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Job Overview
With the first intake of the North Wales Medical School (Bangor University) having just taken place in September 2024, this is an extraordinarily exciting time to be involved with medical education in the Health Board. Medical education is widely recognised as a vital part of every clinician’s role, and an educational qualification provides a strong foundation for a role as future educator. This fellowship offers formal post-graduate training opportunities, provides a wealth of experience in medical education and scope to develop skills mentoring and supervising junior colleagues.
As Care of the Elderly (COTE) education fellow, this post is particularly well-suited to doctors who can demonstrate prior commitment to clinical education, who are several years post-foundation programme, and/ or who are in the early stages of their specialty training or shortly to make the transition from core training to specialty training.
A regular clinical commitment is expected. This has been designed to provide relevant experience in Geriatric Medicine while enabling time to supervise medical students on placement in the clinical environment.
Main duties of the job
- Develop knowledge, skills and experience in teaching and training
- Gain experience in the assessment of learning and peer review of teaching
- Gain experience of supervising and mentoring junior clinical colleagues with a commitment to medical education
- Contribute to the development of novel local teaching
- Contribute to the scoping and development of new undergraduate educational opportunities and quality improvement
- Contribute to the organisation and delivery of the local widening access to medicine programme (including the “Seren Programme”).
- Fulfil the requirements needed for an educational qualification (e.g. Postgraduate Certificate or Diploma in Medical Education) and/ or to meet the Professional Standards Framework for teaching and supporting learning in higher education (FHEA)
- Maintain clinical practice in internal medicine while developing specialist interests in Geriatric medicine
Working for our organisation
If you relish a challenge, have a passion to help others or simply fancy a fresh start, then Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) North Wales, has all the right ingredients. The largest health organisation in Wales, providing a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000, across North Wales . Join our team and get the support you need, in line with our Organisational Values and ‘Proud to Lead’ competence framework.
Enjoy being part of working with engaged leadership at all levels, and be assured we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and are proud to welcome applicants under the “Disability Confident Employer” scheme.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
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Person specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- MB ChB or equivalent
- Full GMC registration
- ALS/ACLS
Desirable criteria
- Progress towards an appropriate postgraduate qualification
- Additional qualifications/academic achievements
Experience
Essential criteria
- Completion of Foundation Year 2 training (or equivalent) Overseas candidates need a minimum of 2 years’ experience post qualification
- No recent gaps in clinical career of more than 2 years in the last 5 years.
- NHS experience
Desirable criteria
- Audit, quality improvement projects
- Research and publications
- One-year Medical Specialities experience
