Director of GP Undergraduate Teaching (Clinical Senior Lecturer): (Company Name - Subscribers only)

Job Description:

Salary Range – ACN3: £96,963 – £128,841.00 Per Annum Pro Rata.

CMVM / MGPHS / USHER Institute.

Open Ended Contract – Permanent.

Part Time – 16 Hours per week / 0.4FTE.

Location: Usher Institute (Edinburgh Bioquarter)

The Centre for Population Health Sciences at the Usher Institute within The (Company Name - Subscribers only) is looking for a Director of GP Undergraduate Teaching. This will be a 0.4FTE appointment

The Opportunity:

This is an excellent opportunity for a GP with skills in medical education to lead undergraduate GP teaching at the (Company Name - Subscribers only). The postholder will take over leadership of a dynamic group of GP teachers, and engage in the delivery and strategic development of General Practice at the university. The MBChB curriculum at the (Company Name - Subscribers only) is going through a period of significant transformation; the postholder will have the opportunity to support the university in its ambitions to deliver more medical teaching in the community, and graduate more doctors with a passion for working in clinical and/or academic general practice.

Informal enquiries may be directed to David Weller, Professor of General Practice david.weller@ed.ac.uk and/or Karen Fairhurst, Professor of Student Learning in Primary Care karen.fairhurst@ed.ac.uk

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Strong track record in excellence as an undergraduate medical educator, with experience of course design and implementation.
• An experienced GP with wide clinical knowledge and leadership skills (Desirable).
• An appropriate postgraduate qualification – eg PGCE or equivalent; higher degree in education (eg MSc in Medical Education); Membership/Fellowship of Higher Education Academy (Desirable).
• Well organised, with demonstrable managerial ability and the experience of working unsupervised
• Experience of contributing to and working collaboratively with a variety of teams (Desirable).

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Click to access our (opens new browser tab) for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

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– where inquiring minds work together to improve lives across the world.

Join our growing team of academics and professional services staff and work in a vibrant, multi-disciplinary environment. Our vision is to catalyse the transformation of health in society by working with people, populations and their data.

Our greatest asset is our people, working together to improve public health using evidence-based research.

We are a key applied and translational arm of the Edinburgh Medical School, within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at The (Company Name - Subscribers only). Working with partners across UK and international universities, health and care providers, policymakers, industry and the public is central to our highly collaborative ethos.

The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa.

About Us: As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

About the Team:

The Usher Institute works with people, populations and their data to understand and advance the health of individuals and populations through innovative collaborations in a global community. Our Director is Professor Aziz Sheikh OBE, and we sit within the Edinburgh Medical School in the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at The (Company Name - Subscribers only).

Working with partners across the NHS, policymakers, industry partners and the public is central to our highly collaborative ethos. Three core research centres in Global Health, Medical Informatics and Population Health Sciences are at the heart of the Usher Institute; also home to the Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit and a bustling General Practice, the Mackenzie Medical Centre.

The Usher Institute is a truly interdisciplinary environment. Around 350 researchers and support staff with expertise in a varied range of methodologies and topics contribute to world-leading research in global health, population health sciences and medical informatics. Our research expertise is at the heart of the excellent educational experience we offer in a wide range of taught and research postgraduate programmes, both online and on-campus, our programme of continuing professional development and in our contribution to the undergraduate medical degree.

We maintain an open, engaging and dynamic environment and welcome collaborations from around the globe.

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