Clinical Skills Coordinator

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as a Clinical Skills Co-ordinator within the Undergraduate Medical Education department at our Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

You will work primarily within our Medical Education Centre (MEC) at Queens Medical Centre and have the opportunity to develop your administrative skill-set working closely with our clinical teaching team to support teaching.

There will also be opportunity for continual professional development within the role with scope to support funding of courses and programmes relevant to your development needs in line with the role as well as your future aspirations.

Part time applicants will also be considered.

Main duties of the job

In addition to the below summary you need to familiarise yourself with full job description and person specification documents attached to this advert.

NUH Medical Education Centre (Clinical skills area) – The successful candidate will play a key role in service administration working within the Undergraduate Medical Education Centre.

Patient Liaison – Working closely with the Undergraduate Coordinators to organise volunteer patients for all clinical course workshops. To be the main point of contact ensuring that information is kept up to date and is passed on effectively. You will be the lead co-ordinator in arranging payments for volunteers and sending out thank you letters, in addition to maintaining and updating the patient database.

Qualitative Role– To support the Undergraduate Quality Manager by recording and collating SIFT feedback after each student rotation, organising meetings and minute taking as part of the annual review of the department quality management meetings.

Working for our organisation

You will work as part of a dynamic administrative team within Undergraduate Medical Education alongside our Clinical Teaching Fellows, clinical teachers in the trust, patients supporting teaching and medical students with us for their clinical placements.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The duties below tie in with the key responsibilities of your day-to-day work:

Handle day-to-day student and Clinical Teacher enquiries for all aspects of the course.

To act as the first point of contact for MEC queries from a wide range of service users.

To ensure compliance of health and safety legislation within the centre. This will include guidelines around the supervision of clinical staff and medical students within the trust policies and procedures, maintaining safe systems of working including the safe cleaning, storage and security of equipment.

To implement and maintain systems to ensure the coordination of use/loan of equipment.

To maintenance clinical equipment and technology in line with trust guidelines.

To ensure equipment provision and guidance to all users within the clinical skills areas.

Oversee MEC room bookings ensuring that the areas are being used to full capacity and potential.

Setting up and preparing equipment for respective sessions and ensuring clear down after each session.

Ordering and maintaining stocks and supplies of clinical skills equipment and other items as required.

Liaise with suppliers regarding equipment and delivery within the department ensuring that orders are correctly receipted.

To ensure patient payments are processed in good time and handle such queries with the support of team leaders.

To support trust compliance in line with patient safety policies.

Support maintenance and updates to medical students on the University Moodle platform where required.

Have an awareness and understanding of the undergraduate curriculum and how it is implemented at other Trusts in the Medical School’s sphere, in order to share best practice and developments, to facilitate enhanced teaching and learning experience.

To support the QAA and SIFT process within various clinical courses, as required.

To support the department in any other administration duties as required.