Senior Lecturer Clinical Skills and Patient Engagement
Are you an inspirational educator and role model who would like to contribute to Clinical and Professional Skills teaching? Do you want to lead patient engagement strategy so that patient and public involvement can be the very best for its school and stakeholders? If so, this may be the role for you.
The role holder will teach primarily across years one to three of the school’s undergraduate medicine programme and lead the assessment of clinical and professional skills across the whole programme and in initiating our patient engagement programme.
As Senior Clinical Skills and Patient Engagement Lead you can expect to be involved in:
- Teaching as a member of a teaching team and deliver high quality undergraduate level learning and teaching activities in Clinical and Professional Skills teaching for the undergraduate Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery (BM BS) programme.
- Implementing the Policy and procedures for Patient Engagement
- Supporting clinical and academic guidance for the patient engagement co-ordinator and academic staff with ensuring that patient engagement routes are correctly followed as per respective submitted schemes of work.
What will you bring to the role?
- Educated to Degree Level in a health and care professional qualification or equivalent
- Current registration as either a practitioner or educator category with relevant professional regulator e.g., GMC, NMC, HCPC
- Academic credibility with a track record of excellence in teaching
- Experience of teaching Clinical and Professional Skills to undergraduate or postgraduate students in a clinical or academic setting
What we can offer in return:
As a member of our team, you can expect a friendly, open and collaborative working environment and support in your development and wellbeing. You’ll enjoy a range of great staff benefits including:
- 43 days’ leave per year (personal leave, bank holidays and additional days allocated for the Christmas period, pro rata for part-time staff)
- Excellent pension scheme with generous employer contributions
- Corporate employee-funded healthcare plan, in partnership with Benenden Health
For more information about what you can look forward to if you join us, visit our dedicated webpage: Working at Kent
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcome applicants who support the core values of KMMS.
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Please see the links below to view the full job description and to apply for this post. For further information regarding the application process, please contact peopleserviceshr@kent.ac.uk quoting reference number KMMS-274-25.
We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented at this level in this area
Further details:
Job Description
Additional Information
Occasionally we may need to close a vacancy before the published deadline due to a high number of applications being received, therefore we strongly advise you to submit your application as soon as possible. (All vacancies will be open for at least one week.)
We prioritise applications from current University of Kent redeployees. We will let you know if this post is to be filled by a redeployee as, in this instance, your application will unfortunately not be taken forward.
Applications must be made via the University’s online application system; CVs or details sent directly to the department or via email cannot be considered.
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