Clinical Communications and Reasoning Skills Tutor

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:- applied for a Graduate visa- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment

For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 27th July 2025

Interviews are due to be held on 7th August 2025

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse/Health Professional with active registration to a professional body educated to Degree level
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Evidence of teaching/mentoring

Desirable

• Research Module.
• Masters
• Leadership/management qualification
• Teaching qualification e.g. PG certification in health/medical education
• Advanced clinical communication skills/counselling qualification

Experience

Essential

• Significant relevant clinical experience at a senior level
• Significant experience of clinical reasoning, patient-centred history taking and clinical decision-making skills across a breath of clinical conditions and management (acute and chronic, across surgery and medicine)
• 3.Experience in implementing change
• Knowledge of the Calgary-Cambridge Model

Desirable

• Experience of multi-disciplinary teaching
• Experience facilitating small group learning and large lecture teaching
• Line management experience
• Mentoring experience
• Evidence of innovation in teaching/ training/ mentoring
• Experience of creating and developing formal e-learning resources & curriculum; working on virtual learning environments for an organisation.

Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of evidence-based practice, teaching & training methodologies
• Understanding of evidence-based clinical reasoning communication skills
• Understanding of Clinical Governance

Skills

Essential

• Demonstrates advanced verbal and written communication skills.
• Capable of working as an integral member of a small team.
• Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due to workload and colleagues' needs.
• Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients.
• Leadership Skills.
• Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload; effective time-management.
• Effective interpersonal skills.
• Ability to lead developments in practice.
• Commitment to multidisciplinary working.
• Demonstrate analytical and judgmental skills.

Additional Requirements

Essential

• To act in a professional manner at all times in accordance with NMC/Professional Code of Conduct.
• Develops effective working relationships with other practice areas/academic institutions.
• Understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.

Desirable

• Knowledge of broader issues related to specialty - political and Trust.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).