Clinical Skills Practitioner

at  Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

This post will support and facilitate learning opportunities for undergraduate medical students by overseeing and supervising learning experiences including learning within the simulation skills environment. There will also be involvement in formative and summative assessments and clinical skills courses run by the Trust for students, postgraduate doctors and other clinical staff.
The successful applicant will be based at QEH and will join the current Clinical Skills Practitioner based at UHL. This role is part of the medical education team which includes lead consultants, Education Fellows and administrative staff on each site. The focus of this post will be to maintain, develop and enhance the quality of the already excellent departmental teaching programmes for medical students. The post is based at QEH but will work across sites as part of the Trust-wide Simulation Faculty.
The Clinical Skills Practitioner will provide a comprehensive, highly specialised, Clinical Skills Service to the Trust and King’s College London Medical Students with the aim of meeting the Trust’s needs in this area. The focus of this post will be to maintain, develop and enhance the quality of the already excellent departmental teaching programmes for medical students from Year 2 to Year 5 across the sites, with a particular focus on clinical skills teaching. Responsibility for the education, learning, training and development of the medical students will be shared with the Consultant Block Leads in each of the blocks and years and the DUME.
The Clinical Skills Practitioner will evaluate the need for, plan, organise, coordinate, implement, teach and evaluate multi-professional Clinical Skills Training and testing within the Trust (in the clinical environment and in the Clinical Skills Laboratory) autonomously.
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
Improving the experience of staff with disability
Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
Making equalities mainstream

Service Management

• Work with the Consultants and Education Fellows to facilitate the educational needs of the year 2,3, 4 and 5 blocks of medical undergraduate students during their placement.

Organise and deliver tutorials in response to identified needs.

• Support years 2-5 medical undergraduates in their experience of clinical situations and facilitate their learning of relevant clinical skills, knowledge and attitude.
• Provide an ongoing review of the effectiveness of the clinical skills component of the courses.
• Work as an autonomous practitioner to ensure clinical skills are maintained and developed, and provide further scope for medical student training on the shop floor.
• Clinical Practice ability will include; competence to deliver and teach excellent clinical care within a multiple of specialties including interpretation of diagnostic information.
• Management of emergencies and taking appropriate action plan, develop, implement, teach and evaluate a programme of clinical skills training ensuring appropriate access for all multidisciplinary staff with the Clinical Skills
• Ensure that all clinical skills training is conducted according to current national

and international recommendations.

• Be able to work independently and autonomously, managing own workload, prioritising activities and ensuring the needs of the service are met.
• Maintain accurate records of clinical assessments and interventions
• Manage own time effectively at all times including a balance between Clinical Skills and clinical work in the Trust.
• Be responsible for the provision and maintenance of sufficient equipment for clinical training ensuring compatibility of the equipment to that available in the various clinical areas of the Trust
• Carry out audit, produce reports as requested and carry out other administrative activities relevant to the post as well as maintain the security of the Skills Laboratory at all times.
• Maintain accurate records of attendance at Courses and Clinical Skills Training including candidate bookings, trainer bookings, room bookings, as well as candidate and trainer attendance.
• Be an Educational Supervisor (ES) for students in any year group and sign off skills in e-portfolio.

Provide specialist advice to effectively communicate with a wide range of people in a manner consistent with their level of understanding, culture and background to explore complex issues and to make complex decision

• Be able to provide surgical and simulation teaching to different specialities and year block.
• Support post graduate teaching if required (eg tracheostomy, blood cultures).
• Maintain a presence in the clinical areas by working alongside colleagues and medical students to role model and facilitate excellent clinical practice.
• Maintain the confidentiality of exam scripts during OSCE’s.
• Support teaching as required for University of Nicosia medical students.

Please refer the Job description for details