King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Director of Medical Education

Mr Tunji Lasoye

Clinical Tutor

Mr Tunji Lasoye

Foundation Training Programme Director(s)

Dr Jane Evans

Careers Tutor(s)

Dr Jane Evans
Mr Tunji Lasoye
Dr Catherine Bryant
Dr Simon Broughton

Medical Education Manager

Miss Corinne Trim

Medical Staffing Manager

Ms Linda Sodergren

Foundation Programme Administrator(s)

Mrs Sheinaz Mahomedally

Postgraduate Centre

There is a purpose-built Postgraduate Conference Centre providing a venue for postgraduate medical and dental activities within the Trust. The Centre comprises a fully equipped lecture theatre and three seminar rooms:

Bill Whimster lecture theatre
Seats 80 people, equipped with latest audio-visual facilities.

Clare Vaughan seminar room
Seats 60 people with audio-visual equipment available. There is an acoustic partition dividing the area into 30/30 seating capacity.

Simulation Facility
Seats 15, audio-visual facilities available.
 
The Buttery
Refreshment area, seats 35 at small round tables. Catering is supplied by King’s College London.

Accommodation

The accommodation office can assist F1 trainees in sourcing housing association properties and should contact the accommodation office with their requirements.

Social activities

We have a very pro-active Doctors MESS Committee who are keen for those subscribing to have plenty of opportunity to socialise and unwind, including a football society, and monthly evening events.

Doctors' mess

The Doctors’ MESS at King’s provides a relaxing environment for our doctors, with SKY, a kitchen regularly stocked with fresh fruit, bread and milk, and newspapers. A number of social events through the year. There is also an opportunity for junior doctors to be members of the MESS Committee. 

Library facilities

As an employee of King’s College Hospital you will have access to the Information Services & Systems (ISS) at King’s College London. This service provides integrated IT and information services enabling access to an extensive range of tools and research and teaching resources.  Within the Weston Education Centre we have one of the five Information Services Centers and libraries, which are located across the five main campuses offering subject-specific resources with help and advice from qualified staff.

Information Specialists work to ensure students and researchers can locate the most up to date resources available – either online or in print. We aim to provide a world-class e-research service and 24/7 access to e-resources.

Underpinning this drive towards 24 hour access is the College’s IT infrastructure. ISS maintains the desktop network and telephony system throughout the College. Audio Visual services are also part of the portfolio. Through the three year Connected Campus project, now in its second year, ISS are facilitating greater connectivity across campuses to offer increased access to research resources and enhanced opportunities for collaboration.

IT facilities

Within the MESS there is a separate room where there are 5 web-enabled PCs (installed Nov 2008) and a networked printer. 

Other facilities (Recreational or otherwise)

no information available

Local amenities/attractions

Close proximity/easy access to Central London and Dulwich Village.

Transport links

King’s is located in Camberwell in central London, with good public transport links.

Parking arrangements

no information available

Accolades/achievements of the trust

King’s College Hospital is part of a pioneering global collaboration, King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC).   This collaboration between one of the world’s leading research-led universities, King’s College London, and three of London’s most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, King’s College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ is an exciting opportunity.    The driving purpose of which is to continually seek and bring about swifter and more effective improvements in health and well-being for our patients in London and people everywhere. Combining the best of basic and translational research, clinical excellence and world-class teaching to deliver groundbreaking advances in physical and mental healthcare.

Any additional information

King’s College Hospital is a large Teaching Hospital and NHS Foundation Trust situated in South Central London. It provides healthcare for residents of a densely populated surrounding locality, as well as many tertiary services for South-East England and beyond.
Our Department is based within the Weston Education Centre, situated next to King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill.  This affords us the luxury of a well-equipped Postgraduate Conference Centre, within close proximity of the library facilities of Kings College London as well as the King’s Hospital.

