Undergraduate Education Senior Clinical Skills Trainer

There is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic proactive individual to join our Postgraduate and Undergraduate Education team to deliver clinical skills training to undergraduate learners as a Band 6 UG Education Senior Clinical Skills Trainer.

The UG Education Senior Clinical Skills Trainer within the Christie Institute for Cancer Education delivers and provides specific effective clinical skills training and support to medical and non-medical staff and student groups.

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual who will develop the current service, focusing on maintaining and developing standards and upholding trust protocols and guidelines in relation to clinical skills training.

The successful candidate will work closely as part of the Clinical Skills Training Team in supporting Departmental Managers, Clinical Practice Facilitators, clinical staff and other members of the multidisciplinary team.

Also, the successful candidate will need to support Senior Clinical Skills Trainers with the supervision of medical devices training processes.

• Plan and deliver clinical skills training to agreed standards, procedures and policies to a range of pre-registration medical and non-medical students working through their high-risk clinical skills programme. This may be to small groups and or on a 1:1 basis.
• Evaluate and adapt delivery of training dependent upon assessment of current level of knowledge, skills and experience of the learner.
• Work alongside pre-registration students in practice supporting them with their high risk clinical skills.
• Assess the practical clinical skills competencies of pre-registration students to established competency assessment frameworks. Feedback areas of concern to senior colleagues and/or departmental managers.
• In collaboration with senior members of the team participate in developing and reviewing training materials, presentations and input/comment on policy updates.
• Maintain and develop own knowledge, skills and competence in relation to clinical practice and clinical skills training.
• Contribute to the implementation of new clinical skills training initiatives, ensuring practice is evidence based and adheres to trust standards and policies.
• Participate in evaluating clinical skills training provision and identifying skills gaps to ensure continued improvements, quality and standardisation of training.
• Provide pastoral support for learners and escalate to manager and HEI where necessary.

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.

We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Mathew Stephenson

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