Job summary
- Main area
- Education
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 180-RD-245271
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division R&D
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 p.a. pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Tutor/Co-ordinator Communications Skills
Band 8a
Job overview
We are a small team excited to expand as our students numbers have increased.
The role is part of the wider picture to provide the best educational experience for medical students. In doing so we are supporting our future generation of doctors to become safe, kind and excellent.
Our team really believe our purpose is in ensuring we improve and help maintain standards of care for our patients. Each one of us has a part to play in this case. The senior tutor will help co-ordinate the curriculum and support the CCS lead to deliver the educational requirements of the CCS strand
Main duties of the job
As a senior communications tutor, you will be responsible for 9 main duties:
- Educator/trainer packs
- Teaching communication skills
- Training for facilitators
- Providing support to students
- Faculty for MB Examinations
- Other/Expert clinical knowledge
- Management
- Research and Audit
- General Compliance
Working for our organisation
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 7th July 2024
Interviews are due to be held on 16th July 2024
Benefits to you
We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse, day nurseries and access to a great transport system with easy access to airports and rail travel.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse/Health Professional educated to Degree level
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Teaching qualification.
- Advanced communication skills/counselling qualification
Desirable criteria
- Research Module.
- Masters Degree
- Leadership/management qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant relevant clinical experience at senior level
- Significant experience of formal & informal communication skills facilitation/teaching: small group/large group/experiential & lecture styles
- Experience of leading and implementing change
Desirable criteria
- Experience of multi-disciplinary teaching
- Contributes to the development of clinical communication skills training at national/international level
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of evidence-based practice, teaching & training methodologies
- Understanding of evidence-based clinical communication skills
- Understanding of Clinical Governance.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates advanced verbal and written communication skills.
- Capable of working as an integral member of a small team.
- Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due workload and colleagues’ needs.
- Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients
- Leadership Skills.
- Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload; effective time-management.
- Effective interpersonal skills.
- Ability to lead developments in practice.
- Commitment to multidisciplinary working.
- Demonstrate analytical and judgmental skills.
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- To act in a professional manner at all times in accordance with NMC/Professional Code of Conduct.
- Develops effective working relationships with other practice areas/academic institutions.
- Understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of broader issues related to specialty – political and Trust.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Klaudine Simpson
- Job title
- Clinical Skills Tutor
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01223 586630
- Additional information
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