Clinical Skills Practitioner

This post will support and facilitate learning opportunities for undergraduate medical students by overseeing and supervising learning experiences including learning within the simulation skills environment. There will also be involvement in formative and summative assessments and clinical skills courses run by the Trust for students, postgraduate doctors and other clinical staff.

The successful applicant will be based at QEH and will join the current Clinical Skills Practitioner based at UHL. This role is part of the medical education team which includes lead consultants, Education Fellows and administrative staff on each site. The focus of this post will be to maintain, develop and enhance the quality of the already excellent departmental teaching programmes for medical students. The post is based at QEH but will work across sites as part of the Trust-wide Simulation Faculty., The Clinical Skills Practitioner will provide a comprehensive, highly specialised, Clinical Skills Service to the Trust and King's College London Medical Students with the aim of meeting the Trust's needs in this area. The focus of this post will be to maintain, develop and enhance the quality of the already excellent departmental teaching programmes for medical students from Year 2 to Year 5 across the sites, with a particular focus on clinical skills teaching. Responsibility for the education, learning, training and development of the medical students will be shared with the Consultant Block Leads in each of the blocks and years and the DUME.

The Clinical Skills Practitioner will evaluate the need for, plan, organise, coordinate, implement, teach and evaluate multi-professional Clinical Skills Training and testing within the Trust (in the clinical environment and in the Clinical Skills Laboratory) autonomously., 1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations