KSS Deanery BSMS Leadership and Education Fellowship

Division: Women, Children & Young People

Care Group: Medway Fetal & Maternal Medicine

This is a Fixed Term Appointment for 12 months

We are recruiting for a KSS Deanery BSMS Leadership and Education Fellowship who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

The role has a key focus on developing the postholder’s own leadership and education capability. This will be achieved through the work-based project(s) and a bespoke development programme including the Post Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Leadership and Commissioning at BSMS.

The role includes a clinical component to enable the postholder to maintain and develop their clinical skills. This includes learning skills in obstetric ultrasound and high-risk pregnancy in a tertiary level Fetal Medicine Unit.

The post holder will be part of our multidisciplinary team at the Medway Fetal and Maternal Medicine Centre and will carry out various projects / roles to support the education, training and improved experience of our junior doctors, research fellows and specialist midwives.

The Role May Include

• Delivering education and training for trainees and / or multi-professional group
• Co-ordinating senior and junior leadership project
• Providing mentorship and assisting trainees with their quality improvement projects
  
  

The role also provides the opportunity to gain insight into medical education processes and infrastructure at Trust and KSS Deanery level.

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

The NHS are striving towards “we work flexibly” as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented group

s to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ranjit Akolekar Job title: Lead Fetal Medicine Consultant Email address: ranjit.akolekar@nhs.net Telephone number: 01634 825110