Education Fellow in Anaesthesia

Job overview

We are excited to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated doctor to join our Anaesthetics and Critical Care team as an Education Fellow.

This post has a strong focus on developing, delivering, and evaluating high-quality education programmes within Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) delivered both locally and regionally. This alongside maintaining clinical skills through supported service provision.

This role is ideal for a doctor with an interest in medical education, simulation, technology enhanced learning (TEL) and training development, who is looking to build a portfolio aligned to a future career in Anaesthesia, ICM, or medical education.

Main duties of the job

Education (approx. 40–50%)

The post-holder will:

• Lead on the design and development of structured education programmes in Anaesthesia and ICM
• Support delivery of: Resident doctor teaching programmes Multi-disciplinary teaching (including nurses, and theatre teams) Simulation-based education and skills training
• Resident doctor teaching programmes
• Multi-disciplinary teaching (including nurses, and theatre teams)
• Simulation-based education and skills training
• Contribute to: Anaesthetic novice programmes. Regional and Trust-wide teaching initiatives.
• Anaesthetic novice programmes.
• Regional and Trust-wide teaching initiatives.
• Develop innovative educational resources (e.g. TEL, e-learning, and simulation)
• Evaluate teaching effectiveness through feedback, audit, and quality improvement
• Support trainees with exam preparation (e.g. FRCA / FICM components where appropriate).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

All Locally Employed Doctors will be involved in providing a general clinical service to the Trust.

• To provide clinical services to Derbyshire, East Staffordshire and surrounding areas, with colleagues and to be responsible for the diagnosis and treatment of patients at the hospitals and clinics at which you have duties and the proper functioning of the department.
• To provide continuing care and treatment of patients in your charge and personal performance of clinical duties as agreed and teaching of staff in training, and the multidisciplinary team.

. Maintaining flexible arrangements for emergency cover and a provision of cover for colleagues during reasonable periods of leave.

• Provision of an out-of-hours service with colleagues including on-call rota commitments as agreed.
• Active participation in undergraduate and post graduate education, including training sessions for resident doctors, medical students and other healthcare staff in the specialty.
• Assist in the supervision and training of medical staff/students, carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required and contributing to postgraduate and CPD (Continuing Professional Development) activity locally and nationally as appropriate.
• Participate in clinical governance activity under local arrangements.
• If the appointee has an interest in research this would be supported by the Trust and the Division.
• Commitment to taking part in the annual appraisal process which will be undertaken by a trust approved appraiser.
• Responsible for compliance with personal continuing professional development requirements with the support of the Trust.
• Responsible for maintaining awareness of and acting in accordance with professional guidelines such as “Duties of a Doctor”, “Good Medical Practice”, and the “General Medical Council (GMC) Performance Procedures”.
• Exceptional requirements to undertake additional duties for limited periods within geographical area specified above or undertake duties at other hospitals in the event of a major disaster or incident.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.