Postgraduate Education Fellow

Site St Mary's Hospital Town London Salary £37,068 - £57,570 per annum plus London Weighting Allowance Closing 14/06/2024 23:59

Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

1 Year Fixed Term based at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

This is a new post in the Medical Education department, which will play an integral part, in developing new and supporting existing programmes to improve the quality of education in the Trust. The post also offers a broad range of exposure across the Medical Director’s office with a range of leadership opportunities available.

Main duties of the job

The priority workstreams established for postgraduate medical education for this year as a result of national and local directives have been identified as:

• · Exploring and mapping capacity for our clinical placements for medical students, developing a proposal to expand numbers and evaluate the delivery model
• · Reviewing current digital teaching technologies and explore solutions to enable education delivery to become more agile and respond to learner needs.
• · Reviewing our workforce development programmes, including CESR and core surgery equivalence, and provide support for teaching and simulation .
• · Refresh/improve the community outreach programme, working closely with the clinical lead and Imperial College London Widening Participation team.

It is anticipated that the post-holder will work closely with the Chief Registrars and Senior Specialty Trainee network, ensuring junior doctors are represented at relevant forums/committees.

Working for our organisation

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT) is committed to improving the quality of education and has a dedicated team of medical and non-medical staff responsible for delivering the medical education

strategy. Over the coming year we intend to focus on developing a program of work which supports the education and training interventions that best meet the needs of our learners, educators and patients.

This fellowship is an excellent opportunity for a junior doctor, who is interested in developing their education portfolio, to significantly develop their management skills and understanding of the operational management of medical education in a large, complex Trust. This post will allow the post-holder to develop skills in project design, management, leadership, delivery and support of teaching programmes as well as project assessment.

For an informal discussion and information regarding the post please contact:

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job responsibilities

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please refer to the Job Description attached to the advert.

Skills, Experience & Knowledge

Strong interest and involvement in medical education

Experience of developing and delivering clinical teaching/training programmes

Experience of audit

Understanding of project management principles

Awareness of current educational initiatives with regard to: patient safety, quality improvement, risk management, cross-speciality training

Experience of developing interventions to change professionals’ behaviour

Experience of report writing

Effective team working skills both as leader and team member 

Knowledge of education/training programme evaluation methodology

Understanding of education commissioning

Participation in Quality Improvement projects

Experience of leading a project team to achieve successful deliverables

Conference presentations or publications in clinical education/training

Person specification

Eduaction/Qualifications

• Eligible to enter ST3+ training in chosen specialty
• Full Royal College Membership

Experience

• Strong interest and involvement in medical education
• Experience of developing and delivering clinical teaching/training programme
• Experience of audit
• Experience of developing interventions to change professionals’ behaviour
• Experience of report writing
• Participation in Quality Improvement projects
• Experience of leading a project team to achieve successful deliverables
• Conference presentations or publications in clinical education/training

knowledge/Skills

• Understanding of project management principles
• Awareness of current educational initiatives with regard to: patient safety, quality improvement, risk management, cross-speciality training
• Strong IT skills across MS Office
• Self-motivating with a flexible approach to work and ability to work independently
• Able to manage simultaneous workstreams and deliver to deadlines
• Good writing skills, able to write in different formats for a range of audiences
• Methodical and organised in managing information and processes
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work in partnership with others across the range of professions and levels of seniority
• Knowledge of education/training programme evaluation methodology
• Understanding of education commissioning

IMPORTANT:

We are conducting interviews virtually and face to face. If the interview is virtual we require candidates to have the camera on during the interview.

Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and control procedures within NWLP such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview about flexibility you may need.

Please ensure you check your emails regularly throughout the recruitment process.

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Danielle Bennett Job title General Manager/Head of Medical Education Email address