Medical Education Assistant inBishop Auckland inBishop Auckland PUBLISHED
TUE 24 DEC 2024
Successful candidates should possess strong communication and organisational skills to effectively collaborate with healthcare professionals and support the delivery of high-quality training programs. In addition to routine administrative tasks, the role may involve occasional participation in role-playing activities for simulations if staffing allows. Overall, this position offers an opportunity to contribute significantly to the educational efforts of a vital healthcare institution while developing a professional network within the NHS.
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
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
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To provide high quality administrative processes to support the delivery of a wide range of simulation training programmes to support participants and course organisers
To cordinate a large amount of courses, juggling competing demands whilst managing own workload
To provide assistance with optimum processes for gathering and presenting high quality data
Ensuring the simulation centre is at its best at all times. this requires monitoring of the rooms, keeping things tidy, ensuring the provision of cleaning and personal protective equipment and maintaining good security and information governance
Observing admistrative inventory and ordering materials as appropriate on the cardea system
Be the presenting face of the centre at all times, supporting centre users with their needs as they arise.
Facilitating an air of professionality and good team networking
Although it is not an expected part of the role, there is scope from time to time to support the team with role play of patient characters in simulation in the event that staffing requires. We welcome this if time permits
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