Clinical Skills Tutor - Undergraduate Medical Education

The post holder will be a member of a team of Clinical Skills Tutors who provide teaching and training within the clinical skills labs and the clinical environment for undergraduate medical students based within the Northern Care Alliance., 1. Provide specialist advice to effectively communicate with a wide range of people in a manner consistent with their level of understanding, culture and background to explore complex issues and to make complex decisions.
2. Influence care delivery in the teaching of medical students, incorporating current best practice, evidence base, future trends and developments in care, timeliness of interventions and their related risks
3. Provide skills assessments for medical students and on occasion, when role allows, postgraduate doctors in training, giving immediate feedback in order for them to improve on performance
4. Deliver complex clinical skills teaching to medical students within the skills laboratory and in clinical areas of the Trust
5. Contribute to the development of an environment which challenges and questions practice and promotes the quality of thinking amongst practitioners.
6. Deliver simulation educational sessions with clinical experts to the medical students.
7. Support and assist with the local arrangements for all aspects of the undergraduate clinical exams and examine at clinical exams when need arises under the guidance of the Clinical Skills Manager.
8. In conjunction with the other clinical skills tutors, contribute to the general running of the clinical skills laboratories within the Trust including attention to health and safety requirements, welfare of visitors including patients and maintenance of training equipment.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.