Clinical Skills Teaching Fellow at King’s College London

Job description

The role of the Clinical Skills Teaching Fellow is to meet the evolving needs of clinical skills and simulation teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education at Kings. The post holder will be involved in the planning, design, and delivery of a range of teaching, simulation and e-learning resources. The role is designed to provide continuity of educational and operational support to the head of clinical skills by working 17.5 hours (0.5FTE) / 2.5 days a week, or equivalent and we are looking for a clinician who is looking to develop an academic career in clinical education.

This will require the post holder to take a scholarly approach to the design, delivery & evaluation of simulation-based education, online and face to face teaching relating to interprofessional education and other aspects of clinical practice teaching. You will be part of a dynamic team who work creatively and proactively to improve the student learning experience on campus and across the clinical sites. 

There are range of expected roles including, teaching foundation clinical skills in a first-year module; teaching on the Interprofessional Education (IPE) programme, including IPE full patient simulation (FPS), which focuses on human factors skills and use of the debrief diamond; teaching in year group theme weeks and developing e-learning content for all years to support the curriculum; writing for assessment (SBA’s, OSCE stations) and marking student submissions in the year 1 module. 

The focus of this post will be to support the head of clinical skills to deliver teaching on the IPE programme and MBBS theme-based curriculum. The strand of IPE teaching provides a range of learning about clinical practice focusing on team-based practice with seminars on (1) Promoting Patient Safety, (2) Pain Assessment and Management, (3) FPS and (4) Prevention of Medication Errors. The aim for this post is to deliver IPE teaching and assist with the review and content development. This role will suit a clinician with a good understanding of team based collaborative clinical practice, human factors skills and ability to develop curriculum resources for campus, ward based or online delivery. 

It is also an opportunity to enhance the MBBS programme by reviewing existing content to update, adapt and embed into the curriculum, particularly for online learning resources.  

Teaching will be mainly campus based with some online (Teams), as we continue to use a blended learning approach. 

Contract type 

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract  

This is a part-time post – 50% full time equivalent