical Practice
Eligibility to live and work in the UK
Postgraduate Educational Qualification or willingness to work towards
Experience of undergraduate and postgraduate educational delivery
Experience of teaching in a multi-professional setting
Experience
Essential
Sound understanding of the role of non-technical skills and human factors in improving patient care and the clinical practice.
Knowledge around Audit & monitoring standards
Evidence of supporting and training others in the clinical environment
Participating in and implementing change
Delivery of formal and informal teaching sessions
Understanding of the regulation of healthcare and education
Ability to populate and use excel and other IT systems
Clear understanding of learning methodologies and implementations
Experience of working within the UK Health Care System
Additional Criteria
Essential
Effective leadership and team working skills.
Capacity to work effectively under pressure and remain objective in highly emotive or pressurised situations. Awareness of own limitations and when to ask for help.
Demonstrates effective judgement and decision-making skills.
Effective written and verbal communication skills and proven ability to communicate in a complex environment.
Ability to prioritise and manage time effectively.
Information Technology skills. Competence with basic office package and understanding of the modality of simulation and technology enhanced education.
Proven ability to develop and implement new initiatives. (educational programmes or service developments)
Ability to demonstrate a basic understanding of clinical education issues facing the organisation.
Ability to think creatively and identify emergent clinical solutions.
Ability to demonstrate an in-depth understanding and knowledge of current clinical practice.
Clinically credible within a specialised area and demonstrates an ability to work with a multitude of front-line staff, working within your scope of practice
High level of work organisation, self-motivation, and drive for improvement.
Personal resilience in dealing with frequent distractions, interruptions, and challenging situations.
Ability to maintain confidentiality at all times.
Ability to build effective working relationships across a range of health care providers, staff and other organisations.
Ability to work semi autonomously and work is supervised rather than managed.
Able to represent the trust professionally at local / national events.
Able to write / produce accurate, clear written and verbal reports and presentations.
Able to present effectively at internal / external and corporate meetings.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
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