1. SAS Tutors Development
Challenges of surviving in the face of
dwindling direct HEE finding
Prof Sheona Macleod, PG Dean, HEEM
Prof Jonathan Beard, RCS
Yohanna Takwoingi, SAS Tutor Rep, NACT UK Council
Liz Spencer, Education Adviser, NACT UK.
3 October 2017

2. Objectives Update on National & Regional issues
Review your role in light of recent developments
Opportunity to learn & share from other Tutors
Consider how you need to act / develop
to ensure “value”

3. Locally Employed Doctors - the NACT UK document

6. In groups Discuss who are locally employed doctors
What concerns do you have about them
What support do you offer these doctors
NOW WHAT?...

7. May 2017

8. The GMC GPC model

9. Full list of GPC domains:
Domain 1: Professional values and behaviours
Domain 2: Professional skills
Domain 3: Professional knowledge
Domain 4: Health promotion and illness prevention
Domain 5: Leadership and team working
Domain 6: Patient safety and quality improvement
Domain 7: Safeguarding vulnerable groups
Domain 8: Education and training
Domain 9: Research and scholarship

10. 1: Professional values & behaviours
Demonstrate openness and honesty in interactions with patients & employers
Managing time and resources effectively
Demonstrate emotional resilience
Demonstrate situational awareness
Reflect on own behaviour and its impact on others ……
…….etc

11. 2: Professional skills Practical Skills Communication & interpersonal
Dealing with complexity & uncertainty
Clinical skills (consent, pescribing, humane interventions etc) ……
…….etc

12. 3: Professional knowledge
Professional requirements
Up to date with GMC guidance
CPD & revalidation
Working within quality management & clinical governance frameworks
National legislative requirements
Employment law, MCA, data protection
The health service and healthcare systems
Local healthcare & relationship with social care
Managing resources and avoiding waste
Public accountability through public scrutiny and judicial review

13. 4: Capabilities in health promotion and illness prevention
Principles of public health, population health, health and wellbeing
Global health
Factors affecting health inequalities and social determinants of health ……
…….etc

14. 5: Capabilities in leadership and teamworking
Demonstrate leadership responsibilities as a clinican
Adapt leadership behaviour to improve engagement
Appreciate their leadership behaviour and impact on others
Supervising and challenging colleagues & peers to enhance development ……
…….etc

15. 6: Capabilities in patient safety and quality improvement
Raise concerns through governance systems
Promote and participate in interprofessional learning
Understand fixation error, unconscious and cognitive biases
Reflect on personal behaviour and practice ……
…….etc

16. 7: Capabilities in safeguarding vulnerable groups
Apply equality & diversity legislation
Identify and escalate concerns about modern slavery and human trafficking to appropriate authorities
Understand positive behavioural support and determine when and how to restrain… ……
…….etc

17. 8: Capabilities in education and training
Plan and provide effective education and traning activities
Take part in own induction and that of new staff
Provide supportive feedback writtena nd verbally to learners
Evaluate and reflect on the effectiveness of their educational activities ……
…….etc

18. 9: Capabilities in research and scholarship
Conduct literature searches and reviews to inform their professional practice
Critically appraise academic literature
Adapt leadership behaviour to improve engagement
Understand and promote innovation in healthcare
Understand informatics, genomics etc ……
…….etc

19. In groups discuss the document and what you need to / could do with it?
May 2017

20. GPC domains: Domain 2: Professional skills
Domain 1: Professional values and behaviours
Domain 2: Professional skills
Domain 3: Professional knowledge
Domain 4: Health promotion and illness prevention
Domain 5: Leadership and team working
Domain 6: Patient safety and quality improvement
Domain 7: Safeguarding vulnerable groups
Domain 8: Education and training
Domain 9: Research and scholarship

21. Your role In pairs: Are your roles well defined?
Do you know your responsibilities?
For your Trust?
For the Deanery or other organisation?
Do others understand what you do?

22. Roles and Responsibilities
NACT UK Job Description for SAS Tutor
HEE JD for SAS Tutor
HEE JD for SAS Specialty Lead

23. Expanded Role of SAS Tutor
Champion for SAS doctors & Chair of SAS doctor Forum
Raising profile of SAS doctors by engaging Trust Board, Medical Director and Business Managers
Responsibility for ensuring relevant standards regarding SAS are met, e.g engagement with appraisal
Support for ALL non-consultant non-training doctors in Trust including LEDs
Support and advice to SAS doctors in difficulty in conjunction with CD
Development and support of Specialty LED Leads
Who are overseeing support of SAS and LED in dept
And, And…..

24. Redefine Your Role In pairs: What could be your role?
What do you need to do to achieve this?
How will you go about it?

25. Closure Personal Reflection Evaluation of course
What have you learnt
What are you going to do / change?
What are your development needs
Evaluation of course
Certificate will be ed
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