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Education Faculty
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Multi-Professional Educator Groups (MPEGs)
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NCL Supervision Toolkit
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Communities of Practice and Subject Expert Groups
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Education Faculty Resources
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Events Calendar
Education Faculty
What is the Education Faculty?
The Education Faculty is comprised of faculty programme directors across NCL’s five Boroughs who work together to design and grow education workshops and resources, either as standalone workshops on a local footprint, or for pan NCL events. Much of the education is in Borough Multi-Professional Educator Groups (MPEGs) on a Teach-The-Teacher model; you will have access to narrated slides, videos, facilitator notes and lesson plans to disseminate learning and share with your practice teams, groups and networks.
Meet your borough Faculty Programme Directors
Dr Rakhee Shah is the clinical lead for multi-professional education for Barnet. Alongside her clinical practice as a GP she also supports the delivery of teaching to a wide range of the primary care workforce including GP assistants, GP nurses and Health Care Support workers. She is also involved in the UCL medical student teaching programme. Rakhee is particularly interested in creating multi-professional learning groups and helping to identify and nurture educators from all professional backgrounds.
Chaima Hale is a Physician Associate, working in a Camden GP practice, and the co-lead educator for Camden. Chaima is also the Health Education England Physician Associate Ambassador for North Central London. Chaima is keen to develop quality assured guidance frameworks for supervision and training of multi-professional teams. Chaima aims to create an inclusive and supportive network for multi-professional clinical supervisors within the borough.
Dr Gemma Bailey is a salaried GP working in Enfield and is the Enfield lead educator. Gemma works with the GP fellowship programme in Enfield, providing education and support to newly qualified GPs. She also works with undergraduates in the clinical humanities department at King’s Medical School. Gemma mentors first5 GPs on the GP mentor programme and is passionate about the use of coaching to help healthcare workers realise their potential.
Dr Carmel Sher has worked in North London as a GP since 1999. Initially trained in Paediatrics, then moved into General Practice and enjoys all aspects of family medicine. She is involved in Education and Training in Haringey and has been a GP Trainer since 2010, and involved in Clinical Pharmacist training. She is responsible for workforce development within the Haringey Training Hub and has been a GP Appraiser and GP Mentor since 2014. When not working, Carmel can be found either running or cold water swimming in the Ponds.
Dr Rini Paul is a salaried GP in Islington and Islington’s lead educator. Rini is also a Teacher Development Lead at King’s Undergraduate Medical Education in the Community, a GP appraiser and a NCL Clinical Lead for Schwartz Rounds. Rini is interested in inter-professional reflective/learning spaces; mentoring; and equality, diversity and inclusion, particularly race and racism in healthcare.
Collaborate with the Education Faculty
The Education Faculty would like to hear from individuals and groups that wish to collaborate on education content and access the Faculty's education expertise. Please email the Faculty at nclicb.facultyofeducators@nhs.net.
Multi-Professional Educator Groups (MPEGs)
What are Multi-Professional Educator Groups?
Multi-Professional Educator Groups (MPEGs) bring together trainers, educators and supervisors by through local borough education sessions. These MPEG sessions provide education and peer support opportunities for educators and supervisors at all levels and roles in primary care, with opportunities to share challenges and best practice. Each NCL borough runs their own MPEG, led by the local borough faculty Programme Director.
How do I join my borough MPEG?
To join your local MPEG, sign up for forthcoming workshops by selecting the workshop you would like to attend in the Events Calendar Tab on the right hand side of the page. By registering for a session, you will be informed of future MPEG workshops and be invited to join borough WhatsApp chats. You can also contact your local borough Training Hub at the email addresses below to sign up to receive regular communications about forthcoming workshops local education and training updates:
Barnet Training Hub: barnet.cepnadmin@nhs.net
Camden Training Hub: info@communitymatters.co.uk
Enfield Training Hub: nclicb.enfieldtraininghub@nhs.net
Haringey Training Hub: nclicb.haringey.training@nhs.net
Islington Training Hub: igpf.islingtontraininghub@nhs.net
Multi-Professional Educator Group FAQs
MPEGs are open to all roles working in Primary Care. This includes senior educators of all multi-professional roles - in particular colleagues who support, or plan to support, learners with their education, or a role as a clinical supervisor or similar – in addition to junior clinicians and those new to practice. Other non-clinical roles are also welcome to join. MPEG workshops do not require any prior knowledge levels; education that is delivered is relevant to all colleagues wishing to develop skills in a Primary Care role and enhance their CPD, in addition to supporting clinicians in a supervisory or leadership role.
MPEGs meet regularly across the year. Delivery of education is through both online sessions and longer in-person workshops.
Online sessions may occur more frequently, typically monthly or bi-monthly, often for an hour as a lunch and learn workshop.
In-person sessions may occur every quarter or half yearly, at a local venue.
At times, the Education Faculty might also run events which are pan-NCL, and on other occasions your borough will link in with local GP Trainer’s Groups.
MPEGs deliver workshops on a range of topics that are informed by local and national learning needs. These can include topics such as:
Feedback
Understanding multi-disciplinary teams
Supporting learners in difficulty
Neurodiversity
EDI
Psychological safety
And more.
To suggest a topic for an upcoming MPEG, you can reach out to your borough Faculty Programme Director or contact nclicb.facultyofeducators@nhs.net.
MPEGs are communities that offer peer support; they are opportunities to meet colleagues from across your borough and depending on your experience, you might share your experiences and contribute to case studies supporting colleagues.
You will have the opportunity to bring back road-tested resources back to your practice to share with your own team. Education is delivered within a Teach-The-Teacher model; this means you will have access to narrated slides, videos, facilitator notes and lesson plans to disseminate your learning.
There are no pre-requisites to joining your borough MPEG.
MPEGs are a great way to introduce you to different aspects of being an educator, and will help identify some of these aspects that you may already be doing in your daily role.
You do not have to be an approved educator to join; your MPEG can help you with the first steps towards applying for educator approval through the Training Hub, while approved educators can highlight participation when submitting the reflective statements as part of the NHSE PCN Self-Assessment exercise.
NCL Supervision Toolkit
What is the NCL Supervision Toolkit?
The NCL Supervision Toolkit was developed by the NCL Education Faculty as an online resource that offers guidance on how organisations can build and grow effective supervision for their teams and learners.
Case studies, feedback and a consensus on how to support effective supervision from practice teams who have engaged with local MPEG workshops on key supervision skills underpinned the development of the toolkit and the creation of bitesize chapters which include narrated slides and workbooks to watch, download, and work through at the learner’s own pace.
Access the toolkit by clicking below.
Communities of Practice and Subject Expert Groups
The Education Faculty supports the Communities of Practice (COPs) and Subject Expert Groups to connect clinicians and teams through shared experiences, and the exchanging of ideas on clinical and universal topics to positively impact on care delivery across NCL.
You can join our existing groups, or if there is different subject specialism that you would like to share with the wider workforce, then you can propose a new group engage with the Education Faculty to develop a strategy for sharing learning.
To find out more information about COPs and Subject Expert Groups, please click below.
Education Faculty Resources
The Education Faculty designs and collates resources for multi-professional educators to use when training and supervising colleagues. Where appropriate, sessions come complete with lesson plans, slides and facilitator notes, and can be found in our resources page (NHS email address required).
To access these, please click the button below.
Events Calendar
Please select the sessions below that you would like to attend
