Specialty Clinical Tutor - General Surgery

Job description

Job responsibilities

Primary duties and areas of responsibility

1. The Specialty Clinical Tutor will support and develop supervisors and educators:

To assign trainees to GMC recognised Educational Supervisors / named Clinical Supervisors at the start of the post.

To support the professional development of supervisors and educators with updates, resources and training programme developments at Local Faculty Group.

To support the named supervisor to manage a doctor with specific issues, ensuring a written report with agreed action plan, escalating to the Clinical Director, DME and TPD when necessary.

To ensure that the relevant supervisor is informed when a trainee/doctor is named in a significant incident or complaint and receives a debrief at the conclusion of the investigation.

Meet supervisors to review their role, discuss achievements and challenges & encourage educational development.

2. Support the trainees, SAS doctors and locally employed doctors (LEDs)

Ensure departmental induction occurs, is evaluated and attendance recorded. Department information is updated in induction handbook/website.

Assign each trainee with a named Supervisor who understands their role.

To ensure that the education, pastoral & career planning needs of all trainees and junior doctors in your specialty area are being addressed.

Provision of educational programme of both formal and work-based learning opportunities covering both specialty and generic curricula in collaboration with colleagues and programme directors

Ensure trainees have protected study time to access local and regional education programs.

3. Be an ambassador for patient safety

Ensure all trainees, SAS and LEDs receive adequate clinical supervision at all times and do not work beyond their clinical competence or compromise patient safety.

Ensure, in conjunction with the Clinical Director, that trainees and all LEDs receive appropriate departmental induction, understand expected duties and are competent to perform them prior to starting clinical practice.

Educate all members of the multi-professional team about their role as an educator; to observe performance, perform requested assessments and give feedback to all doctors to ensure quality patient care at all times.

Encourage junior doctors or any other member of staff to discuss with the Specialty Tutor any concerns about patient safety. The Tutor will address the concerns and escalate as appropriate. Ensure this process is included within departmental induction both written and verbally.

4. Education Leader for the department

Chair Local Faculty Group to inform supervisors & educators, discuss trainees and other doctors performance and develop the learning environment.

To implement, monitor and improve the specialty training programmes in the department in conjunction with the DME & Training Programme Director.

Where appropriate to work with the relevant Foundation, Core Programme & GP tutors to ensure the specialty placement fulfils the programme requirements.

To represent their specialty area at training committees, both internally and externally, as required

To ensure, along with the DME, that all those involved in training and assessing doctors have received appropriate training.

Where appropriate to represent the College/Specialty body in the workplace and vice versa. To attend the relevant College tutor meetings and work with regional representatives where available.

5. Quality

Review the GMC training surveys data, placement feedback, monitoring visit reports and direct feedback from trainees to provide the Education Department with an annual action plan to improve training in their department.

To provide updates on this action plan to the Director of Medical Education and appropriate Head of School / TPD

To ensure the actions required from any Deanery / School QM visits are completed. Proactively use other quality data to improve training in the department.

Recording of information required by local, regional and national quality control processes and the provision of a report as necessary.

6. Junior Doctor Contract

Support supervisors managing exception reports, reporting to and collaborating with the Guardian of Safe Working when necessary.

7. Workforce and Finances

Regular meetings with Clinical Director / Lead to discuss training and workforce issues and evidence that training is valued within the directorate. Service reconfiguration and training requirements are discussed together.

Ensure transparency and accountability for tariff and education resources.

Active involvement in recruitment and ARCP processes

8. Professional & Personal Development & Support

Meet DME annually to review the Tutor role, discuss progress and personal development requirements, and the attainment of the specific yearly goals; with updates if required in between.

Develop an appropriate education PDP to be discussed and approved at annual appraisal.

Network with Tutors locally, regionally and nationally to gain ideas, share good practice and receive peer support.

Annual review of the role should take place with the Clinical Director as part of the job plan review.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• GMC full registration
• Completed necessary ES training and be a GMC recognised supervisor.

Desirable

• Postgraduate qualification in education.
• Specialist or General Practitioner registration
• Coaching qualification

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Knowledge of management and governance structures in medical education and training and awareness of current processes in the delivery of medical education and training nationally and locally.
• Enthusiasm for delivering training.
• At least 2 years as Educational Supervisor.
• A knowledge and understanding of Equality & Diversity legislation, regulations, and procedures.
• Knowledge of GMC regulations, the Learning & Development Agreement with NHSE/Deanery & Trust HR policies.

Desirable

• Evidence of supporting trainees and trainers.
• Experience of coaching or mentoring.
• Understanding of uses of IT in education.
• Evidence of personal development in medical education.
• Evidence of delivering well evaluated teaching sessions/tutorials or simulation scenarios.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Effective communication skills, motivating and developing others, good interpersonal skills.
• Approachable and able to make time to see trainers and trainees.

Desirable

• Able to co-operate with other health professionals to promote multi-disciplinary working.
• Previous clinical leadership experience and/or commitment to leadership training.

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Great Western Road

Gloucester

GL1 3NN

Employer's website

https://www.gloshospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)