MSc Physio OSCE Invigilation Guys Campus

Job Description

Monday 6th January Guys Campus

Applicants must NOT be part of the Physiotherapy course at King's College London or the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine.

You will be invigilating for Physiotherapy students taking their Objective Structured Clinical Exams (OSCE).

Key responsibilities   

  • To support the Lead Invigilator in carrying out their duties by attending briefing sessions prior to and following exam sessions as required.  
  • To assist with setting up the circuit(s): putting out clipboards, sharp pencils, and rubbers inside each station. 
  • Assist with the set-up of equipment (training will be given for the setting up of props or the resetting of station equipment). 
  • To assist students before the exam begins, ensuring that all students are correctly located and ready for the exam.   
  • To invigilate the examination circuits and guide students between stations during the exam.  
  • Direct examiners, patients, simulated patients to the correct stations. 
  • Be the first response for examiner questions or concerns, raising issues with the lead invigilator or senior examiner quickly and efficiently. 
  • To vigilantly monitor the room/allocated area throughout the exam in session whilst not disrupting the candidates; and ensuring a calm environment conducive to supporting students to be successful in their exams.  
  • To ensure that noise levels on the examination circuit are kept to a minimum and that examination conditions are maintained throughout 
  • To promptly report any incidents that may impact a candidate's performance to the Lead Invigilator, Circuit Lead (Marshall), OSCE Site Lead, or Senior Examiner. 
  • To ensure that, at the end of the exam, all iPads and materials are collected and returned to the relevant place according to set procedures as advised by the Lead Invigilator.   


Qualifications

N/A



Skills
  • Available for Monday 6th January 2025
  • Available for a prompt start at 08:00 to 17:30.
  • Professional.
  • Observant.
  • Shows initiative.
  • Handles confidential documents responsibly.
  • Available for the full duration of the exam.
  • Applicants must NOT be part of the Physiotherapy course at King's College London or the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine.
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Qualifications

No specific qualifications are required for the job. 



Skills

No specific prior experience or skills required. General IT knowledge expected and basic medical knowledge is useful; we will instruct the applicant in the relevant software (Teleform).
 

  1. Support student lifecycle processes from pre-enrolment activities, through induction and registration to graduation and beyond, utilising systems and databases- e.g. student records systems and virtual learning environments ? accordingly, and in accordance with best practice, ensuring consistency of data and identifying and resolving issues. 
  2. Support all student assessment processes in line with university deadlines and regulations and faculty and external requirements. 
  3. Supporting finance processes for the On campus and Distance Learning courses including right to work checks and organising payments to academics.  
  4. Take responsibility for resolving students? and academics? enquiries, including face-to-face and via email, responding within agreed timeframes and escalating complex enquiries as appropriate. 
  5. Organise course timetable?s including organising external staff, room booking and communicating this with students.  
  6. Assist in ensuring that quality assurance requirements and, where required, accreditation requirements are met for relevant programmes.  
  7. Support student, module and programme evaluation processes in line with current university best practice. 
  8. Servicing committees as directed by your line manager. 
  9. Actively participate in the development and improvement of programmes and processes to support students and academic staff through identifying and suggesting improvements based on user feedback. 
  10. Work flexibly as part of a team, supporting others in times of high-volume activity, providing cover and supporting the training and development of new staff members. 
  11. Take responsibility for own performance and development, through agreeing clear performance objectives, maintaining up-to-date knowledge and reflecting on own performance. 
  12. Take personal accountability for the data quality of student records, ensuring records are accurately maintained in accordance with the agreed retention schedules. 
  13. Ensure all work is carried out in a professional and timely manner, with appropriate confidentiality and sensitivity. Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of the data protection requirements. 


Qualifications

None



Skills

1. Excellent written and oral communication skills including the ability to draft documents and correspondence. 

2. Strong numeracy skills and ability to analyse complex numerical data. 

3. Excellent organization and time management skills. 

4. Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages and the ability to work on new systems. 

