Details
1097111
Canterbury Christ Church University
27/06/2025
Other - See Job
Various dates in June and July - please see job
Casual
Pay
£14.75
£1.78
Description
Role
We are looking for assessment patients to support during assessments for Kent and Medway Medical School in June and July.
The dates/times we require patients are below:
- Friday 27th June – 08:00 - 17:45
- Tuesday 1st July – 08:00 – 16:30
- Thursday 10th July – TBC
- Monday 14th July – TBC
- Thursday 17th July – TBC
- Friday 18th July - TBC
Please state your availability for the dates listed above in your cover letter.
If you are successful, there will be a 1 hour briefing session via MS Teams in advance.
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