Job summary
To provide a broad range of educational experience to each fellow in order to progress their scholarship, teaching skills and clinical acumen, whilst they deliver high quality undergraduate clinical teaching within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
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.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
1. To assist in the development, coordination, and delivery of Trust-wide undergraduate medical education and simulation-based teaching at DASH, the Trust's simulation base at Wansbeck General Hospital. The Teaching Fellow will participate in delivering and monitoring simulation-based teaching for a range of medical, nursing, and allied professionals and undergraduate medical students.
2. To assist in the development, coordination, and delivery of undergraduate teaching for students from Newcastle University across Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust at sites including, but not limited to, Hexham, North Tyneside, Wansbeck General Hospitals, Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington and community sites. The Teaching Fellow will participate in delivering and monitoring courses and clinical teaching across years 3, 4 & 5 of the Newcastle University undergraduate medical curriculum.
3. To develop the teaching and educational skills of the Teaching Fellow, the post holder will be expected to register for the Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical 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.
4. To carry out a small-scale educational project, an audit or the development of new innovative teaching material.
About us
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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
5. Provide evidence-based clinical and educational practice which is robust and makes optimum use of available resources including local expertise and experience.
6. Develop their current interpersonal and communication skills with regards to effective collaboration and conducive to cooperation within teams
7. Develop confidence and competence as a beginning specialist in clinical, educational, and scholarly practice.
8. Convey enthusiasm for their speciality to undergraduate medical students.
9. Gain experience in teaching across curricula and within rotations.
10. Develop their academic and scholarship profile in their field of interest.
11. To work with the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Fellow to expand and create TEL projects in education within the Trust Medical Education and the relevant clinical department.
These commitments should approximately translate into teaching medical students and delivery of simulation sessions (5 sessions per week), development of new opportunities and materials (2 sessions per week) professional educational development (2 sessions), and administration/ project work (1 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 Medical Education and the relevant clinical department.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
12. UK Registered medical practitioner
Desirable
13. Possession of higher degree or qualification (, MSc, MA, MRCP or other UK recognised qualification in education
Experience
Essential
14. Successful completion of Foundation Programme or equivalent
15. At least 2 years of working post-qualification
16. Substantial clinical service delivery within the last 12 months
17. Knowledge and experience of planning an educational project
18. Experience of teaching undergraduate medical students
19. Experience of small group teaching
20. Experience of clinical teaching
Other
Essential
21. Ability to travel across all Trust sites