Staff Development

Training Opportunities

The Faculty continues to work with Imperial College Centre for Education Development (CED) to provide training courses for teachers. The Faculty supports a 50% post within CED (plus clerical support) predominantly aimed at developing teaching skills within the Faculty and its NHS teachers.

Recognition of Teaching

Recognition of teaching is carried out through the establishment of an Award for Teaching Excellence scheme for NHS teachers, mirroring the College Awards for Excellence in Teaching scheme for academic staff.

Appraisal

Appraisal of non-clinical staff has evolved into Performance Review and Personal Development (PRDP).

There is an appraisal scheme for clinical staff (joint academic and NHS), for which agreements are in place between the NHS Trusts and Imperial College.  The agreement between the NHS Trusts and College comply with the recommendations of Follett (Department for Education and Skills, 2001), and the College has adapted the NHS appraisal form to satisfy the revalidation requirements of both the GMC and the NHS. Imperial College London was the first Medical Faculty to adapt the NHS form in this way and it was used as the basis for the national agreement brokered by Universities and Colleges Employers' Association /Council of Heads of Medical Schools.

Teaching Appointments

The Head of Undergraduate Medicine sits on the Faculty of Medicine Human Resources Committee. One of this Committee's tasks is to scrutinise all new appointments and ensure that the proposed research of the new individual fits with the Faculty Research Strategy, and that the proposed teaching fits with the Faculty teaching needs (both Undergraduate and Postgraduate).