Induction/shadowing arrangements

At King’s we provide the FY1 trainees with a mandatory week of shadowing and key Induction elements which is fully funded. The week long experience provides the opportunity for trainees to work alongside the FY1 from whom they will be taking over from and gain an insight into the role and responsibilities of a junior doctor have firsthand experience of working with other members of the team, communicating with patients and developing an understanding of how the NHS generally works. They also have key induction training on ILS, ALERT, EPR, EPMA, Infection Control and e-Portfolio. 

Educational and clinical supervision

Trainees are allocated an Educational Supervisor for the year and for each placement they are placed with the lead consultant of their team for Clinical Supervision.

Teaching programme

Since August 2008 we have had 51 F1 and 39 F2 trainees at King’s. The majority of F1 rotations comprise four 3 month placements, whilst some F1 and all F2 rotations consist of three 4 month placements. All F2 rotations include an Accident and Emergency placement.
There is protected, bleep free teaching for all F1’s at lunchtime once a week, in addition to which there are several half-day workshops. The F2 teaching programme includes ALS, a two day ‘F2 Professional Development’ course, specialised career sessions, interactive clinical teaching and access to a multitude of specialty teaching programmes across the Trust.  We also host a Careers Fair each year where our more senior doctors spend time talking to trainees about careers and their experiences. This event is well evaluated by our foundation trainees. Trainees also can access our more generic courses like Teaching the Teachers. There is a substantial team within the Department of Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education (PGMDE), several of whom work almost exclusively for the Foundation Training Programme. One of the unique roles within the foundation team is the Clinical Facilitator who works to support the foundation trainees in their clinical and educational environment. Although we have a large number of Foundation Trainees, we pride ourselves on looking after the individual needs of each of them.

Tasters

All Foundation trainees have the opportunity to do a ‘taster’ of their choice in any specialty within the Trust, or outside the Trust if necessary. For further information and guidance please see the STFS website.

Simulation

Simulation training will be provided at King’s College Hospital in a dedicated simulator training facility. In addition we host half day simulation sessions and evening clinical topics of interest for our foundation trainees.

Foundation doctor forums

no information available

Any additional information

King’s College Hospital has become the first major acute hospital in the UK to be awarded the Investors in People (IIP) Gold Standard award.
Investors in People is a national quality standard awarded to well-run organisations which demonstrate good management practice with a high emphasis on best practice people management and development.
King’s first achieved Investors in People status in 1999, but this is the first time it has been recognised with the Gold award – a significant achievement.

The Gold award is only given to those organisations which are able to demonstrate a degree of excellence in the way they develop and support their staff.
Angela Huxham, Executive Director for Workforce Development at King's commented;
"Achieving Gold standard is a tremendous achievement for the Trust. Our people are at the heart of everything we do for our patients at King's. Their individual skill and commitment are crucial in delivering quality services; we want our staff to continue to feel supported and valued, whatever their role, and we will continue to help them develop their potential."
PGMDE held their third annual Foundation Training Programme Awards Ceremony on 19th July 2011 for the FY1 & FY2 trainees. We were proud to have amongst us distinguished guests who gave inspirational talks to the Foundation trainees. These included the Chief Executive, Executive Board Members, Executive Medical Director, Director of the STFS and the Directors of PGMDE. Certificates of merit were awarded from South Thames Foundation School for contribution and progress in Learning Portfolio, Audit, Teaching and Leadership and an Outstanding Trainee of the year. Trainees were also awarded by King’s for their leadership skills, team working, pharmacy and for those who were truly outstanding. Alongside these merits the trainees acknowledged the hard work of the Trainers; awards were also presented to those Trainers who have provided teaching and support to the foundation trainees throughout the year. There was also an impressive display of Audit posters and the winner was awarded a prize. These merits/awards are agreed by the Foundation Training Faculty who work hard to ensure that trainees progress and are given the right support and wish to acknowledge outstanding trainees.

Our commitment to training was demonstrated in the 2008 PMETB National trainee survey,  in which F2 trainees at King’s recommended their posts more highly than at any other Trust in London.