Details
1080777
Canterbury Christ Church University
01/07/2024
Other - See Job
1st July - 19th July (see job)
Casual
Pay
£14.00
£1.69
Description
Role
We need assessment patients to support Kent and Medway Medical School assessments during July.
- 1st July
- 3rd July
- 5th July
- 9th July
- 16th July
- 17th July
- 18th July
If you are successful, there will be a 1 hour briefing session via MS teams in advance. You must confirm whether you are available to work on the dates below in your cover letter.
Please note, being an assessment patient is a busy role. In many cases you will be assessed by a new students every 10 minutes, with up to 45 assessments a day.
Duties and responsibilities
- Patients in these roles will be undergoing physical clinical examinations. Examples could include blood pressure, or listening to heart sounds with stethoscope, applying sticky electrodes to the chest (ECG) etc.
- Patients in these roles may need to remove items of clothing depending on the clinical examination (as you would expect to do at a GP consultation), there are no intimate procedures.
- Patients in these roles will be subject to the same procedure repeated throughout the day, this will involve being in close contact/examined by Medical students under supervision of an examiner.
- Due to the nature of the examinations and the learning outcomes being assessed, you will be examined by both male and female students.
- This will not require you to have any invasive procedures e.g. blood taking using a needle, but you may be acting as a patient whilst a practical stimulated task trainer (plastic mannikin) is used for the procedure.
- You will need to follow a simple script provided by KMMS which will need to be repeated a number of times throughout the day.
Skills and experience
- Customer service experience and being comfortable engaging with others.
- You must be 18+
- You must disclose any underlying health conditions (so you can be selected for an appropriate station).
- You must disclose any conflict of interest, for example if you know a KMMS student in a professional or personal capacity.
Location
CCCU, Canterbury
Additional information
Please note, if you are offered and accept this role, your name and email address will be shared with other workers in these assignments.