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Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Technology Enhanced Learning Fellow
Accepting applications until: 30-Jul-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 30-Jul-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Wansbeck General Hospital
- Address
- Woodhorn Ln, Ashington
- Town
- Ashington
- Postcode
- NE639JJ
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (40)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £37,068 - £57,570 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Medical and Dental)
Specialty
- Main area
- Education
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
Aims of the post
To deliver high quality undergraduate clinical teaching within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
To provide a broad range of educational experience to each fellow in order to progress their scholarship, teaching skills and clinical acumen.
To develop knowledge of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) equipment and opportunities in the medical education team. To deliver teaching sessions using TEL.
The post will allow the post holder sufficient independence to develop their knowledge and skills relating to TEL and its use within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust education directorate.
If the successful appointee has over four years post qualification experience, they will be appointed on Specialty Doctor 2021 Terms and Conditions.
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Principle activities within the role
- To assist in the development, co-ordination, and delivery of undergraduate teaching for students from Newcastle University across Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust at sites including, but not limited to, Hexham, North Tyneside, Wansbeck General Hospitals, Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington and community sites. The Teaching Fellow will participate in delivering and monitoring courses and clinical teaching across year 3, 4 and 5 of the Newcastle University undergraduate medical curriculum.
- To develop the teaching and educational skills of the Teaching Fellow, the post holder will be expected to register for the Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education, institution to be confirmed, with Home Fees funded by the Trust. Alternatively, a similar qualification in education may be undertaken, supported by the Trust up to the equivalent Home Fee Rate.
- To identify opportunities, develop and implement TEL sessions in the undergraduate medical education curriculum.
- To conduct a small-scale educational project, for example an audit or the development of new innovative teaching material.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Expectations from post holder
- Augment their existing clinical, educational, and intellectual skills in order to make decisions and problem solve for the benefit of the patient, students and others within the Trust
- Provide evidence-based clinical and educational practice which is robust and makes optimum use of available resources including local expertise and experience
- Develop their current interpersonal and communication skills with regards to effective collaboration and conducive to co-operation within teams
- Develop confidence and competence as a ‘beginning’ specialist in clinical, educational, and scholarly practice
- Convey enthusiasm for their specialty to undergraduate medical students
- Gain experience of teaching across curricula and within rotations
- Develop their academic and scholarship profile in their field of interest
- To work with the undergraduate teaching team and leads to identify opportunities for to embed TEL into the undergraduate medical curriculum
These commitments should approximately translate into development and delivery of new TEL opportunities and materials relating to undergraduate medical education (2 sessions per week), delivery of teaching across the undergraduate medical education curricula (6 sessions per week), professional educational development and administration (2 sessions per week), although the emphasis will vary substantially throughout the year. It may be possible to negotiate up to one session per week for clinical work within the Trust at the discretion of the Director of Undergraduate Medical Education and the relevant clinical department.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, that as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. By applying for this post, you are agreeing to Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- UK Registered medical practitioner
Desirable criteria
- Possession of MRCP or equivalent
- UK recognised qualification in education
Experience
Essential criteria
- Successful completion of Foundation Programme
- Experience of working in the NHS
- Knowledge and experience of planning and delivering an educational project
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Experience of teaching undergraduate medical students
Desirable criteria
- Experience of small group teaching
- Experience of clinical teaching
- Experience of developing educational materials in innovative ways
- Prior experience of technology enhanced learning software and/or hardware
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sakeenat Tijani
- Job title
- Education Support Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07973761887
- Additional information
Gemma Steel
Medical Education Manager
0191 293 4022
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