Role Overview
The postholder will primarily be responsible for contributing to the development, delivery, and quality assurance of teaching these students, as well as involvement in supporting the learning of doctors‑in‑training and the wider multi‑disciplinary team. This is a 12‑month post and is offered as 40 hours per week on the resident doctors' pay scale. Job share will be considered. It will enable the right candidates to develop their own portfolio in teaching, training, leadership, management and understanding learning, as well as being supported in their own development as an educator. The post‑holder will have the opportunity to gain formal medical qualifications if desired. There is also the option to choose a 50/50 split post -- spending 50% of your time in Medical Education and 50% of your time in either Cardiothoracic Surgery, Respiratory Medicine or Cardiology.
Eligibility Requirements
The postholder must hold full General Medical Council registration with a License to Practice and have completed the foundation years of training or equivalent. Experience and familiarity with UK hospital systems and practices or equivalent is essential.
About the Trust
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Medical Education team at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in our state‑of‑the‑art facility on the Cambridge Biomedical Science campus. Our core values of compassion, excellence, and collaboration are at the forefront of delivering responsive, effective and safe patient care and, to support this ethic, the Trust is committed to ensuring that all staff and students have access up‑to‑date, relevant and practical clinical development programmes. To do this, we are growing our team and need staff members who share our vision, our enthusiasm, and our pride in delivering a wide scope of practice, personal governance, and accountability. We are looking for enthusiastic and professional individuals with drive and passion for multiprofessional practice development to join a dynamic team, and to help the Trust maintain its position as one of the most innovative and leading NHS organisations in the country. The Trust is renowned for its commitment to education and the delivery of high‑quality teaching and training, including to students from the University of Cambridge's School of Clinical Medicine. Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state‑of‑the‑art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure. Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe, the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission— a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day‑to‑day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
Equal Opportunity
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
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