Healthcare Improvement Clinical Lead, ScotGEM - UOD1816

Scottish Graduate Entry Medicine (ScotGEM)

1 session Permanent

GP Advisor salary scale (AA00-AA03)

Clinical Lecturer/Senior Lecturer

Scottish Graduate Entry Medicine (ScotGEM) is an innovative 4-year graduate entry medical programme, designed to train doctors as generalists and in rural practice. Our first cohort graduated in 2022.

ScotGEM offers case-based learning in the early years supported by the new Generalist Clinical Mentor (GCM) role designed to form the backbone of clinical training and offer a positive generalist role model. In year 3 ScotGEM employs a General Practice (GP) based Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) where they undertake a significant Healthcare Improvement project and significant event analysis. In Year 4 students undertake a Healthcare Improvement Block and undertake an Adverse Event Review. These specific activities form part of the ‘Agents of Change’ curriculum which seeks to equip future healthcare leaders with additional skills in healthcare improvement, prescribing and therapeutics, public health, service learning and informatics.

You will join an experienced, enthusiastic team and contribute to the delivery and future development the Healthcare Improvement components of the Agents of Change course. This will involve working effectively with an extensive range of colleagues from the universities of Dundee and St Andrews, with both enjoying international reputations for excellence, as well as those in our partner health boards of NHS Fife, Tayside, Dumfries and Galloway and Highland.

Who we’re looking for:

• An experienced clinical medical educator with significant experience in healthcare improvement to be based at the University of Dundee and able to travel across Scotland.
• An enthusiastic advocate for the ScotGEM rural generalist mission.
• A highly effective, collaborative worker with excellent communication skills
• Ongoing clinical commitment (contracted separately,support available to arrange if required).

The University of Dundee is a signatory of the Researcher Development Concordat and is committed to enhancing the research environment and culture. Engagement and support of activities which assist the researcher development agenda at the University is therefore essential.

For further information about this position please contact the ScotGEM Agents of Change Director, Angela Flynn (af238@st-andrews.ac.uk) or the ScotGEM Y3&4 Lead/Deputy Programme Director, Dr Lloyd Thompson (l.thompson@dundee.ac.uk , 01382 386678). To find out more please visit the ScotGEM Website.

University of Dundee • Dundee, DD1 4HN • Scotland, UK t: +44 (0)1382 383081 w: dundee.ac.uk

Registered Scottish Charity No: SC015096

The salary offered will reflect your current level within the NHS and your experience within education. We are keen to protect colleagues' work/life balance by ensuring this workload does not result in more than 12 programmed activities per week.

The diversity of ourstaff and students helpsto make the University of Dundee a UK university of choice for undergraduate, postgraduate and distance learning. Family friendly policies, staff networks for BME, Disabled and LGBT staff, membership of Athena SWAN, the ECU Race Equality.

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