Senior Midwifery Tutor

Take responsibility for the development, implementation and evaluation of a programme for clinical and skills teaching of medical students to reflect their curricula, learning outcomes and competency requirement.

Familiarise self with the curricula of medical students, identify their practical skill requirements and oversee their experience in the clinical and practice areas.

To teach students in clinical situations or in the Skills Laboratory environment.

These Will Include

• Antenatal skills – routine schedule of care and screening
• Practical labour ward skills – to include abdominal palpation and vaginal examination
• Midwifery and caring skills
• Recognition, management, support of women in labour including the administration of a range of analgesic agents
• Conduct of normal labour
• Recognition of abnormal labour
• Management of common complications and risk management protocols.
• Support students through the patient pathway
• Liaise with named officers in the University department and service to develop equitable learning opportunities, which may be multi-professional as appropriate.
• To develop the clinical learning environment.
  
  

Please see the job description and person specification for further details.

The role/duties of the post are outlined below. In undertaking this role, the employee will be expected to behave at all times in a way that is consistent with and actively supports the organization’s values or lead the search for and development of innovative methods of teaching.

Education and Student Support

• Identify learning needs of staff. Responsible for addressing identified learning needs in learning outcomes, core conditions and core presentations.
• Attend and teach at the introductory clinical skills circuit in UCL main campus each module
• Facilitate manikin based additional training in speculum and bimanual examination skills
• Support learning through history taking observation and examination
• Complete structured learning exercises mandatory to placement sign off
• Attend Single Best Answer (SBA) writing workshops and assist with writing for the 5th and final year exams.
• Attend OSCE writing workshops and assist with writing scenarios based in the setting of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• Support the person centre pathway
• Deliver lectures centrally at UCL on core topics in introductory lecture weeks
• Deliver induction to each student cohort group
• Deliver weekly formal tutorial to students on placement on site at the Whittington
• Attend examiner training and examine in UCL examinations
  
  

Please see the job description and person specification for further details.

This position is based at Whittington Health medical campus, working on behalf of University College London Medical School.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Johnny Swart Job title: Consultant Physician in GIM and Geriatric Medicine Email address: [email protected]