Post Date : 06-Jun-2024Close Date : 23-Jun-2024 Job Title: Clinical Lead Reporting To: Professor and Director of HPEC Location: 123 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2 Department: Health Professions Education Centre (HPEC) Contract type/duration: 0.3 FTE Maternity Leave Cover – One year RCSI is a community of academic, research, clinical and professional staff working collaboratively to lead the world to better health. Here, you will thrive in an innovative and inclusive atmosphere and your personal development and wellbeing will be supported. We invite you to join us to help deliver on our exciting mission “To educate, nurture and discover for the benefit of human health”. We seek candidates whose experience to date has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to the “Race Equality Action Plan 2021-2024” at RCSI. Our students come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds. This makes our university stronger and ensures we hire the best talent. Innovating for a Healthier Future 2023-2027 is RCSI’s new five-year strategic plan. Through it, RCSI will enhance human health by meeting the health workforce needs of society, creating the insights and inventions that drive health improvements, and working in partnership with patients and the public in support of better health and well-being for all. The strategy unites the RCSI community in supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals – with a particular focus on Goal 3, which targets good health and well-being. For each of the last six years, RCSI has been positioned in the Top 300 of universities worldwide in the Times Higher World University Rankings. We are proud to announce that RCSI has ranked first in the world for “Good Health and Well-being” in the Times Higher Education #SDG Impact Rankings 2023. This reflects our commitment to supporting people of all ages to live healthy lives and our work to promote the concepts of well-being and positive health. Our values of R espect, C ollaboration, S cholarship and I nnovation continue to unite and direct our purpose. Objective of this post: The principal aim of this post is to act as the medical ‘Clinical Lead’ to develop curriculum resources using the Virtual Patient (VP) software for use across RCSI Schools and sites. This role will involve consultation with curriculum leads in Schools to prioritise clinical topics and to design relevant and engaging VPs in accordance with learners needs. It is expected that the VP solutions will provide rich scope for evaluation of impact and learning outcomes, research, and publication. The post will also provide medical education input into other HPEC educational activities, as relevant.The post and project environment requires a clinical background, resourcefulness and flexibility, strong coordination skills, and an ability to collaborate effectively with multiple stakeholders. Overall Aim The role centres around virtual patients (VPs) and ensuring VP learning solutions are utilised to the maximum in teaching and learning at RCSI principally for medical students but also across schools and sites. Specific responsibilities
1. Develop new VPs, to align with the curriculum across the Schools
2. Update previous VPs with evidence-based practice and align with learner needs
3. Collaborate with faculty and clinicians to ensure the VP learning solutions are fully and appropriately developed for integration within courses
4. Interact with other schools to maximise the utility of VP modules and solutions e.g. Physician Associates, Physiotherapy, etc
5. Work within the affordances of the RCSI system and license.
6. Engage with the evaluation and research effort in HPEC
7. Contribute to medical education activities of HPEC as relevant
8. Represent the best interests of HPEC and RCSI at all times.
Person Specification
9. Qualified medical practitioner
10. Comfortable with, or prepared to learn VP software and technology
11. Excellent communication skills
12. Strong commitment to own personal and professional development.
13. Well-developed time-management skills in order to manage multiple tasks and working relationships effectively.
14. Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships.
15. A proven ability to work both independently and as a member of a team
16. Uses initiative and has ability to deliver against timelines and deadlines
We are all too aware that imposter syndrome and the confidence gap can sometimes stop fantastic candidates putting themselves forward, so please do submit an application — we’d love to hear from you.