To deliver high quality undergraduate clinical teaching within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
To provide a broad range of educational experience to each fellow in order to progress their scholarship, teaching skills and clinical acumen.
In addition to the above, the post will allow the post holder sufficient independence to develop their own area of interest within medical education and to study towards a recognised teaching qualification.
If the successful appointee has over four years post qualification experience, they will be appointed on Specialty Doctor 2021 Terms and Conditions.
1. To assist in the development, co-ordination, and delivery of undergraduate teaching at Hexham, North Tyneside, Wansbeck General Hospitals and at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington. The Teaching Fellow will participate in delivering and monitoring courses and clinical teaching across year 3, 4 and 5 of the Sunderland Medical School MBChB curriculum.
2. To develop the teaching and educational skills of the Teaching Fellow, the post holder will be expected to register for the Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education, institution to be confirmed, with Home Fees funded by the Trust. Alternatively, a similar qualification in education may be undertaken, supported by the Trust up to the equivalent Home Fee Rate.
3. To support the design, development, implementation and review of simulation and technology enhanced learning teaching sessions.
4. To contribute to the organisation and delivery of undergraduate medical examinations and assessments.
5. To contribute to other teaching where appropriate.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Augment their existing clinical, educational, and intellectual skills to make decisions and problem solve for the benefit of the patient, students, and others within the Trust.
Provide evidence-based clinical and educational practice which is robust and makes optimum use of available resources including local expertise and experience.
Develop their current interpersonal and communication skills with regards to effective collaboration and conducive to co-operation within teams
Develop confidence and competence as a ‘beginning’ specialist in clinical, educational, and scholarly practice.
Convey enthusiasm for their specialty to undergraduate medical students.
Gain experience of teaching across curricula and within blocks.
The commitments to the post should approximately translate into teaching of medical students (seven sessions per week), professional educational development (two sessions), and administration/ project work (one session), although the emphasis will vary substantially throughout the year. It may be possible to negotiate up to one session per week for clinical work within the Trust at the discretion of the Director of Undergraduate Clinical Studies and the relevant clinical department.
This advert closes on Tuesday 9 Jul 2024
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