Medical Education Assistant

To provide administrative support to the medical education team and to support the delivery of a wide range of simulation courses within the simulation centre.

Main duties of the role will include supporting the organisation, most notably close co-ordination of courses. This includes facilitating bookings in a very busy centre schedule so requires delicate communication and organisation with course leads. Moreover, you will have a role in mailing out pre and post course information to participants including the delivery of certificates of attendance and updating ESR training records.

You will assist the Senior Nurse teaching Fellow in gathering data using excel which is essential in helping us to identify centre resource usage.

You will also assist the Senior Nurse Teaching Fellow in induction processes and the arrangement of placements for Physician Associate students

Finally, you will be the face of the centre whom participants meet as they enter the Department. this will require you to be situationally aware and have good skills of dealing with issues as they arise. this will include clear ideas of how to escalate any concerns of centre users

Are you a highly motivated individual who enjoys a challenge? Would you enjoy working in a busy and dynamic team responsible for the education and training of a wide range of disciplines for County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation trust? This is an excellent opportunity to use your proven administrative and organisational skills to enable the education and training to take place in the simulation centre in an orderly and robust way

You will need to have excellent verbal and written communication skills in order to establish strong working relationships with colleagues, doctors, midwives and a host of other NHS staff as well as helping to administratively facilitate high quality teaching programmes. You would also be working collaboratively alongside other centre users such as the cardiac arrest prevention team

If you are being interviewed you must accept an interview slot in the system to continue, even if you have arranged with the manager

You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks

We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.