Job summary
If you are passionate about the quality of simulation based education, know how to train simulation educators and have creative ideas to support more healthcare professionals deliver great simulation based education, you should consider applying for this post. The Faculty Development Lead will oversee a transformational project to design and implement a bespoke digital faculty development passport for the London Simulation Network.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a new member to join our dynamic team, to lead on Faculty Development across the LSN. This will involve working with the LSN members and NHS England to ensure equity of access and quality standards of Faculty Development programmes.
Please apply for this role via our website at:
https://uclpartners.com/vacancy/faculty-development-lead/
About us
UCLPartners
We are a health innovation partnership. Our mission is to help five million people from North London to the Essex coast live longer, healthier lives. We solve the biggest health challenges through research and innovation, speeding up the delivery of solutions that improve health and care.
Please visit our website to find out more about us, our values and how we work.
The London Simulation Network
UCLPartners host the London Simulation Network (LSN). Members includeall providers of simulation based education in any format across all organisations responsible for education of healthcare professionals across London.
The Network is member driven and owned with a shared vision to build on existing expertise, practice and experience of Simulation Practitioners in London. It is an enhanced community of practice which fosters connections, communication, channels of working and collaborative working to improve simulation delivery, innovations and research opportunities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are looking for a new member to join our dynamic team, to lead on Faculty Development across the LSN. This will involve working with the LSN members and NHS England to ensure equity of access and quality standards of Faculty Development programmes.
Key responsibilities:
Liaison and engagement with simulation practitioners
- Support delivery of effective and relevant faculty development
- Chair the Faculty Development working group, which meets on a quarterly basis
- Through the Faculty Development working group, scope the current requirement and provision of faculty development training and lead the co-design and delivery of all faculty development workstreams.
Leading Faculty Development Workstreams
- Advance faculty development and a digital competency passport will be the two key workstreams with ambitious, well defined aims
- Oversee and co-ordinate the development of advanced Faculty Development modules commissioned by HEE and matched to the LSNFaculty Development Framework
- Build and manage the database of those who have completed HEE London commissioned faculty development courses and use this information to enable a more flexible use of faculty across London
- Lead the design and implementation of a digital passport for faculty development.
Strategic support to Health Education England, regionally and nationally
- Based on information from the working group and your expertise, engage with Health Education England at a regional and national level to advise them on all aspects of faculty development
- Advise HEE in strategic commissioning of training to meet the needs of both novice and advanced faculty and enable the delivery of training at sufficient capacity, equity of access to opportunities and ensure the delivery of standardised learning outcomes.
- Support and contribute to other workstreams and the general running of the network beyond the specific responsibility for faculty development workstreams including (though not limited to) hosting meetings, hosting educational activities and events, supporting network communication via email, phone, social media and our website, and cross covering other education work to ensure business continuity.
Key Relationships include:UCLP Simulation leads, the wider Education Team and other UCLPartners staff, LSN members, HEE London Associate Dean for Simulation, HEE London Workforce Transformation Lead, HEE London Heads of Specialty Schools and HEE TEL National Team and Regional Leads
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are looking for a new member to join our dynamic team, to lead on Faculty Development across the LSN. This will involve working with the LSN members and NHS England to ensure equity of access and quality standards of Faculty Development programmes.
Key responsibilities:
Liaison and engagement with simulation practitioners
- Support delivery of effective and relevant faculty development
- Chair the Faculty Development working group, which meets on a quarterly basis
- Through the Faculty Development working group, scope the current requirement and provision of faculty development training and lead the co-design and delivery of all faculty development workstreams.
Leading Faculty Development Workstreams
- Advance faculty development and a digital competency passport will be the two key workstreams with ambitious, well defined aims
- Oversee and co-ordinate the development of advanced Faculty Development modules commissioned by HEE and matched to the LSNFaculty Development Framework
- Build and manage the database of those who have completed HEE London commissioned faculty development courses and use this information to enable a more flexible use of faculty across London
- Lead the design and implementation of a digital passport for faculty development.
Strategic support to Health Education England, regionally and nationally
- Based on information from the working group and your expertise, engage with Health Education England at a regional and national level to advise them on all aspects of faculty development
- Advise HEE in strategic commissioning of training to meet the needs of both novice and advanced faculty and enable the delivery of training at sufficient capacity, equity of access to opportunities and ensure the delivery of standardised learning outcomes.
- Support and contribute to other workstreams and the general running of the network beyond the specific responsibility for faculty development workstreams including (though not limited to) hosting meetings, hosting educational activities and events, supporting network communication via email, phone, social media and our website, and cross covering other education work to ensure business continuity.
Key Relationships include:UCLP Simulation leads, the wider Education Team and other UCLPartners staff, LSN members, HEE London Associate Dean for Simulation, HEE London Workforce Transformation Lead, HEE London Heads of Specialty Schools and HEE TEL National Team and Regional Leads
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- This role requires diverse experience of developing and delivering simulation-based education and delivery of faculty development training for simulation. The role requires excellent communication skills and an ability to liaise with individuals from diverse professions with differing levels of seniority. You will have experience of managing teams and promoting collaboration across teams. You are organised, self-directing, show initiative and can prioritise tasks.
- Registered health care professional
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Experience developing and delivering simulation-based education programmes
- Evidence of delivering simulation faculty development training
- Knowledge of Faculty Development frameworks
- Experience in Quality Assurance of educational activity/programmes
- Management or involvement with a simulation/education facility
- Demonstrates a vision for the future of simulation-based education within the NHS
- Ability to discuss knowledgeably current and proposed developments in education and healthcare
- Ability to interact well with all members of multi-professional team with diplomacy, persuasion and tact
- Experience of working autonomously, prioritising, organising and planning own workload and delivering results consistently with attention to accuracy and detail
- Experience building credibility to build relationships and influence work colleagues or stakeholders
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills
- A strong commitment to equity, and diverse and inclusive teams and principles
- An understanding of the importance of patient, carer and community involvement in the effective development, adoptions and spread of health innovation
- Post-graduate qualification(s) in education (desirable)
- Peer reviewed educational publications (desirable)
- Experience developing education programmes using distance learning methodologies (desirable).
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- This role requires diverse experience of developing and delivering simulation-based education and delivery of faculty development training for simulation. The role requires excellent communication skills and an ability to liaise with individuals from diverse professions with differing levels of seniority. You will have experience of managing teams and promoting collaboration across teams. You are organised, self-directing, show initiative and can prioritise tasks.
- Registered health care professional
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Experience developing and delivering simulation-based education programmes
- Evidence of delivering simulation faculty development training
- Knowledge of Faculty Development frameworks
- Experience in Quality Assurance of educational activity/programmes
- Management or involvement with a simulation/education facility
- Demonstrates a vision for the future of simulation-based education within the NHS
- Ability to discuss knowledgeably current and proposed developments in education and healthcare
- Ability to interact well with all members of multi-professional team with diplomacy, persuasion and tact
- Experience of working autonomously, prioritising, organising and planning own workload and delivering results consistently with attention to accuracy and detail
- Experience building credibility to build relationships and influence work colleagues or stakeholders
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills
- A strong commitment to equity, and diverse and inclusive teams and principles
- An understanding of the importance of patient, carer and community involvement in the effective development, adoptions and spread of health innovation
- Post-graduate qualification(s) in education (desirable)
- Peer reviewed educational publications (desirable)
- Experience developing education programmes using distance learning methodologies (desirable).
Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
