Job summary
Ealing Hospital has close academic and service links with Imperial College School of Medicine and Hammersmith Hospitals Trust. These include Specialist Registrar rotations in medicine, surgery and anaesthetics, which are coordinated through the North Thames Deanery. Many consultants have joint appointments or academic sessions at Imperial College.
Ealing Hospital is an Associated University Hospital of the University of London and has students from Imperial College School of Medicine on attachments in medicine, surgery, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, anaesthetics, A&E and other departments. The value of medical training is well recognised and consultants devote appreciable time and effort to teaching junior staff and medical students.
There is an active postgraduate education department with many weekly meetings in the various specialties and a general weekly lunchtime Grand Round for medical staff from all departments. The postgraduate centre has undergone extensive improvements in recent years with a large lecture theatre, several well appointed seminar rooms and a very well equipped library and literature search facility. The Postgraduate Library is a multi-disciplinary facility providing state of the art information access on all medical issues, computer facilities with Internet access, and a clinical video library.
Main duties of the job
The post will be based in the Department of General Medicine at Ealing Hospital NHS Trust. The aim of the post is two fold to facilitate the teaching of medical students and to provide the medical doctor in training with a year of instruction into medical science.
The post holder will become an integral part of the General Medical team. The post holder will have share of an office from which to work, with computing facilities and connection to the Internet.
The post holder will be responsible for organising and co-ordinating the daily teaching of medical students from Imperial Medical College. These sessions should include patient assessment, medical disease, treatment options and related medical topics. He/she will be expected to run teaching clinics by recruiting patients from the waiting list or outpatient clinics. These teaching sessions will take up to 12 hours of time per week including preparation time and will run in parallel with existing teaching from medical staff at the Hospital.
The post holder will co-ordinate the end of attachment assessment including preparing a small written examination for the students. He/she will also organise the clinical for the final MBBS examination in June.
About us
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The appointee will be directly responsible to the Director of Clinical Studies for Undergraduate education. He/she will be expected to work closely with the Medical Education Manager at the Undergraduate Centre at the Hospital.
The post holder will be registered at Imperial Medical School for the MSC Medical Science course. The aim of the course is to provide the medical doctor in training, with a year of instruction into medical science and into clinical development in his/her area of specialisation within medicine. By the end of the 3 months stem programme the students should have enhanced his/her understanding of molecular biology, medical immunology and infectious disease and have developed skills in presentation, computing and statistics, through completion of a thesis the student should gain experience in research methodology and techniques, design of a research project, data analysis and presentation, literature searching and presentation of work for publication. In addition he/she will have studies in depth a practical aspect of general medicine.
It is anticipated that the successful candidate will be able to develop his/her research on the Ealing Hospital site with the support of the Institute of Medical Research. The area of research can be the candidates own idea or be chosen from projects proposed by the staff at Ealing Hospital or Imperial. A member of the academic staff from Imperial Medical School and Ealing will jointly supervise the students.
To view the main responsibility, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification
Job description
Job responsibilities
The appointee will be directly responsible to the Director of Clinical Studies for Undergraduate education. He/she will be expected to work closely with the Medical Education Manager at the Undergraduate Centre at the Hospital.
The post holder will be registered at Imperial Medical School for the MSC Medical Science course. The aim of the course is to provide the medical doctor in training, with a year of instruction into medical science and into clinical development in his/her area of specialisation within medicine. By the end of the 3 months stem programme the students should have enhanced his/her understanding of molecular biology, medical immunology and infectious disease and have developed skills in presentation, computing and statistics, through completion of a thesis the student should gain experience in research methodology and techniques, design of a research project, data analysis and presentation, literature searching and presentation of work for publication. In addition he/she will have studies in depth a practical aspect of general medicine.
It is anticipated that the successful candidate will be able to develop his/her research on the Ealing Hospital site with the support of the Institute of Medical Research. The area of research can be the candidates own idea or be chosen from projects proposed by the staff at Ealing Hospital or Imperial. A member of the academic staff from Imperial Medical School and Ealing will jointly supervise the students.
To view the main responsibility, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification
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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.
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
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Additional information
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.
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).
