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Job Overview

We have 3 posts available, two at Frimley Park Hospital and one at Wexham Park Hospital.

These posts are whole time equivalent, and are joint positions funded by the Medical Education Department, Directorate of Clinical Education.

The post will involve 0.8 WTE (4 days) within the Medical Education Department carrying out the role of Clinical Teaching Fellow. This post involves carrying out various projects in education. The remaining 0.2 WTE (1 day) will be working in a sub-speciality.

We will also provide a limited study leave budget and contribute towards a medical education qualification.

Main duties of the job

Job Plan

The provisional timetable outlined below highlights the job plan. It may change by mutual agreement and can flex to include sub-speciality regional training if appropriate.

1. Monday Clinical Education
2. Tuesday Sub-Specialty
3. Wednesday Clinical Education
4. Thursday Clinical Education
5. Friday Clinical Education

You will be allocated a mentor for the duration of your post. You will meet at regular intervals to review progress in the development of your skills as an educator.

Regular contact with the Leads for the Units you are teaching to receive information about the teaching session and feedback on student engagement with teaching.

Regular contact by email or in person with the Strategic Lead for Medical Education (cross-site) in respect of all absences (leave, ill health, study leave) and expenses associated with the Fellow role.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other: Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Continuing Professional Development

Essential criteria

• Evidence of recent Education CPD

Desirable criteria

• Publication

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Medical Degree
• Full GMC registration

Desirable criteria

• Post-Graduate Qualification
• Higher Specialty Qualifications
• Evidence of Academic Excellence

Experience

Essential criteria

• 2 Years NHS Clinical Experience
• Delivering Undergraduate Education
• Organising a training programme

Desirable criteria

• 2 Years in an NHS Training Programme
• Simulation Faculty Experience

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other: Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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