Education Fellow

Job description

Job responsibilities

Background

UCLPartners works with academic and NHS partners to improve health and care through research, innovation and education for the benefit of patients and the public.

We work with partner organisations that cover a diverse population of more than six million across parts of North and East London, Essex, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. We also work across London, nationally and globally to co-create, test and implement solutions that improve health.

To implement sustainable and positive change we create and leverage clinical, academic, patient and industry networks, draw on clinical academic insights and real-world evidence to identify solutions to complex problems and support our NHS partners to become research active.

We are committed to promoting equal opportunities, celebrate and value diversity and aim to be positive role models for equality and diversity. Read more about equality, diversity and inclusion at UCLPartners here https://uclpartners.com/about-us/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/.

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Introduction – Education Team Team

It is our belief that almost health and care improvement and change require a consideration of the impact on the workforce and whether their skills, knowledge or behaviours may need to adapt. The education team at UCLPartners are experienced at designing, delivering and evaluating education programmes for healthcare innovation and research-into-practice programmes. We aim to improve health outcomes for the 6 million people living within our geography. Our education programmes are co-designed with learners or patients.

Role description

We are looking for an educator to supporting our teams and programmes develop education and workforce programmes as well as developing a training and development programme for the organisation itself. You will work across our core teams to identify their learning and development needs and codesign training programmes to meet them. You will be supported in this work by the head of education and our HR team.

You will work with our innovation and research-into-practice teams to support training and education needs of the company, teams and programmes eg with our mental health team on education programmes for new clinical roles or with our patient safety team developing implementation guidance for new innovations. Applicants will demonstrate a passion for implementation of innovation in to practice for patient benefit and patient safety. This will be demonstrated through their experience and career to date

The breadth of this role will require curiosity, a willingness to learn from others and the ability to quickly understand the challenges and opportunities around innovation and research-into-practice. Generalist knowledge of healthcare, healthcare research and healthcare improvement will be helpful. You will need a basic grounding in educational theories and methodologies to design education programmes and develop interesting, high quality, educational material. This will be creative work, grounded in educational theory.

You will need a clinical background and to have designed education programmes. Embracing new technologies within education and wanting to support others to develop high quality educational content will be a strong driver in this project.

Key Responsibilities

Lead Education Projects

• Work with teams to identify the education needs within the company to improve patient care and population health
• Design and facilitate a learning needs analysis for teams within UCLPartners focussed on improvement, research and education
• Collaborate with patients, clinical academics and innovators to design, deliver and evaluate education programmes
• Motivate and support a small team to deliver on time and with excellence
• Keep stakeholders updated and utilise them as advocates for project work and outcomes

Strategic Thinking and Working

• Advise and collaborate with head of programme the learning needs identified within teams
• Work with the education programme lead to write programme updates present to heads of programmes and senior management as required
• Present work with confidence and clarity at relevant meetings and groups of healthcare leaders
• Work with the education team and other programme leads to develop a robust and inclusive methodology of patient and public involvement in UCLPartners education
• Work with other programme teams within UCLPartners to improve the quality of education delivered by the organisation
• Keep abreast of developments within healthcare education through attending relevant workforce and education meetings and reading publications

Management

• No line management is currently established within this role but it would be expected that were the team to expand, the post holder would support by line managing project support officers
• Provide and seek peer support from others within the organisation
• Work with other members of the education team and HR to develop a culture of giving and receiving feedback within the education team and wider company

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• oRegistered healthcare professional or
• oPost graduate study of clinical education (eg MSc in Clinical Education)

Experience

Essential

• Designing, delivering & evaluating health or care education programmes
• Recent employment in a health or care environment
• Collaboration beyond your own team to deliver projects

Desirable

• Experience working in a research environment
• Experience delivering healthcare improvement projects
• Held an educational role within the health or care system
• Creating e-learning materials
• Delivered collaborative projects across organisations

Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

Essential

• Demonstrates a vision for the future for using education for multi-professional and inter-professional learning
• Ability to map, analyse and communicate complex and challenging matters with clarity and purpose
• Ability to apply educational theory to the design, delivery and evaluation of education and training
• An understanding of national health and social care strategy, of healthcare policy (including innovation and education initiatives) and the landscape (commissioning, provision and innovation)
• Flexible - able to work within a face paced environment and manage complexity
• Ability to interact well with all members of multi-professional team with diplomacy, persuasion & tact
• High emotional intelligence, excellent communication and negotiation skills
• Good spoken & written English

Desirable

• Knowledge of quality assurance processes for educational activity/programmes

Employer details

Employer name

UCLPartners

Address

170 Tottenham Court Road

London

W1T 7HA

Employer's website

https://uclpartners.com/ (Opens in a new tab)