Job responsibilities
Job Title: Local Training Hub Clinical Fellow
Fixed term employment or secondment
Business Group: Greater Manchester Training Hub
Duration, 12 months
Hours or Programmed Activities: 1 session per week of 4 hours
Base: Manchester, Stockport, Tameside & Glossop
Accountable to: Clinical Lead for the Manchester,Stockport,Tameside & Glossop Local Training Hub and GMTH Strategic Business Manager
Reports to: Clinical Lead for the Manchester,Stockport,Tameside & Glossop Local Training Hub
Overview
The Manchester, Stockport, Tameside and Glossop Local Training Hub (MSTG LTH), part of the Greater Manchester Training Hub is seeking a Clinical Fellow to support the advancement of the local training hub in delivering workforce development, training and education in localities, primary care networks and GP practices and providers.
This is an innovative role within the MSTG LTH and would suit a primary care clinician who has a background in training education and workforce development in primary care, is forward thinking, and has a clear desire to develop the support to primary care to access and enable education and training locally.
The MST&G Local Training Hub has delivered consistently since 2015, whilst working in innovative ways with all providers, education partners and universities and all within the GM Training Hub team.
The GMTH is the platform for developing educational opportunities with the GM sustainability and transformation partnership (STP), to grow and strengthen the primary care workforce.
The Greater Manchester Training Hub is our umbrella Health Education England Training Hub, and is comprised of 4 Local Training Hubs, brought together by an overarching GM Training Hub Board.
For more information please see this excellent HEE animation;
https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/training-hubs
Greater Manchester Training Hub
https://www.gmthub.co.uk/
Main Purpose of the Role
The Manchester,Stockport,Tameside & Glossop Local Training Hub covers 3 localities in GM. The Training Hub Clinical Fellow will be an essential link to those localities and support the communication, education and workforce development offers
You will be supported to take the lead on areas of development or project management, to provide clinical input into the local training hub work-streams and to the local training hub team. This is an excellent development opportunity for any primary care professional. We are looking for a GP, Nurse, Physio, Paramedic, or Pharmacist to join the team.
You will bring a wide range of skills to the role, with expertise in learning and teaching, a track record in project delivery and management, and a deep understanding of primary care, General Practice and the ability to communicate clearly with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- To support the delivery of local Training Hub projects
- To support the education and training of undergraduate Nurses, Physiotherapists, Pharmacists, Physicians Associates and Medical students
- To develop a range of inter-professional learning opportunities
- To connect with localities and providers to support education and training
- To support workforce planning in our localities, Primary Care Networks and GP Practices and providers.
- Communication Ensure clear channels of communication within the GMTH/ Local TH and with all stakeholders and locality teams and providers Develop clear communications on projects that are well written, have clarity and are timely Quality Assurance
- Ensure that academic rigor in practice learning is maintained, that learning outcomes can be met, and are aligned with service reconfigurations.
- Contribute to multi professional quality assurance monitoring of education in practices and localities
- Contribute to the Quality Assurance systems which are aligned with GMTH governance processes
- Continuously monitor practice learning activities against quality assurance standards enabling ongoing enhancement of the learning experience.
- Support the development of supervision in practice, in providers, GP practices and PCNs
- Undertake research and development relevant to education in practice and the clinical learning environment.
- Support the development of quality of learning environments against quality assurance standards, suggesting improvement measures to enhance the student learning experience.
- Plan and implement development programmes and assessment processes for all healthcare students with HEIs/ universities.
- Provide best practice advice in a clinical setting for mentors/ practice supervisors and staff in relation to education in practice.
- Leadership
- Contribute to maintaining and improving own professional knowledge and competence
- Promote excellent education principles
- Promote a values based approach, a willingness to drive the development of primary care workforce, training and education. Ensure equality, fairness, openness, display duty of candour,
- Write clear reports on projects that display rigor
- Participate in the assurance of the Local Training Hub
- Manage own workload independently and prioritizing as required.
- Responsibilities for Teaching and Training
- Plan, design and deliver structured inter-professional learning in practice for healthcare students and mentors/ practice supervisors and assessors.
- Contribute to the planning, delivery and review of multi-professional development programmes for mentors/ practice supervisors in order to meet the learning needs of different professional groups, and to ensure that the facilitation of inter-professional learning outcomes is included.
- Identify opportunities where multi-professional mentorship and practice supervision can be facilitated in practice as a foundation for inter-professional learning to take place.
- Develop educational policy and procedures for supervisors, assessors across disciplines and maintain learning environment records and review systems
- 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.
