United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Family Medicine/Practice Training Programme Coordinator
Family Medicine/Practice Training Programme Coordinator | UK
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title
Family Medicine/Practice Training Programme Coordinator (half-time)
Location
UK (place of work is flexible)
MAP Purpose
MAP works for the health and dignity of Palestinians living under occupation or as refugees
Job Scope
This role will focus on the training components of the family medicine/practice project in oPt; specifically the review/revision of the curriculum for the family medicine residency programme and content of the proposed online transitional training programme in family medicine/practice for current primary health care (PHC) staff.
Reporting To
Director of Programmes (London)
Key Internal Relationships
DoP (London); staff in West Bank office; Programme Officer (London)
Key External Relationships
Foundation for the International Development of Family Medicine in Palestine (FIDFMP); Educational Programme Steering Committee; Ministry of Health (MoH), oPt; UNRWA, oPt; An Najah National University (ANNU), oPt
Salary
£30,840 per annum (pro-rata) plus pension contribution
Contract
Six month fixed term contract initially; to be extended until the end of March 2017 subject to satisfactory project progress
Purpose
To act as the UK based training programme coordinator for the MAP/IDFMP family medicine/practice project, which aims to develop family medicine/practice in Palestine through the education, training and in-service mentoring of doctors and other PHC staff, and key reforms in the system of PHC.
To support other key project staff and volunteers with the review/revision of the curriculum for ANNU’s family medicine residency programme and the development of a transitional training programme for all PHC staff employed by the MoH and UNRWA in oPt.
Key responsibilities
Person Specification
a) Essential requirements
A good first degree in a health-related subject (nursing, medicine, midwifery, pharmacy etc.)
A postgraduate qualification in health education, public health or a related subject.
At least two years’ experience in health education, public health or a related field.
Excellent spoken and written English.
Experience of educational course development.
Good interpersonal, communication and networking skills and the ability to work successfully with multiple external and internal partners.
Good IT skills particularly in Word and Excel.
Prepared and able to travel to oPt when required.
b) Desirable requirements
Good spoken and written Arabic.
Knowledge of the health and/or health education system in oPt.
Experience of creating and managing simple databases (Excel or Access).
Experience of developing educational material online.
Experience of developing and/or revising educational material within the health sector.
Background
Palestine has a well-established PHC system. However, the evolving health challenges of the 21st century (an aging population and spiralling rates of non-communicable diseases and mental health problems) together with the increasing costs of specialist services require adaptation of Palestine’s PHC service delivery model toward a family medicine/practice approach to provide continuous, comprehensive, coordinated, person and family-centred care, with a multidisciplinary team responsible for delivery of services to a defined population.
The Palestine MoH has expressed its commitment to implement such a transformation. However, moving toward this new model requires changes at various levels, including the training of family medicine specialists, changes in the organisation and infrastructure of PHC services, and orientation of existing PHC staff toward family practice principles and the modified service delivery model.
ANNU has been delivering a part-time, four-year, post-graduate residency programme for family medicine specialists for a number of years – the only one in Palestine. To date there are 14 Board certified graduates of the programme, with a further two doctors currently waiting to sit the Palestine Medical Council (PMC) Board certification examination and nine residents at various stages of the four year training programme. There is an urgent need to substantially strengthen the programme’s educational curriculum and in particular to improve the quality of clinical training placements for the family medicine residents. Even more importantly there are over 800 GPs, and an even greater number of nurses, pharmacists, midwives and laboratory technicians, currently working in MoH and UNRWA PHC centres in the West Bank without any specialist training in family medicine or family practice. Experience from elsewhere in the world suggests that it could take over 20 years for the entire PHC workforce to complete full specialty training programmes, so it is vital that an appropriately tailored transitional training programme is offered in the short term to the existing workforce to raise standards of care across the region and support the desire of MoH and UNWRA to transform the delivery of services. This in turn will make a huge contribution to the MoH and World Health Organisation (WHO) goal of achieving universal health coverage.
At the heart of the proposed project will be three MoH family medicine training centres, situated in the north, middle and south of the West Bank; with appropriate support these centres will significantly improve the quality of training provided for family medicine residents and provide the perfect environment to pilot the necessary PHC system changes and to deliver the face to face components of the transitional training programme.
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