Midwife Clinical Teaching Fellow

Haringey GP Federation; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 40,000 - GBP 60,000; Full time

Job description

This post is an opportunity for a motivated midwife with an interest in education and teaching, with the drive to develop their skills and experience in this area. The successful candidate will play a key role in the delivery of the undergraduate curriculum in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, and will work closely with Dr Cecilia McKee, who is the current undergraduate lead for the unit. The role will include involvement in the co-ordination, organization and delivery of clinical teaching sessions for undergraduate medical students.

Main duties of the job

The role is designed to enable the individual to continue to practice clinically, with an expectation that over the year, around 50% of time will be spent on education, and 50% on clinical shifts. Commitment to the undergraduate timetable would be expected, with these fixed sessions being protected and taking priority.

About us

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.

Job responsibilities

The departments provide undergraduate teaching to medical students from Newcastle University in both stage 3 and stage 5 as part of their Womens Health rotations. Each rotation has 6-8 students, spending either 3 weeks or 4 weeks in the department with teaching provided in a variety of clinical settings including outpatient clinics, wards, theatres and delivery suite. The post holder would be expected to take an active role in delivering and supporting this teaching. There would be a combination of small group seminar type sessions, clinical based discussions and opportunistic bedside clinical teaching. Each new cohort of students requires an introduction session, and an induction/orientation to the delivery suite, to which the post holder would contribute. The role provides an additional point of contact for the students, in what can be a daunting placement, and a bridge between what they have learned in lectures, and day-to-day clinical work.

Person Specification

• Registered Midwife
• Academic study to at least diploma level
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Recognised teaching qualification
• Ability to demonstrate personal involvement in initiating or participating in service developments
• Ability to be assertive as and when the need arises

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.