Job summary
- Main area
- Post Graduate Medical Education
- Grade
- Junior Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time - Monday - Friday - 09:00 - 17:00
- Job ref
- 343-MED-771
- Employer
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Epsom & St Helier Hospital
- Town
- Carshalton
- Salary
- £49,909 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Post Graduate Clinical Education Fellow
Junior Clinical Fellow
"At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values"
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values
Job overview
The successful candidate will be required to work 1.0WTE support training recovery programmes across Epsom and St Helier with 1 day clinical in a specialty of choice and 0.5 day dedicated to delivery of leadership programmes to promote leadership development and collaborative working across the healthcare system. The remaining 0.4 WTE (2 days) will be working Training Recovery and Medical Education projects or clinically in the successful applicants chosen speciality.
Main duties of the job
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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Clinical day |
Foundation year 1 training improvement |
Foundation year 2 training improvement |
Leadership – supervisor training/LEEP etc. |
PGCert in Medical Education |
Working for our organisation
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
KEY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:
This role will include:
Foundation Years 1&2 Training Quality Improvement
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Organise and administrate the weekly core teaching programme for foundation doctors
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Attending Local Faculty Group meetings for both F1 and F2.
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Attend the Foundation ARCPs for both the F1s and F2s.
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Attend the Junior Doctors Forum and play an active role contributing information regarding wellbeing and issues related to staffing in some placements.
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Conduct elections for the committee positions on the Junior Doctors Forum earlier in the year.
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Speak to trainees on the wards and gather information to feedback to the Foundation TPDs for training quality control.
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Assist the Foundation Training Programme Directors, with feedback and findings from the GMC Survey.
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Provide pastoral and portfolio-related support for foundation doctors
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Identifying and improving areas of the foundation programme requiring improvements, including liaising with clinical leads/rota co-ordinators/supervisors
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Working closely with the Foundation Training Programme Directors, Associate Director of Medical Education, Medical Education Manager, Educational Leads and Clinical Leads in the relevant departments to help understand the issues and support development of solutions, being a key link between trainees and senior Trust colleagues.
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To design and deliver specific training projects where required to support training application readiness, portfolio preparedness, career advice and wellbeing.
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Co-ordinate and facilitate F1 induction in late July/early August at the end of this post. This includes wellbeing meetings for all incoming F1s to ensure adequate support is in place
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Work with the Foundation Programme Administrator closely on any foundation programme queries
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Organise practical skills teaching for F1 and F2 doctors, working with a multiprofessional team
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Organise a careers fair for F2 doctors (October) and F1 doctors (June)
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Give teaching sessions as part of the F1 and F2 core teaching timetable on relevant topics
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Design and organise the Transition to F2 course
Supervisor training:
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Organise regular Supervisor Training days (6 per year) for ES/CSs to attend
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Teach on Supervisor Training Days
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Liaise with sponsors for these events
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Provide regular training sessions for F1/2 supervisors about he Horus portfolio
The enhance programme:
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Continue the integration of the enhance programme into the core teaching programme
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Ensure all F1/2s are aware of the enhance programme, its aims, and how to be involved
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Liaise with local professionals to assist with teaching on relevant topics
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Educate supervisors on the enhance programme and their role in delivering it
Simulation training:
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Work closely with the simulation team in developing and improving the foundation simulation sessions (half day course and transition to F2 course) as well as induction
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Attend debrief training to become faculty and be able to facilitate multi-professional simulation
Management and leadership:
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Attend monthly Medical Education Management Group Meetings with key stakeholders including the Director of Medical Education, Associate Medical Director for Research and Education, Simulation Senior Faculty, Chief Physician Associate and Senior Administrators.
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Liaise with the Chief Registrar to undertake listening events and quality improvement projects which would enhance the training experience of junior doctors in the Trust.
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Attending quality review meetings undertaken by HEE in the Medicine Department alongside key stakeholders from the Trust gaining insight into how this process works.
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Attendance at key Trust educational forums including educational management meetings, local faculty groups and the junior doctor forum - to champion quality of education and training, gather intelligence on emerging issues in real time and provide a rapid response channel to the trainees from the organisation.
Locally employed doctors:
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Provide teaching and support for LEDs on using the Horus portfolio
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Work with LED administrators to ensure that LEDs are included in all relevant teaching opportunities
Other:
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Clinical work: Contribute to clinical service provision in a speciality of choice one day a week.
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Facilitate trust values and the Book of Respect
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Completion of an appropriate PG Cert in Medical Education
Person specification
Completion of Foundation Year 1 & 2
Essential criteria
- Completion of Foundation Year 1 & 2
- Full GMC registration
- 24 Months experience working in NHS
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First Medical Degree
- Full GMC Registration
- Evidence of recent CPD
Desirable criteria
- Higher speciality qualifications Distinctions/Honours/Prizes Post Graduate Qualification
SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES FOR ROLE e.g. communication, problem solving, leadership
Essential criteria
- Experience of delivering of teaching and education. Faculty/Local and national courses.
- Excellent communicate skills with patients, relatives, GPs and nurses.
- A Team Player with the ability to work under pressure
Desirable criteria
- Experience of setting up teaching courses
Audit, QI & Research
Essential criteria
- Experience of Audit
- Experience of QI
- Experience of Research
Desirable criteria
- Publications & Presentations
Computer literate
Essential criteria
- Computer literate
- Proficient in Horus Portfolio & curriculum
- Proficient in Microsoft Suite
- Proficient in teaching using Teams platform
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Karen Saridis
- Job title
- Medical Education Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07468 716114
- Additional information
0208 296 4006
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