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Question Writer for Foundation Training Recruitment (Oriel)

Job details
Posting date: 12 April 2024
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 26 April 2024
Location: London, UK
Remote working: Fully remote
Company: Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Job type: Temporary
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Summary

Salary: An honorarium of £250 will be made for each set of ten questions developed and signed off.

Purpose

The RPS are looking to develop practice situational judgment test (SJT) questions to support pharmacy students to prepare for their foundation training placement applications through Oriel.

To achieve this, we are looking to recruit seven question writers to develop multiple scenarios that reflect likely situations in practice.

Time commitment and responsibilities

Each questions writer must commit to:

Attending a 60 - 90 minute virtual training session in late May/June
Writing and peer reviewing 10 questions each with a rationale which align to the attributes from the Foundation Trainee Pharmacist Professional Attributes Framework (PAF):
Person centred care
Multi-professional working and leadership
Profession integrity and ethics
Problem solving, clinical analysis and decision making
Communication skills

You will need to ensure that you are available from May – November 2024.

Question developers will be instructed by the RPS of the areas of the PAF the questions must assess.

All questions developed will need to be signed off as meeting the RPS question development quality standards prior to being accepted into the question bank.

Criteria

Question writers should meet the following criteria:

Registered pharmacist with the GPhC (essential)
Currently working in pharmacy practice (essential)
Highly organised with the ability to work towards and meet deadlines (essential)
Strong written literacy skills (essential)
Prior experience of question writing (desirable)

Closing date: 6pm on 26 April 2024

If you would like to learn more about the role, please view our careers page.

We are passionate about creating a culture of belonging, inclusion, and diversity these are part of our core values at RPS and we are striving to have an organisation that represents the diversity of the profession. At RPS we do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, age, or disability and we encourage applications from all backgrounds.

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