Clinical Fellow in Medical Education and Simulation

Job Description

Job title: Clinical Fellow in Medical Education and Simulation

Company: British Medical Journal

Job description: The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust (MYTT) is seeking highly motivated, clinically able applicants who wish to gain experience in clinical teaching, medical education and simulation to work within our highly innovative and exciting medical education team.

These posts have been specifically designed for trainees who are looking to take a 12-month break from their training, after successfully completing their FY2 year, and applicants must have some prior experience in teaching medical undergraduates. This role will enable successful appointees to develop a specialty interest in medical education.

The majority of teaching will be to undergraduate medical students, of all levels but this role will also offer the exciting opportunity to be involved with postgraduate education, in delivering teaching to foundation year 1 & 2 doctors, developing and facilitating our STR1/2DE Teaching Programmes.

These are 12-month posts, beginning in August 2024, averaging 3 days per week over the year. However, most days are worked during medical student term times with more time off over the Christmas, Easter and Summer periods.

Main duties of the job

Successful applicants will work cross-site at Pinderfields Hospital and Dewsbury District Hospital, based within the education centres.

We envisage appointees will organise regular additional clinical locum work, within MYTT, in specialties of their choice to maintain clinical competencies, provide evidence for revalidation, and gain clinical experience in individuals areas of interest. Locum work needs to be organised around the educational commitments of this post, and remain EWTD compliant, and will be remunerated at published internal locum rates.

This post is not a recognised UK training post. However, the post-holder will have an enthusiastic educational supervisor, and be supported in undertaking a wide range of CV-enhancing activities, as part of their role as a member of the medical education team.

About us

We provide care and support to over a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our workforce.

We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.

We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all applicants are treated fairly and consistently.

We are proud of our staff networks – who offer valuable guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.

We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.

Job description
Job responsibilities

Work in the medical education department will be as part of an enthusiastic, dynamic and growing team of clinicians, clinical teachers and supporting staff, with a wide breadth of experience.

MYTT is well recognised within the region as a centre for educational excellence. We have strong links with Leeds Medical School, and receive excellent feedback regarding our undergraduate teaching with MYTT one of the most popular student placements in the Yorkshire region. We have been awarded a great number of Clinical Teaching Excellence Awards, from Leeds Medical School, in recognition of this.

Clinical fellows receive simulation training, regular appraisals and support during their year in post. There are also opportunities to attend educational or professional courses. We will support clinical fellows who have significantly contributed to undergraduate educational projects to apply for Junior Doctor Developmental Clinical Teaching Excellence Awards from Leeds Medical School.

Clinical fellows will have teaching commitments on all their educational days receiving close mentoring and support to develop as teachers, and will have opportunities to add to and improve existing educational programmes.

At Pinderfields, we have excellent simulation facilities with clinical skills and simulation rooms, high-fidelity 3G SimMan manikins, medium-fidelity ALS/ SimPad manikins, and an extensive range of part-body simulators. We are currently developing a simulation suite, in the Oakwell Centre, at Dewsbury and District Hospital. Clinical fellows facilitate simulation courses for medical students from Y2-Y5, and for foundation doctors.

The wide and expanding range of clinical fellow educational activities includes:

• IMPRES5: Our innovative, progressive 8 week teaching programme for Y5 medical students, including case based learning, diagnostic teaching and simulation.
• Y4 Specialty Teaching: Clinical teaching and simulation sessions for Y4 medical students on their specialty placements: Acute & Critical Care, Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Sexual Health, and Paediatrics.
• Y3 Teaching: Tutorial, simulation, and bedside teaching in a range of specialties.
• Y2 Teaching: Skills, simulation, and bedside teaching.

• Practice OSCEs
• Post-Finals Assistantship Programmes
• Cardiac Arrest Simulation
• Virtual learning programmes
• Digital content for MYTT MESH Platform
• Pastoral support & mentorship
• Providing student feedback
• Multi-disciplinary team working
• Supporting clinical areas within area of professional interest and clinical locum work

• STR1DE: Our FY1 teaching programme, including core curriculum teaching cases, simulation, prescribing, leadership, and development of teaching skills
• STR2DE:Our new FY2 teaching programme combining clinical knowledge and educational content with post FY2 career planning

There are opportunities for clinical fellows to lead on educational activities, reflective of their key interests and objectives for the year, within the teaching programme and clinical fellows will be supported in creating new initiatives where possible.

Person Specification
GMC Registration
Essential

• Full GMC Registration with licence to practise
• GMC information MUST be provided within this application.

Management Skills
Essential

• Demonstrates intelligent and analytical approach to problem solving.
• Good time management.

Desirable

• Good organisational skills

Right to work
Essential

• Eligibility to work in the UK

Personal Attributes
Essential

• Good communication skills.
• Flexibility.
• Able to demonstrate team working
• Willingness to provide and learn all aspects of hospitals internal systems and processes and adhere to local policies
• Physically able to carry out the duties as specified in the job description and ability to evidence competencies
• Disclosure + Barring Service (DBS) Clearance

Desirable

• Has personal insight into own strengths and weaknesses.
• Ability to contribute to the development of the Trust, the Unit and its services.
• Evidence of multidisciplinary team working
• Evidence of leadership, creativity and innovation.
• Specific educational interests and evidence of educational ideas.

Qualifications
Essential

• Medical Degree from recognised medical school
• Successful FY2 ARCP outcome or equivalent
• IT experience (i.e. Microsoft Office packages)

Desirable

• Medical School Prizes
• Teaching qualification or prize

Experience
Essential

• Evidence of an enthusiastic interest in medical education.
• Evidence of delivering teaching

Desirable

• Recent experience working in UK NHS hospitals.
• Evidence of teaching on educational programmes and sessions, personally developed and presented.
• Evidence of self-directed individual educational project work.
• Evidence of clinical skills or simulation teaching
• Recent educational conferences or courses attended.
• Feedback and assessment of educational activity

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Expected salary: £43923 per year

Location: Wakefield

Job date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 07:42:52 GMT

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