Medical Education Coordinator

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Medical Education Coordinator to join the medical education team to support the planning and delivery of medical education to undergraduate medical students in the Trust.

The Medical Education Coordinator post is a rewarding and challenging role with varied work involved to plan and deliver high quality medical education to undergraduate medical students.

If you have excellent planning skills, attention to detail and able to coordinate multiple processes with tight deadlines we would love to hear from you.

Whilst this post is based at Wansbeck General Hospital, regular trust wide travel is required.

• To coordinate, manage and deliver teaching programmes and assessments for undergraduate medical students in the Trust.
• To review, adapt and implement administrative processes in line with Trust and Medical School policies.
• To provide administrative support to the Director of Undergraduate Clinical Studies, Medical Education Manager and senior faculty.
• To liaise with the Newcastle and Sunderland medical school teams within the Trust to ensure that both curricula are delivered effectively.
• To provide line management, training, support and leadership to the undergraduate medical education administration team.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!

Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application

The post holder will be responsible for the coordination of all aspects relating to the delivery of the Sunderland Medical School curriculum within the trust. This is a varied and busy role, which requires the post holder to work on their own initiative and develop strong relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

• To provide administrative support to the Director of Undergraduate Clinical Studies, Medical Education Manager and Block Leads.
• To provide line management training, support and leadership to any members of the Sunderland Medical School admin team who may be subsequently appointed.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.