Job responsibilities
Education and Training
We place great importance on our University status and have strong educational links to the Colleges of Medicine in Swansea and Cardiff and the College of Human and Health Science in Swansea and you will be responsible for carrying out training, teaching, examination of healthcare staff and accreditation duties as required and for contributing to and participating in postgraduate and continuing medical education activity, locally and sometimes nationally.
A staff Education Centre at Morriston Hospital shared with the College of Medicine, with raked lecture theatres, seminar rooms and common rooms opened in 2015 as part of a substantial investment on the site to replace older facilities.
There is a small library and education centre at Cefn Coed Hospital to support the staff who work there. Singleton Hospital has a well-stocked library and seminar rooms for staff as well as education facilities for the College of Medicine in its own facilities. Neath Port Talbot Hospital has an education centre and library on the top floor of the main hospital building. All five libraries are integrated to provide support for students and staff across the Health Board.
You will be named in the contracts of junior medical staff as the person expected to act as Educational Supervisor for those assigned to you; overseeing their training and being the initial source of advice for doctors regarding their careers, within the guidelines of the specialist bodies and medical royal colleges. Medical trainees in Wales are required to agree an educational contract jointly between them, the Health Board and the Deanery.
You will participate in the specialtys postgraduate teaching sessions.
You will also teach and train medical undergraduates in line with the Undergraduate training programme.
- Participate actively in the departments undergraduate teaching programme.
- Welcome medical students into learning environments with specific the approval of any patients involved.
- Engage and involve medical students in your clinical activities, where possible and appropriate.
- Provide informal and bedside teaching to undergraduate medical students where appropriate, particularly during ward rounds, in the emergency department, during outpatient clinics and during operations and procedures.
- Give feedback to medical students.
- Participate in undergraduate examinations, particularly clinical examinations for Swansea and Cardiff medical students if requested to do so.
- Be responsible to the honorary lecturer and honorary senior lecturer for the purpose of undergraduate medical education.
There will be opportunities for the successful candidate to develop a specific teaching interest, develop and to take up formal, remunerated clinical teaching sessions, which will be, integrated into his/her job plan.
3.3 Research
We are a University Health Board and you will be encouraged to participate in or actively support research and development in line with our Research and Development strategy and in discussion with the Director of Research and Development. The time required for supported research activities will be agreed through the job planning process.
4.0 UNIVERSITY PARTNERS
4.1 Swansea University
Swansea University has been at the cutting edge of research and innovation since 1920. It has a long history of working with business and industry but today its excellent research has a much wider impact across the health, wealth, culture, and well-being of the society. It offers a compelling balance of excellent teaching and research. The University has contributed to the transformation of Swansea as a city of distinction, since 1920.
It has achieved an extraordinary level of success in recent years and the research activity exceeds that of many larger universities, yet this has not compromised the friendly and relaxed atmosphere that has always characterised the Swansea experience.
Its commitment to research with real-world benefits has seen it achieve their ambition to be a Top 30 Research University, soaring up the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) league table to 26th in the UK.
Swansea University was named University of the Year in the Whatuni Student Choice Awards in 2019 for the second time. In the prestigious Times and Sunday Times, Good University Guide 2021, it has been ranked in the top 20 for Student Experience. The University is ranked top in Wales in The Guardian University Guide 2021 for the second year running, rising from 31st to 24th nationally.
The Faculty of Health and Life Sciences has been recently formed by bringing together the Swansea University Medical School and College of Human and Health Sciences. The Faculty is home to a vibrant community of staff and students, brought together by an ambition to improve the health and wellbeing and wealth of society through research, education and innovation.
The Faculty of Health and Life Sciences has a long-standing reputation for the quality of our teaching and research. The University achieved Gold in the latest Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF), which recognises excellent teaching, and the Medical School is ranked first in the UK for research environment, and second for overall research quality (REF 2014). The Medical School has been consistently ranked in the UK top 10 for the last few years.
We are a faculty with global reach and impact and we feel it is important more people benefit from what we do - whether through creating opportunities for more students to study, by increasing the reach of the real-life impacts of research, by building strong international partnerships or supporting more companies to develop through open innovation. We support health and social care partners to identify, understand and meet their workforce needs and by enabling service change through research and innovation-driven improvements in care, treatments, therapies and practices. We help drive economic development and wellbeing though investment and collaboration in world leading science, innovation and enterprise. We are at the forefront of designing and securing the medical, life science, health and social care workforce of the future.
Building on the success of the Medical School and the College of Human and Health Sciences, the new faculty will make a unique contribution to the regional, national and international challenges facing health and social care when it goes live later this year.
4.2 School of Medicine, Cardiff University
Since its foundation in 1893, the School of Medicine has been committed to the pursuit of improved human health, through education, research and engagement with the wider world. It is a major centre for teaching and research and makes a positive difference to the way medicine is practised in Wales, the UK and internationally. The School of Medicine at Cardiff is one of the largest in the UK, employing nearly 500 academic and 300 support staff. Over 1000 undergraduate and 1100 postgraduate students are currently enrolled on medical and science courses. As a major international centre for teaching and research, staff and students make a world-leading contribution to medicine and are committed to the pursuit of improved human health through education, research and engagement with the wider world. The School has recently invested heavily in a programme of curriculum development, is rated among the top 10 medical schools in the UK and the top 100 worldwide and is among the five most rapidly improving medical schools in the UK. As part of this programme, they are also in the midst of developing a new assessment strategy for all undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
4.3 Cardiff Research Institutes
Across the school of Medicine, five institutes lead research that covers a spectrum from basic laboratory science to bedside practice. These are the Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, the Institute of Infection & Immunity, the Institute of Primary Care & Public Health, the Institute of Cancer & Genetics, and the Institute of Molecular & Experimental Medicine. Alongside these research Institutes, core functions of the school are provided by the Institute of Medical Education and the Institute of Translation, Innovation, Methodology & Engagement (TIME).
The only dental school in Wales provides unique and important leadership in dental research, teaching and patient care. Located at the University Dental Hospital on Cardiff University's Heath Park campus, a 53-acre site shared with the University Hospital of Wales.
Research facilities have recently been enhanced with the £11m Henry Welcome Building for Biomedical Research in Wales. The building includes state-of-the-art laboratories and equipment for research into Infection & Immunity, Cancer Biology and Psychiatric Genetics, adjacent to a purpose-built Clinical Research Facility.
5.0 MANAGEMENT AND CLINICAL LEADERSHIP
Consultants have an important leadership role in their teams and the Health Board. You will be required to work closely with your clinical and management colleagues in the safe and efficient running of services and are expected to contribute, with colleagues, to the management, improvement and modernisation of the services in which you work. You may also be asked to contribute nationally to support the NHS in Wales.
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