Fellow in Medical Education

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a Fellow in Medical Education at Maudsley Learning, you will join a multi-professional team providing a high performing and fast paced yet supportive environment in which you would be supported to develop professionally while contributing actively to the goals and mission of Maudsley Learning.

You will learn how to design, develop, deliver, market, assess and research around simulation-based education and other trainings developed by Maudsley Learning and gain an unrivalled educational experience.

This is a fixed term 12 months full time post for a Fellow in Medical Education, designed for a Specialty Trainee (years 4-5) in psychiatry to undertake as an Out-of-Programme Experience (OOPE) from their training rotation.

Maudsley Learning delivers a variety workforce development packages focussing on all aspects of mental health care in a variety of clinical and non-clinical settings. This includes simulation-based education courses under the Maudsley Simulation brand. Many training courses are interdisciplinary where patient safety, de-escalation, human factors and physical health issues can form a large part of the scenario design and content.

The post holder will contribute to the on-going development and delivery of mental health simulation-based education (SBE) and other training courses and at Maudsley Learning. As part of this remit the successful post-holder will ensure the on-going high-quality design, development and delivery of these trainings. They will help lead the rollout and on-going assessment of our evolving programme of multidisciplinary courses. This post would offer the post holder the opportunity to develop innovations to support clinical education and workplace practice, to work indirectly in care delivery and to gain an unrivalled educational experience.

The post holder will work closely with the Simulation Clinical Lead for Maudsley Learning and Simulation faculty. The main duties of the post holder will be to:

• Design, develop and deliver a series of simulation-based-education and other mental health training programmes and courses
• Evaluate the impact of courses and training programmes delivered, including presentation of results at relevant conference and submission for publication.
• Contribute to the writing bids and reports of completed training projects
• Contribute to the development of the simulation team, attending relevant meetings and events.

Communications and Working Relationships:

• Simulation Clinical Lead
• Maudsley Learning and Simulation faculty
• Head of Operations
• Digital Learning Team
• Research & Development Team
• Sales & Marketing Team
• Managing Director
• Business & administration team
• External stakeholders and partners

Key Responsibilities:

1. Course delivery & development

• To oversee and be responsible for the successful roll out of training courses and programmes.
• To work closely with the clinical lead, head of operations and other staff to ensure smooth

delivery and co-ordination with the centres medical and non-medical faculty to ensure

debriefing occurs in the most educationally valuable way possible.

• To oversee and to work in collaboration with faculty colleagues, and be responsible for the

design of a range of scenarios so that a large portfolio of different interventions can be offered

to our clinical teams.

• To oversee and be responsible for ensuring high quality debrief and teaching processes are

undertaken by the centres faculty. This will mean that close working with the clinical lead to

ensure consistency across simulation debriefing.

• To be part of the Maudsley Learning team which is continually striving to improve and to

innovate to provide high quality education services to meet the organisations overall aims.

1. Business development and income generation:

• To work with the simulation clinical lead and other modality leads in the development of

business plans for new education and training programmes and bids.

• To be first line of contact and to provide clear verbal and written information for agencies

wishing to understand more about mental health and physical health simulation scenarios.

• To be part of the on-going development of the simulation team within the Trust and to attend

and actively contribute to the operational management of the team and to work for its

success.

• Contribute to the Maudsley Learning business planning process by providing analysis and

support.

1. Project Management

• Work with the simulation clinical lead, head of research & development, head of sales, head

of operations and others to set up and maintain programme controls, timelines for deliverable

projects.

• Actively monitor project timelines and support key stakeholders to ensure adherence and

progress to pre-agreed milestones.

• Attend weekly team meetings to support the review of projects deliverables and monitoring.

1. Performance management / supervision:

• To provide high quality supervision for associated faculty and particularly junior doctors at the

request of the Simulation Clinical Lead

1. Stakeholder management and communications

• Communicate project and programme delivery plans to colleagues across the organisation

and at each level.

• Undertake and assist in the preparation of reports, presentations and academic papers to be

submitted for peer review.

• Present work on ML educational programmes at regional, national and international

conference and events

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 debriefing

Experience

Essential

• oAn active and proven interest in medical education

Desirable

• oExperience of delivering simulation training
• oExperience of managing projects and producing reports to deadline
• oExperience of promoting safety and quality of care in a mental health setting
• 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

Desirable

• oKnowledge of simulation training theory and technical requirements
• oKnowledge of techniques to collect and analyse data
• oAcademic writing skills and communication skills to convincingly present to a diverse audience
• oWork to deadlines, sometimes under pressure
• oSophisticated team player motivated by achieving joint aims and objectives
• oExcellent IT skills

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

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Ortus learning centre

London

SE5 8SN

Employer's website

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