Job summary
- Main area
- Psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Registrar
- Contract
- 12 months (1 year fixed term fellowship role)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 334-COR-7662812-JA
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Ortus
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £52,656 (CT/MT03) £65,048 (ST4-5 /MT04) £73,992 (ST6-8 /MT05) pa
- Closing
- 07/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Fellow in Medical Education
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Registrar
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
As a Fellow in Medical Education at Maudsley Learning, you will join a multi-professional team providing a high performing and fast paced yet supportive environment in which you would be supported to develop professionally while contributing actively to the goals and mission of Maudsley Learning.
You will learn how to design, develop, deliver, market, assess and research around simulation-based education and other trainings developed by Maudsley Learning and gain an unrivalled educational experience.
This is a fixed term 12 months full time post for a Fellow in Medical Education, designed for a Specialty Trainee (years 4-5) in psychiatry to undertake as an Out-of-Programme Experience (OOPE) from their training rotation.
The post holder will contribute to the on-going development and delivery of mental health simulation-based education (SBE) and other training courses at Maudsley Learning. As part of this remit the successful post-holder will ensure the on-going high-quality design, development and delivery of these trainings. They will help lead the rollout and on-going assessment of our evolving programme of multidisciplinary courses. This post would offer the post holder the opportunity to develop innovations to support clinical education and workplace practice, to work indirectly in care delivery and to gain an unrivalled educational experience.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work closely with the Simulation Clinical Lead for Maudsley Learning and Simulation faculty. The main duties of the post holder will be to:
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Design, develop and deliver a series of simulation-based-education and other mental health training programmes and courses in collaboration with a range of stakeholders, including comissioners.
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Evaluate the impact of courses and training programmes delivered, including presentation of results at relevant conference and submission for publication.
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Contribute to the writing bids and reports of completed training projects.
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Contribute to the development of the simulation team, attending relevant meetings and events.
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Contribute to the project management of courses and programmes .
Communications and Working Relationships:
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Simulation Clinical Lead
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Maudsley Learning and Simulation faculty
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Head of Operations
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Research & Development Team
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Sales & Marketing Team
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Managing Director
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Business & administration team
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External stakeholders and partners
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Technology Enhanced Learning Team
Working for our organisation
About South London and Maudsley:
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre.
About Maudsley Learning:
Maudsley Learning is an innovative workforce development team within South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, part of one of the world’s most renowned mental healthcare organisations. Our mission is to improve people’s lives through the highest quality mental health and wellbeing education.
We design and deliver training programmes and education services to meet the continuing professional development needs of individuals in the healthcare workforce, but also to many others including colleagues in social services, policing, schools and in the private sector.
We deliver high quality learning experiences in both traditional and innovative educational modalities thanks to our expertise and agility. Our access to a range of subject matter expertise is second to none via the global centres of excellence in South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) and our university partners, the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
1. Course delivery & development
• To oversee and be responsible for the successful roll out of training courses and programmes.
• To work closely with the clinical lead, head of operations and other staff to ensure smooth delivery and co-ordination with the centre’s medical and non-medical faculty to ensure debriefing occurs in the most educationally valuable way possible.
• To oversee and to work in collaboration with faculty colleagues, and be responsible for the design of a range of scenarios so that a large portfolio of different interventions can be offered to our clinical teams.
• To oversee and be responsible for ensuring high quality debrief and teaching processes are undertaken by the centre’s faculty. This will require close working with the clinical lead to ensure consistency across simulation debriefing.
• To be part of the Maudsley Learning team which is continually striving to improve and to innovate to provide high quality education services to meet the organisations overall aims.
2. Business development and income generation:
• To work with the simulation clinical lead and other modality leads in the development of business plans for new education and training programmes and bids.
• To be first line of contact and to provide clear verbal and written information for agencies wishing to understand more about mental health and physical health simulation scenarios.
• To be part of the on-going development of the simulation team within the Trust and to attend and actively contribute to the operational management of the team and to work for its success.
• Contribute to the Maudsley Learning business planning process by providing analysis and support.
3. Project Management
• Work with the simulation clinical lead, research & development team, head of sales, headof operations and others to set up and maintain programme controls, timelines for deliverable projects.
• Actively monitor project timelines and support key stakeholders to ensure adherence and progress to pre-agreed milestones.
• Attend weekly team meetings to support the review of projects deliverables and monitoring.
4. Stakeholder management and communications
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Primary Degree in Medicine
- Postgraduate Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of post-graduate study in medical education (A/I)
Experience
Essential criteria
- An active and proven interest in medical education
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivering simulation training
Knowledge/ Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent oral communication skills to facilitate trainings, elicit challenging conversation in an engaging and constructive way with a diverse professional group
- Strong planning and organisational skills with the ability to work independently
Desirable criteria
- Academic writing skills and communication skills to convincingly present to a diverse audience
- Work to deadlines, sometimes under pressure
- Sophisticated team player motivated by achieving joint aims and objectives
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Kirsten Howson
- Job title
- Faculty and Simulation Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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