Clinical Teaching Fellow in Palliative Medicine SpR
Job Description
Job summary
The post is designed to support undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. Post holders will teach medical students in both the hospital and university settings, and will have the opportunity to deliver teaching and mentorship to doctors in training. As a result, our education fellows will be involved in teaching a broad range of topics across both universities and at postgraduate level, requiring high levels of flexibility and adaptability.
Main duties of the job
We run a weekly medical education special interest group meeting, chaired in rotation by our clinical education fellows and other members of the medical education team. This is where interesting articles are projects are presented for discussion amongst the group. The post-holder will have an educational supervisor with an interest in medical education, and the benefit of the support of a member of the faculty with development of ideas for projects.
There are regular opportunities to network with education fellows outside the trust, across both universities and wider NHS trusts, as well as attendance at university education conferences. All education fellows are encouraged to attend the trust wide weekly Grand Round and present at the Medical Education Grand Round which occurs twice yearly.
About us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Job responsibilities
The nature of this post means that you will be working on site at Warwick Hospital every day. The exceptions would be occasional travel to Warwick Medical School and Buckingham Medical School, as well as to NHS partnership trusts or other SWFT sites.
Warwick Medical School and Buckingham Medical School have a range of postgraduate courses in medical education which are accessible on a modular basis, and can be used to obtain a qualification in medical education. In order to support the medical educational element of the post, the trust will make funding available to support modules to obtain a postgraduate certificate in medical education (pro-rata for less than full-time or employment periods of less than 12 months).
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Medicine degree
- Current full registration with the GMC
- Experience in palliative care
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
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Warwick Medical School C27020
Warwick
CV34 5BW
