Simulation Teaching Fellow

Aims of the post

To provide a broad range of educational experience to each fellow to progress their scholarship, teaching skills and clinical understanding, whilst they deliver high-quality undergraduate clinical teaching within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

In addition to the above, the post will allow the post holder sufficient independence to develop their area of interest within medical education and to study towards a recognised teaching qualification.

If the successful appointee has over four years post-qualification experience, they will be appointed on Specialty Doctor 2021 Terms and Conditions.

To assist in the development, coordination, and delivery of Trust-wide undergraduate medical education and simulation-based teaching at DASH, the Trust’s simulation base at Wansbeck General Hospital. The Teaching Fellow will participate in delivering and monitoring simulation-based teaching for a range of medical, nursing and allied professionals and also for undergraduate medical students.

To assist in the development, coordination, 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 years 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 Clinical 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 carry out a small-scale educational project, for example, an audit or the development of new innovative teaching material.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus some 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.

Expectations from post-holder

Augment their existing clinical, educational and intellectual skills 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 cooperation within teams

Develop confidence and competence as a ‘beginning’ specialist in clinical, educational and scholarly practice

Convey enthusiasm for their speciality to undergraduate medical students

Gain experience in teaching across curricula and within rotations

Develop their academic and scholarship profile in their field of interest

To work with the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Fellow to expand and create TEL projects in education within the Trust Medical Education and the relevant clinical department

These commitments should approximately translate into teaching medical students and delivery of simulation sessions (five sessions per week), development of new opportunities and materials (two sessions per week) professional educational development (two sessions), and administration/ project work (one session), 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