Dermatology Teaching Fellow

The UHDB Dermatology department based at Florence Nightingale Community Hospital and the Royal Derby Hospital is a very busy department, with 8 Dermatology Consultants, 2 Associate Specialists along with a team of Specialist Registrars, GP Hospital Practitioners / Specialty Doctors and Specialist dermatology nurses.

This post is 50% Teaching Fellow appointment for a fixed-term period of 12 months. Based at Florence Nightingale Hospital and the Royal Derby Hospital, the appointee will undertake duties for the Directorate of Medical Education and Workforce.

Four programmed activities per week will be allocated for the post holder to support Undergraduate Medical Education teaching, as well as teaching administration time.

There will be two service delivery sessions in the form of a dermatology clinic and a surgical session to gain experience and skills in dermatology at post graduate level, and a dermatology CPD session, as well as clinical administrative time. There will be opportunities to see dermatology ward referrals.

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car scheme

Key Facts about our Trust:

• Our hospitals see more than 4,000 outpatients daily
• We see more Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients than any other Trust – over 3,300 per week
• An average 860 patients are seen in A&E every day – 6th largest in the country
• Our hospitals admit more than 220 emergency patients daily.
• We carry out more planned surgical operations than any other Trust in England with almost 50,000 operations taking place in our 52 operating theatres
• We are one of only 5 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres

We carry out more than 300 elective procedures each working day

• Development and delivery of SIFT teaching clinics and practical skills in dermatology
• Deliver patient based teaching to CP2 medical students
• Provide and contribute towards service delivery in supervised clinics and surgical sessions
• Undertake assessments of Mandatory Core Clinical Skills (MACCs)
• Represent the Trust at Course Management and Working Party meetings at the University of Nottingham as required
• Contribute to the written examination (formative and summative) questions for CP2 assessments
• Formally examine medical students undertaking CP1,CP2 and CP3 OSCEs
• Support the pre-clinical hospital visits undertaken by the University of Nottingham medical students
• Contribute to the CP2 revision course
• Take part in 1 to 1 support for struggling students
• Undertake MMedSci in Medical Education
• Keeping up to date and participating in CME and CPD
• To deliver any relevant teaching to medical students at the discretion of the Associate Clinical Sub Dean
• Participate in annual appraisals