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Clinical Educator Fellow

Employer
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Reading
Salary
£51,017 to £58,398 a year per annum
Closing date
7 Jun 2023

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We have the opportunity to offer 5 Clinical Teaching Fellow posts in Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Urology, Emergency Medicine and ICU. These posts are a fantastic opportunity for candidates to work as clinical teaching fellows (40%) while gaining clinical experience (60%).

The teaching posts include a fully funded place on the Postgraduate Certificate in Health Education at University of Reading.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant must have a license to practice from the GMC, and ideally completed core training and hold MRCP/ MRCOG/ MRCS. Applicants with at least 2 years NHS post-graduate experience and a strong interest in medical education will be considered

40% of the post holder's time will be spent on teaching activities with the remaining 60% of time spent doing clinical work, including relevant on call rota.

All teaching fellows will have access to a tutor who will provide mentorship with educational projects as well as an educational supervisor.

The post will be tailored to the successful applicant and their specific interests

We encourage development of teaching skills and also publication of work and projects. Previous teaching fellows have successfully presented work at national and international meetings

Collaboration and shared teaching opportunities for different groups of students is encouraged and organising postgraduate sessions will also be welcomed by the department.

About us

The Royal Berkshire Hospital hosts students from both the University of Oxford and the University of Southampton, in addition to Physician Associate students from the University of Reading. From September 2024, the Trust will also welcome its first cohort of students from Brunel Medical School. These posts have been established to enhance the teaching of students and maintain the Royal Berkshire Hospital's reputation as a centre of excellence for medical education.

The PG Cert course at UOR is aimed at staff from across the Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Integrated Care Service and includes doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals allied to medicine who have a teaching role and/or responsibility for the training, development and/or appraisal of other healthcare professionals.

There are three modules over the course of the year
  • The self and healthcare education
  • Teaching and learning in healthcare education
  • Working with others in healthcare education

Each module is comprised of both independent learning and taught content with three taught days per module. A total of nine taught days are provided across the year.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for this post for a detailed description of the main responsibilities of the post.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MB ChB, MBBS or equivalent
  • Full GMC Registration


Desirable

  • MCEM / MRCP / MRCS or equivalent


Experience

Essential

  • Broad Medical Experience
  • Previous experience of working within the NHS (2 years)


Desirable

  • Minimum of four months experience in Emergency Medicine or Acute Medicine
  • Post registration experience of working in other specialties relevant to emergency medicine, intensive care medicine and anaesthesia


Ability & Knowledge

Essential

  • Good basic and wide-ranging knowledge of clinical medicine
  • Good communication skills


Desirable

  • Ability to teach and enthuse other medical staff


Motivation

Essential

  • Strong desire to offer quality care to individual patients
  • Strong interest in delivering high quality medical education
  • Punctuality with good time management


Desirable

  • Experience of delivering medical education including experience of developing teaching programme.


Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Berkshire Hospital

Craven Road

Reading

RG1 5AN

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