Education Fellow

The fellows facilitate the delivery of high-quality education and teaching of medical students and other colleagues at East Surrey Hospital. The fellows collaboratively develop, plan, coordinate and deliver a wide range of teaching activities; the peak times of student attendance is between August – March.

East Surrey Hospital Has Undergraduate Medical Students From Three Medical Schools – Brighton & Sussex Medical School, St Georges University London And Imperial College. The Medical Students Come Throughout The Year And Have Placements In

• Medicine (AMU/ Care of Elderly/ Diabetes/ Endocrinology/ Rheumatology/ Respiratory)
• Surgery (Upper GI/ Lower GI/ Breast)
• O&G
• Paediatrics
• Mental Health
• Primary Care
• Emergency Medicine
• Anaesthetics and Critical Care

The role will require you to work with our undergraduate sub deans and medical education officer to contribute to the design and development of teaching materials and induction. You will design appropriate teaching including the timetable for all medical students, considering both classroom and bedside teaching to meet all objectives of the students and their placements.

You will also support our undergraduate ultrasound leads, in the delivery of ultrasound education and the work of our simulation team.

The post will be split as 70% education and 30% service with the department of your choice. Funding will be available for successful applicants to complete a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education through a university agreed between you and the Director of Medical Education. Time allowance to attend the course will be included in the timetable.

The post will enable you to spend the year pursuing clinical areas of interest as well as education; this has facilitated the successful application of previous fellows into higher training posts.

The successful applicant will have great organisational skills and have a passion for teaching undergraduate students in NHS clinical placements.

For more information please review the job description, or you are very welcome to make contact with our current Fellows, Michaela, Cesci and Siona.

You can contact them on [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected].

Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust prides itself on being recognised as a great place to work. For the 2nd year running we have been ranked in the national NHS Staff Survey in the top 20% of hospitals nationally to work and receive treatment and also as somewhere patients receive quality treatment and care. We have also been inspected and rated as Outstanding at CQC review.

We are ranked in the top 20% for:

• Staff engagement
• Motivation
• Effective team working
• Support from managers and good communication between senior managers and staff
• Feeling able to contribute towards improvements at work
• Quality training, learning and development
• Using feedback from patients effectively to improve the care provided
• Managers being interested in the health and well-being of staff
• Satisfaction with resourcing and support
• Confidence and security in reporting unsafe clinical practice

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Heather Haynes Job title: Strategic Medical Education Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01737 768511

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