Clinical Skills Tutor

Job summary

The Undergraduate education team is looking to recruit a highly motivated and skilled staff member to assist in driving high quality clinical skills training delivery throughout the Trust for medical students from various study years attending their clinical placements in the trust.

Are you looking for the opportunity to work within clinical education and be part of a forward thinking and innovative team? Do you want to positively influence future medical workforce to develop their clinical skills? This role will give you that opportunity whilst working is a supportive and friendly team.

The post holder will be part of the Medical Education Department's Undergraduate Education team and reporting to the Undergraduate Medical Education Manager/ Director of Clinical Studies/ Director of Undergraduate Education. The post holder will deliver a range of clinical skills training sessions to support the development of clinical competence across the range of medical students in line with agreed medical school curriculum and Trust educational development strategies and priorities. You will ensure the Trust's training, education and development priorities are delivered in a timely manner and support the drive to ensure clinical skills education is delivered to a high-quality standard.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a member of the undergraduate education team and will be responsible for providing teaching and training within the clinical skills lab for undergraduate medical students based at Northwick Park Hospital. This is a varied and rewarding role supporting medical students to improve their competency in clinical skills and offering further support to those who require it.

Main duties of the job:

• Delivery of clinical skills teaching and practical procedures to undergraduate medical students following Trust and medical schools' guidelines in the Clinical skills room.
• Effective management of the clinical skills laboratory at Northwick Park Hospital for all medical students on site. Currently at the hospital there are students from two medical schools: Imperial College School of Medicine and Brunel Medical School.
• Organise and support the local arrangements for all aspects of the undergraduate clinical exams.
• To act as a role model exploiting every opportunity to enhance the knowledge of others in issues relating to clinical skills and to promote health and safety, clinical excellence, infection control and risk assessment.
• Collaborate with Teaching Fellows to provide a holistic learning experience to the undergraduate medical students.
• To continually seek to improve the quality of education using evidence-based practice, liaising with professional colleagues, reviewing literature and evaluating feedback.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.