5. Methodical, detail oriented and flexible in approach to work, maintaining a high level of accuracy. 

6. Ability to work with a broad range of stakeholders in a professional and assured manner. 

7. Proactive with the ability to work independently as well as delivering within a team. 

8. Curious, customer service-oriented approach with a commitment to personal accountability and continuous improvement. 

9. Comfortable with adapting to change, driving own professional development. 

10. Commitment to equality and diversity in the workplace.

11. Experience in the use of databases, student records systems (such as SITS) and website content management systems. 

12. Prior experience of working in a customer facing environment.

13. Experience of using virtual learning environments.

  1. To support the Supervisor to achieve the day-to-day tasks, by understanding individual and team tasks, working to deliver an effective and efficient service and supporting colleagues to ensure that all tasks and services are supported therefore contributing to individual and team metrics/KPIs.  
  2. To establish and maintain good working relationships with all stakeholders, providing advice, information, signposting and sharing specialist knowledge with all team colleagues relating the school portfolio that they have been allocated in that academic year. Supporting different portfolios as needed, which will allocated by the Supervisor and/or Coordinator using a data led approach and rotated yearly as appropriate.  
  3. To play an active role in ensuring that the team provide excellent customer service, ensuring they are contributing to the continual enhancement of services offered by highlight processes, procedures or policies that are not easily administrable, identifying any barriers and possible solutions.     
  4. Responding to enquiries in a timely, calm, sensitive and informative manner through the variety of platforms available to students, providing advice and information relating to extenuating circumstances and attendance monitoring, making sure the information provided is accurate and escalating complex queries or concerns with the Student Engagement Supervisor / Coordinator.  
  5. Supporting the attendance monitoring process by completing weekly reviews, identifying students not meeting the attendance/engagement thresholds, sending out emails/appointments as per the policy, making calls, managing a case load of students, writing up all actions in the CRM, making appointments with appropriate members of academic staff (in line with the policy) to complete attendance review panels, recording this information and completing all follow up work.  
  6. Working collaboratively with Schools to support students ?at risk? of non-continuation by providing timely and effective interventions to re-engage the student with their studies, adopting a mentoring and coaching approach to support the students to achieve their full potential.  
  7. Completion of interruption and withdrawal procedures as a result of continued poor engagement, making sure to liaise with appropriate key stakeholders and providing weekly/monthly reports on student engagement and non-continuation (withdrawals and interruptions).  
  8. Working on a continual basis to review and support the extenuating circumstances process, ensuring the queries are responded to, decisions made, and communicated, complex cases are resolved, all decisions are appropriately recorded, with all stakeholders informed, providing reports relating to the volume of queries and completion of tasks in line with SLAs.  
  9. Responsible for delivering ad hoc activities that contribute to continuation, progression, and successful student outcomes across the University.   

  

This list is not exhaustive. The post holder will be expected to carry out relevant and related tasks as commensurate with the current grade and agreed with the Head of Student Administration or their nominee.  



Qualifications

Please see above 



Skills

Person specification / Selection criteria 

  1. Practical administration experience working in a higher education setting, supporting and resolving students/customer concerns both face to face and online.   
  2. Experience of supporting and resolving students concerns both face to face and online with an experience of and/or understanding the current issues facing students including the barriers and challenges to engagement.  
  3. Experience of managing a student caseload using data to target support providing mentoring and coaching support.  
  4. Experience of maintaining accurate records, the use the IT systems/software to input, store and where appropriate gather data.  
  5. To be able to use own initiative to plan, prioritise and organise own varied workload, in a timely manner, to approach challenges/problems in a creative and proactive way.  
  6. To operate flexibly either as part of a team or independently.  
  7. Excellent organisational and administrative skills and to cope with high volumes of work and work as a team during stressful periods in the academic year in a calm and efficient manner.  
  8. Good customer service/relationship skills, dealing sensitively with enquiries from a diverse range of individuals, and de-escalate and manage potentially difficult or conflict situations calmly and with confidence.  
  9. Experience of servicing committee meetings, both in preparation and minute taking, and following up matters raised in meetings.  
  10. To be committed to and have experience of the application of ICT in administration. Knowledge of word processing, databases and spreadsheets and of the use of the web. Willingness and ability to learn new packages in order to carry out the duties of the role.  

 

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