Senior Teaching Fellow (SCF Grade) ENT

at  Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

JOB OVERVIEW

The successful candidate for this middle grade (registrar / specialty trainee level) post will work as part of the ENT team at Salford Royal Hospital. Our ENT department is a tertiary unit offering general ENT in addition to: voice and airway, specialist rhinology, specialist otology and anterior and lateral skull base.
The 12-month post holder will co-lead the undergraduate ENT teaching and support the supervision of medical students. This involves taking on the primary role of facilitating the medical students’ week in Otolaryngology through organising timetables for theatres and clinic exposure. Teaching involves both didactic and small group/bedside teaching with clinical skills development. The department can help the candidate during their 12 months to develop other skills (both clinical and non-clinical) which can be discussed with their educational supervisor. When medical students are not rotating through the department, the post holder will be timetabled clinical activity.

WORKING FOR OUR ORGANISATION

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/working-with-us/our-values/

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.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

The post would provide an excellent opportunity for a potential ENT trainee looking to increase their exposure in ENT or develop their CV in order to facilitate their entry to specialty training or for a more senior trainee wishing to consolidate their experience.
The post holder will have the opportunity to co-lead the undergraduate ENT teaching and support the supervision of medical students. There will be ample opportunities in both posts to develop skills across the specialty, both clinical and surgical skills. The duties also include being part of the middle grade on call rota.
Duties of the post – Clinical
1) Participate with the daily care of all ENT in-patients including ward rounds, reviewing inpatient referrals and ongoing review of inpatients.
2) Clinical supervision of foundation and core trainees on the team.
3) Clinical sessions would be scheduled on a job plan, ensuring ample opportunity for both operative and clinical training on non-teaching weeks. This would be agreed once appointed and can be modified to accommodate specific training and educational requirements of the successful applicant.
Teaching, Research & Governance: an active involvement in the research, education and governance programmes would be expected. This would include leading the teaching of medical undergraduates and supervising foundation and core surgical trainees.
On call: the successful candidate will be required to participate in the on-call middle grade rota

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/