Associate Clinical Professor Head of Community Based Medicine

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £61,142 to £126,281 depending on experience

Hours: Part Time (24 working hours per week)

Closes: 22/05/2024

Background

We are seeking to appoint a new senior member of staff to join our flagship MBChB programme at an exciting time when the curriculum and programme structure are being redeveloped. The new member of staff will join a well-established team of academics and clinicians to contribute to the development of the revised curriculum, lead our team of senior clinical tutors, contribute to the design and delivery of teaching and participate in NHS Faculty Development.

Community Based Medicine (CBM) is a strand in the MBChB programme where medical students learn about medicine from a Primary Care perspective. The majority of the teaching that students receive occurs on placement in General Practices across the West Midlands and beyond.

The Academic Lead for CBM should be a practising GP (MRCGP/FRCGP). They will provide leadership to a team of Senior Clinical Tutors, each of whom takes responsibility for a year of the MBChB programme and supervises a team of Clinical Tutors who facilitate small-group teaching, on-campus.

This is a high level, strategic post. The postholder will be responsible for developing relationships with placement providers and will contribute strategically to the development of novel community-based placements, in order to enhance the student experience. They will work with relevant professional services staff as well as other academics to ensure the content, structure, delivery and quality of the CBM component meets the requirements of the Programme and the General Practices used for placements.

Main Duties

The postholder will:

• Work with the MBChB Programme Director and Deputy Programme Directors to help develop and implement clinical reasoning throughout the MBChB curriculum.
• Work to develop learning outcomes and align them with other teaching components within the curriculum.
• Develop new teaching resources, including devising additional opportunities for formative assessment and feedback, designing appropriate summative assessment, and ensuring a close alignment of these new learning outcomes to assessment design and the GMC outcomes for graduates and MLA content map.
• Contribute to the design and delivery of CBM teaching.
• Be required to work flexibly to balance academic and clinical commitments (if appropriate).

Person Specification

The post holder will be:

• An experienced clinical educator with experience in a medical setting, who will innovate and deliver a first -class education for future doctors.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.
• Demonstrate excellence in Learning and Teaching, and Management and Administration.
• The holder of a postgraduate qualification in Education e.g. PGCert or higher qualification (if appropriate).
• The postholder should be a doctor, fully registered with a licence to practise with the GMC and participating in clinical appraisal and revalidation.
• The successful candidate must have experience in curriculum design at module and programme level.
• Successful and sustained performance in a significant administrative/managerial role (s) (e.g. exams officer).

Informal enquires can be made to Professor Kate Thomas, c.p.thomas@bham.ac.uk or telephone 0121 4146071

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