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Teaching Fellow, In Reach Support

Job id: 100345

Salary: £44,105 - £50,163 pro rata per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.

Business unit: Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care

Department: Adult Nursing.

Location: Waterloo Campus

Category: Academic & Teaching. 

About us

King’s College London is a leading University with nine Faculties. As part of King’s Health Partners, we have an excellent environment for health care interaction and a strong focus on mentoring and career development.

The 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) placed King’s applied and allied health research 1st for: overall proportion of research rated 4* (world-leading, the best mark possible), research papers rated 4*, impact rated 4*, environment rated 4*(joint), Grade Point Average and Power.  REF2021 rated as world-leading: 100% of our environment, 86% of our impact and 70% of our research overall. Over 95% of our research overall was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent.

For the last six years, King’s has been number 2 in the world and number 1 in Europe for Nursing (QS world rankings). King’s produces more highly cited research outputs (top 1% citations) on palliative care than any other centre internationally (SciVal) and is second in the world on the same metric for nursing and midwifery. King’s is the largest provider of health care education in Europe.

The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care (NMPC) is based in the heart of central and south London. It includes the Cicely Saunders Institute for Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, the premier Institute for Palliative Care, bringing together clinical, research and education teams.

Our applied clinical and health multidisciplinary research transforms therapies, the healthcare experience, and outcomes for patients and those important to them, wherever they are cared for. Our award-winning NMPC education programmes span pre-registration nursing and midwifery, and multidisciplinary post-graduate taught and research programmes.

We are committed to staff development and offer opportunities to identify and access appropriate training and professional growth.

About the role

This is a development opportunity for a talented individual to provide in-reach contact and support for nursing students in practice with a particular focus on 3rd year BSc pre-registration undergraduate (Adult, Child & Mental Health) nursing students.

The candidate will visit and support these pre-registration students in placement.  They will liaise with Faculty Nursing Midwifery & Palliative Care (FNMPC) placements team, Faculty Partnership Leads, Trust practice education leads, Clinical Teachers (where relevant) practice supervisors, practice assessors and placement managers.

We are looking for applicants with clinical and educational experience and have good communication and person-centred care skills.

The purpose of the role is to also ensure that students practice assessments are in line with standards for Students Supervision & Assessments (NMC 2018; 2019) and comply with the regulatory requirements of Faculty Nursing Midwifery & Palliative Care (FNMPC) undergraduate nursing programmes.

The candidate will also have a thorough understanding of principles of the Safe Learning Environment Charter (SLEC) (NHS England 2024) to ensure that Kings College nursing students have a clear and continuous pathway for learning in placement underpinned by the principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

The candidate will champion and uphold King’s values and principles and maintain highest standards by adhering to policies and guidelines as required.  You will be responsible for undertaking direct placement visits for students identified by Trust Practice educator or Faculty Partnership Lead (FPL) and ensuring that all Part 3 BSc undergraduate students have at least one visit during their placement as a minimum requirement.

They will liaise with ward/placement managers, or student’s practice assessor as to student engagement with the professional values of the NMC Code (NMC, 2018), and professional conduct expectations of the FNMPC.

They will be responsible for engaging in supportive conversations with students’ assessors to co-ordinate timely Part 3 tripartite assessment meetings if a student is not making progress.

They will champion the identity of the students as ’learners’ in practice, by ensuring they attend scheduled placement teaching/ clinical/research forums and spoke placement visits linked to placement speciality.

They will be responsible for co-producing and participating in Trust/organisations inductions to align with FNMPC and Trust/organisation partner expectations.

They will support new staff joining the FNMPC to have working knowledge of students Practice Assessment Document requirements across each part.

This is a part time post (1 day a week, 7 hours) and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 2 February 2026.

Contact details: Dr Mary Raleigh. [email protected]

Closing date: 04 December 2024. 

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