Job description - Faculty Development - London Deanery

JOB DESCRIPTION FOR SPR AWARDED A
FELLOWSHIP IN MEDICAL EDUCATION
AT NORTH MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TRUST
The North Middlesex University Hospital has an ethos of excellence in teaching and a rapidly
developing interprofessional learning programme. Learning is a core activity in the strategic plan
for the hospital as we work towards Foundation Hospital status in 2008. A new management
structure is now in place to ensure that all training achieves the required standards set by both
medical and nursing training bodies. We aim to exceed these standards by fostering a culture of
professionalism in education.
The post holder will be expected to work with the Postgraduate Medical Education Director,
Undergraduate Sub-Dean and Foundation Programme Training Director in developing the clinical
skills centre teaching programme, for which funding has recently been awarded by the London
Deanery. This would include development of simulation training for multi-professional trainees.
Postgraduate medical education faculty development at NMUH will include a weekly programme
for peer-group teaching, for which we have been allocated funding from the London Deanery. This
will involve trainees at any level from FY1-ST5 delivering clinical or generic training using a variety
of teaching modalities to develop their teaching skills to an advanced level and to facilitate
personal learning. Teaching skills will be taught by the post-holder as well as the accredited
teaching specialists in NMUH who are leading the undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
programmes.
The post-holder will be responsible to the Postgraduate Director of Education and accountable to
the Foundation Programme Director for those areas of the post which fall within the Foundation
Programme.
On appointment the post-holder will be eligible to attend monthly seminars on aspects of medical
education at the London Deanery. The post-holder will be expected to register for the Masters
programme in Clinical Education at the Institute of Medical Education or an equivalent programme
elsewhere which will be financially supported by the London Deanery.
Research into the delivery of the Foundation Programme is a possible area for the post holder to
develop as part of the MSc course as is curriculum development and educational programme
design.
A maximum of 1 day a week will be available for clinical training in the chosen speciality of the
post holder. Additional out of hours work may be available from the relevant clinical speciality by
agreement with the MMC lead.
North Middlesex University Hospital Trust
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust operates a busy acute general hospital
serving the communities of the London Boroughs of Enfield and Haringey, and surrounding areas.
It is located in Edmonton, on the south side of the North Circular Road and on the
Enfield/Haringey border. It serves a diverse and, in places, highly dependent population of
approximately a quarter of a million people. The other local secondary acute care providers are
Barnet and Chase Farm, Whipps Cross, the Whittington, and the Royal Free Hospitals.
In 2005/06 the Hospital received an income of £133m for patient care, education, training and
research and treated over 46,000 inpatients, 16,000 day-patients, approximately 200,000
outpatients and 157,000 people in the Accident and Emergency and Walk–in Centres. It has 420
inpatient beds and employs 2,000 staff.
The Trust currently provides the following range of acute services:
• 24 Hour Accident and Emergency and a comprehensive range of diagnostic and
outpatient department services
• Emergency medicine and elderly medicine;

• Emergency and elective surgical specialties;
• Intensive care, high dependency care and coronary care;
• Maternity and Obstetrics
• Specialist services (including Oncology, Gynaecology, Haematology, HIV/AIDS, Diabetes,
Renal and Cardiology)
• Children's Services: Paediatric inpatients and outpatients, paediatric A&E and neonatal
The children's services are managed by the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust
in partnership with the North Middlesex. There are also links with mental health services for
emergency care and patients with dual needs.
Our focus is to provide the local population with a full range of district general hospital services
and to provide first-rate emergency care services, as 80% of the current inpatient activity is
emergency care, as well as to continue to strengthen specialist services to meet the needs of the
local population.
The Trust has developed plans to improve its services and facilities for the population it serves
currently, as follows:
• More rapid assessment and investigation of patients through the reconfiguration of
services such as: Diagnostic Imaging, Emergency Assessment, Critical and Acute Care,
Ambulatory Outpatient Treatment and Planned Care to suit patient needs and to
modernise standards. This will be met through an increase in day care and out-patient
activity, expansion in assessment beds for adults and children without increasing bed
capacity overall, supported by additional day theatre facilities.
• Development of facilities for the seamless delivery of primary and secondary care
services, to enable the implementation of explicit care pathways for different groups of
patients;
• Providing the physical capacity for the reconfiguration of services, with modern facilities to
cope with the complex demands of the local population;
• Eliminating current logistical problems of poor departmental adjacencies, preventing
efficient use of beds and the potential for multidisciplinary clinical team care, and which
exposes the patient to the “pin ball” effect of navigating dislocated parts of the campus for
different aspects of their care;
• New ward design to allow more single rooms and bay accommodation with en-suite
facilities;
• Improved quality of care and patient privacy, dignity and comfort from linked facilities and
collocations, eliminating the current arrangements of transporting patients between
buildings by internal ambulance, on trolleys or in wheelchairs;
• Transforming the image and perception of the hospital as a poor quality-working
environment by enhancing staff recruitment and retention through the investment in the
whole of the campus.
Information Security and Confidentiality
All Persons Identifiable Information (PII) must be held in the strictest confidence and should be
disclosed only to authorised people in accordance with NHS Confidentiality Guidelines (Caldicott)
and the Data Protection Act 1998 unless explicit written consent has been given by the person
identified; or where information sharing protocols exist.
The post holder is responsible for meeting the requirements of the Data protection Act 1998 to
ensure the PII is up to date, that data is timely and that information is securely stored and safely
disposed of when there is no continuing requirement for its retention.
All clinicians are responsible for ensuring that clinical information extracts or reports are accurate
prior to distribution.

Further information about this post can be obtained by contacting:
Dr Penny Hyatt
Postgraduate Director of
Education
or
Dr Hilary Sinclair
Foundation Training Programme Director
& Undergraduate Sub Dean
Academic Centre
North Middlesex University Hospital
Sterling Way
Edmonton
London N18 1QX
Tel: 0208 887 2481/2740/2748
Email: academic.centre@nmh.nhs.uk
Further information about North Middlesex University Hospital Trust is at: www.northmid.nhs.uk
November 2007