Job overview
Applications are invited for an exciting opportunity to work within a dynamic and innovative service. It will see you working in the Medical Education department, delivering teaching, training and simulation to medical students, foundation trainees, junior doctors and wider multi-professional clinical workforce.
This post will give the successful applicant the prospect to continue to develop their teaching and simulation experience and skills.
Main duties of the job
The purpose of this post is to support teaching and simulation education (as required) across our (diverse) trust. Principally this applies to supporting the delivery of the junior doctors and medical students programme, in accordance with their curriculum. Further delivery opportunities (including externally / regionally / nationally) will be directed by the DME and Simulation Lead. The trust currently delivers regular sessions running either ‘in situ’ (anywhere across the Trust) or based within the newly created clinical teaching unit.
This post has been designed primarily for ST1 (or ‘F3’) level trainees (although this is not a training post). We welcome applicants to this post who are undertaking clinical commitments.
Working for our organisation
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King’s Lynn is located near some of the most beautiful scenery in the UK, along the north Norfolk coast, and not far from Sandringham House.
We provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based healthcare services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire.
We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers, approximately 530 beds, and a helipad for air ambulances. We work with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services, including as part of regional partnership and network models of care, such as the trauma network.
In February 2022 the significant progress that has been made at QEH was recognised by the Care Quality Commission who rated the Trust as ‘Good’ in all of the core services they inspected. They recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details about this post. please see the attached job description and personal specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
2. Satisfactory completion of F1/F2 post or equivalent
Desirable criteria
3. Distinctions, scholarships, prizes
4. 12 Months continuous experience within the NHS
5. Additional degrees e.g. MSc, PhD
6. Formal teaching qualification (PGCE or equivalent)
7. Simulation Instructor ‘Train the Trainers’ course of similar
Knowledge & Skills
Desirable criteria
8. Knowledge of UK health systems, practices and values; awareness of current issues in the NHS
9. Understands the importance and impact of information systems in health care
10. Ability to practice evidence-based medicine
11. Evidence of continuous professional development
Teaching, audit and research
Essential criteria
12. Understanding of the basic principles of audit and clinical governance
13. Experience of medical simulation as candidate or instructor
14. Demonstrates an understanding of principles of education
15. Shows an approach on critical enquiry based and evidenced based practice
16. Demonstrates a commitment to the delivery of high quality education
17. Encourages ongoing learning and an educative culture, both for self and others
18. Is self-reflective and open to peer-review
19. Evidence of previous involvement in medical education teaching or instructing role
Desirable criteria
20. Evidence of previous publications/presentations
21. Shows evidence of prior experience with quality improvement/ audit/research
22. Understand the responsibilities of being an employee of the NHS
Personal attributes and experience
Desirable criteria
23. Evidence of leadership qualities
Applications are welcome from anyone who meets the criteria specified in the person specification regardless of age, gender, disability, race ,ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances. Only those applicants who demonstrate in the application form how they meet the criteria in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who possess and can demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our core values (attached).
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We offer our staff a wide range of benefits and support including:
24. Flexible working opportunities
25. Free counselling service
26. NHS Pension scheme
27. Access to Wagestream - an app-based service that provides instant earned wage access*
28. Support and advice for staff affected by either Peri-Menopause or Menopause
29. Free parking for all staff until March 2024
30. Opportunity to join our Staff Networks which include: Armed Forces, REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Culture Heritage), Disability and LGBTQ+ networks.
We are committed to being a menopause friendly employer.
Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role asap.
Admin & Clerical staff may be required to act as Loggists for a major incident.
Everyone within the Trust has or will shortly need to have a minimum level of skill for computer literacy for their day-to day- work as we become more digitally mature. Therefore all staff shoulld be computer literate.
Team QEH are one of the most research-active organisations for our size in the UK, recruiting 2,188 in 20/21 and ranked 10/16 in the Eastern Region. We have a wide-ranging and diverse portfolio of clinical studies and also recognised as one of the fastest trusts in the country from set up to recruitment.