"Lecturer in Clinical and Communication Skills"

About the Role

Applications are invited for the post of Lecturer in Clinical and Communication Skills to cover maternity leave. The post is 1.0 FTE for 12 months. The post is based within the Skills Unit teaching the next generation of doctors and healthcare professionals. The post is focused on facilitating students to acquire, apply and retain clinical and professional skills across the various medical subspecialities and will also support additional student selected components in clinical skills to complement the core MBBS curriculum.

About You

You will be a collegial, ambitious and inclusive colleague and you will see this as the next career step as you expand and develop your expertise in medical education in the area of clinical and communication skills.

You will have a background in healthcare, experience in teaching clinical or communication skills, a good understanding of student support needs and experience of leading and managing others.

Whatever your motivations for applying, you will inspire through your actions, engage through your variety of teaching styles and actively seek out opportunities for collaboration, thriving on working with others, both within teams and across disciplines.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

One of six Institutes forming the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, the Institute for Health Sciences Education (IHSE) is responsible for the delivery of the Faculty’s medical degree programmes. Together with partner hospitals and primary care practices, we provide an innovative, forward-thinking, and responsive curriculum to our passionate, diverse student body.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.