Fellows in Medical Education (Psychiatry) - 2 posts

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Fellowship includes three main components:

Teaching

Teaching with involve two distinct roles one working primarly at the trust level in collaboration with the Simulation Training Lead and the other working in collaboration with the Undergraduate Education Lead for Psychiatry at the University of Oxford.

At the trust level, the post-holder will be expected to contribute to the on-going development and delivery of mental health simulation-based education (SBE) and other technology-enhanced training initiatives. The main duties here will be to:

• Design, develop and deliver simulation-based educational initiatives.
• Evaluate the impact of training initiatives and prepare reports for key stakeholders.
• Contribute to the development of the simulation team within the trust.
• Support the development of a simulation faculty across the trust and the Department of Psychiatry.
• Prepare bids for various funding opportunities.

The Trust is keen to allow post-holders to develop teaching programmes that may be specialty specific or of interest to the individual post-holder.

At the departmental level, post-holders will take a supportive role in developing and delivering the in-house teaching programme for undergraduate medical students at the University of Oxford. They will have the opportunity to:

• Contribute to the medical students formal teaching programme in the Brain & Behaviour Module.
• Support the development and evaluation of new educational packages in psychiatry and psychology for medicine.
• Contribute to formative assessments.

Post holders will be given honorary membership of the Department of Psychiatry.

EducationalResearch

Funding will be provided for post-holders to enrol on postgraduate training in Clinical Education should they wish. This will be supported as a key aspect of the role and post-holders will have the opportunity to take part in educational research activities which will support project assignments for postgraduate study.

Research will be centred on the training of undergraduate medical students but will include other professional groups of learners. Post-holders will be expected to develop a focused educational research project with the support of a supervisor and will be supported to generate publishable outputs, including conference presentations (national and international) and publications in peer reviewed medical and educational journals.

Clinical commitment

A clinical commitment of one day per week with the Trust will ensure that post-holders maintain their clinical involvement during the fellowship. Details of this clinical component will depend on the appointees clinical specialty and experience and can be negotiated where appropriate. Trainees will be able to continue to attend speciality specific academic meetings. It is also possible for trainees to remain on their existing on-call rota throughout the period of the fellowship should they wish.

The Fellowship may also include:

Learning about Medical Education Structures and Role

In order to learn about medical education from a more systemic perspective, post-holders may attend the Trust Medical Education Committee meetings. There will also be opportunities to attend meetings at the Deanery and Medical School, to shadow the College Tutors and Training Programme Directors in their roles within the Trust, and to meet regularly with the Director of Medical Education.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• oPrimary Degree in Medicine
• oPostgraduate Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent

Desirable

• oEvidence of post-graduate study in medical education
• oEvidence of training in simulation debriefing

Experience

Essential

• oAn active and proven interest in medical education

Desirable

• oExperience of teaching undergraduate students
• oExperience of delivering simulation training
• oExperience of setting up educational projects
• oExperience of producing project reports to deadline
• oExperience of running the technological aspects of education and training initiatives

Knowledge / Skills

Essential

• oExcellent oral communication skills to facilitate trainings, elicit challenging conversation in an engaging and constructive way with a diverse professional group
• oStrong planning and organisational skills with the ability to work independently
• oExcellent IT skills

Desirable

• oSophisticated team player motivated by achieving joint aims and objectives
• oAcademic writing skills and communication skills
• oKnowledge of techniques to collect and analyse data
• oKnowledge of simulation training theory and technical requirements
• oKnowledge of pedogogical theory

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

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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

Oxford Health NHS Trust

Address

POWIC

Warneford Land

Oxford

OX37JX

Employer's website

https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)