Senior Midwifery Tutor at Whittington Health NHS Trust
London N19 5NF, , United Kingdom -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

09 Nov, 25

Salary

63176.0

Posted On

10 Aug, 25

Experience

0 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Good communication skills

Industry

Education Management

Description

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 d evelopment 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 5 th 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.
Responsibilities

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 5 th 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
Management
Help to design the rotas for each academic year to ensure sufficient focus on normality and deviation from this
Observe others teaching (nurses, doctors, midwives) and provide structure feedback on their teaching sessions for their development.
Help to support students struggling on placement to achieve their competencies
Attend UCL teaching committees, student experience meetings, module meetings, exam committee meetings and quality meetings
Practice
Assist students with practical prescribing skills
Teach clinical skills on manikins like vaginal examination, speculum examination, abdominal palpation
Assist students with history taking and presenting
Assist students in emergency management of obstetric and gynaecology scenarios
Develop clinical reasoning skills through case based discussions
Research
Promote evidence/research-based quality improvement work amongst the students and pair them with clinical supervisors.
Disseminate and utilize audit and research results as appropriate in departmental and organisation wide audit and QI presentations days.
Support students to share their research more widely in conferences
Act as a change agent and support other staff in the implementation of new practices.
Develop educational research projects within the placement to enhance learning especially multi-disciplinary working
Professional
Identify personal objectives, reflect on progress and set a personal development plan annually.
Exercise accountability and responsibility for continuing professional accreditation and registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Following individual performance management, liaise with the consultant lead in agreeing how identified training and development needs are to be met.
Ensure that own practice is kept updated, using an acceptable model of clinical supervision.
Take every opportunity to expand practice in line with current guidelines.
Ensure that students are aware of, and practice in accordance with, all current guidelines and policies.
Contribute to meeting the trusts strategic objectives.
Develop management and leadership skills abilities under the direction of the consultant lead
Demonstrate an awareness of global issues relating to clinical and professional education.
Undertake any other duties that may reasonably be required.
Please see the job description and person specification for further details

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