Job overview
The Department of Postgraduate Medical & Dental Education (PGMDE), on behalf of King’s College Hospital (KCH), has overall responsibility for ensuring that the provision of educational & training for medical students and postgraduate doctors & dentists at King’s, and across the Sector, meets the educational standards prescribed by the commissioners.
PGMDE provides medical education to all medical students, junior doctors and dentists and faculty development to their trainers, as well as communicating medical educational matters to all Divisions across the Trust, partner organisations King’s College London Medical School and Health Education England.
Particular emphasis is on the need to ensure that all staff recognise their responsibility to deliver services in a high quality, courteous, user focused manner, maintaining confidentiality at all times.
Main duties of the job
To support the Band 3 PGMDE Administrative Assistant in providing administrative support for a wide range of education and training programmes across the sites, including maintaining quality assurance information on the relevant systems.
To contribute to the smooth running of the Education Centre, including processing room booking requests and room set up, in line with the agreed policies and procedures.
To be the main administrative point of contact for internal and external visitors to the centre.
To assist other members of the PGMDE team with their workload when required. This to also include typing, photocopying, minute taking, filing and general administrative tasks.
To assist with the preparation of any relevant documentation to support contract quality assurance and contract monitoring reporting and visits.
To support the Band 3 PGMDE Administrative Assistant to undertake the allocation of lockers and ID badges.
To support inductions and teaching events, this will include ensuring that registers and feedback forms are available and collected after each session.
Working for our organisation
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.