Job summary
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced manager with a specialist medical education knowledge to join a dynamic team and work closely with enthusiastic education leads to support undergraduate education provision within multi-site trust.
As a member of senior education team, you will oversee a delivery of high-quality, effective medical education service in line with the requirements of the Imperial College, Brunel Medical School and national standards.
The post holder will fulfil a key role leading on the development and management of the undergraduate teaching co-ordinators, working closely with undergraduate and PA leads, teaching fellows and clinical skills tutor, as well as wide range of colleagues within the department and across the whole organisation.
Ther role reports to the Head of Medical Education and works closely with Director of Clinical Studies and Director of Undergraduate Education who fulfil responsibilities of overseeing undergraduate medical education provision in the trust for one of the two medical school that currently have clinical placement provision agreements: Imperial College and Brunel Medical School. The role will also support PA Lead who oversees clinical placement provision for PA students from Brunel University London.
If you are interested to apply, please do not hesitate to reach out for an informal discussion please contactTereze Bogdanova, Head of Medical Education by phone 07970324231 or email: .
Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities for the post holder will include:
Responsible for undergraduate medical education services across the organisation, including planning, delivery, and evaluation of professional teaching activities, induction and skills training for medical students from Imperial College School of Medicine and medical and PA students from Brunel Medical School.
Provide specialist knowledge and advice and guidance on undergraduate medical education related matters for all medical and PA students and undergraduate and PA lead clinicians in the Trust.
Responsible for ensuring excellent and effective communications involving a range of professionals and organisations to ensure that education objectives and strategies are fulfilled. This involves providing and receiving complex, sensitive information to act on and communicate to others with considerable tact and caution, decision making, consultation, challenging ideas, influencing, persuading, motivating and negotiating.
To support the development and manage the implementation of UG education with guidance from the Director of Clinical Studies and Director of Undergraduate Education. This includes the development of robust systems for the on-going evaluation of teaching programmes for both training and updating clinical skills of healthcare professionals within the Trust.
About us
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
1. Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
2. St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
3. Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
4. Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential
5. Degree/ equivalent management experience
6. Good English and numerical abilities
Desirable
7. Relevant postgraduate qualification
8. Completion of project management skills course, PRINCE 2
Knowledge and experience
Essential
9. Experience of managing people
10. Preparing and writing reports
11. Up to date knowledge of Medical Education matters
12. Experience in interpretation and application of legislation, guidance and policy
13. Creation and use of administrative/ monitoring systems
14. Working on own initiative and prioritising workload
15. Financial management
16. Wide range of assessment and performance management experience
17. Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams
Skills, abilities and attributes
Essential
18. Ability to communicate with staff at all levels involving complex information
19. Good interpersonal skills with the ability to establish and maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
20. Ability to absorb and assimilate complex issues
21. Ability to analyse complex information
22. Ability to deal sensitively with staff
23. Ability to manage administrative staff
24. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
25. Strong organisational skills
26. Report writing
27. Computer literate