Clinical Teaching Fellow within Undergraduate Medical Education

Job responsibilities

INFORMATION ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

The Clinical Teaching Fellow role exists to support, develop, and deliver undergraduate medical education within Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust (LTHT) to University of Leeds Medical Students.

This role is based at The Undergraduate Hub (The Hub), St James's University Hospital (SJUH) but will involve work across the Trust sites.

The Hub plays a crucial role in the student experience at LTHT and is well recognised by students for not only delivering a quality core curriculum but also as a place that promotes individualised learning and student support. Each year the Clinical Teaching Fellows develop a dynamic and high-quality teaching programme that is in line with educational reform, educational theory, and gold standard guidelines. This work is completed with the guidance of Senior Educators and is underpinned by the team's dedication to innovation and collaboration within the Trust.

The Clinical Teaching Fellow role is an exciting role which provides a range of excellent opportunities for clinicians to develop their teaching, leadership, and personal development skills.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Please see Person Specification

DUTIES OF THE POST & Levels of Responsibility

Student Experience

1. Scope to work with all years of undergraduate medical students on clinical placements, with the predominant workload being 3rd year students

2. To deliver teaching for The Undergraduate Hub programme in line with the University of Leeds MBChB curriculum:

a. The Hubs current programme themes include:

History and examination skills

Practical skills and procedures

Clinical reasoning

Communication skills

Prescribing

Recognition and Responding to Acute Patient Illness and Deterioration (RRAPID)

Inter-professional learning

b. Teaching methods currently in use:

Face-to-face small group classroom or bedside teaching

More bespoke 1-to-1 sessions

Simulation

Bedside

3. To participate in ongoing programme evaluation and development

4. To ensure education is delivered to the highest quality, in line with The Hub ethos and departmental strategy

5. To provide individualised support to students, for example to:

Appreciate and adapt to the needs of individual students and their unique circumstances

Identify students who may be struggling or have additional/different learning or support needs

Refer students as appropriate to services providing further support

Research and Innovation

1. Where need is identified, innovate, and develop new teaching methods and materials

2. Develop and deliver teaching with innovative technologies that will facilitate teaching

3. Contribute to research, audit and continuing professional development (CPD) activities

Personal Development

1. Support is available for study towards Post Graduate Certificate in Medical Education (or diploma modules if PGCert completed)

2. Management and leadership

o Active engagement with The Hub management team

o Collaboration with the wider education faculty both within the Trust and University

Further Potential Opportunities

1. OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examinations) examination (formative and summative)

2. Quality improvement work

This is a 12-month fixed term contract to provide an out of training opportunity to develop education skills

Start date: 7th August 2024

Qualifications

Essential

• MBChB or equivalent medical qualification

Desirable

• Evidence of CPD in educational courses
• PgCert/ PGDip/Masters in education related course or similar
• Educational Prize

Eligibility, Fitness to practice, and Language Skills

Essential

• Full GMC registration,
• Have evidence of achievement of foundation competences via methods shown in person spec
• Eligibility to work in the UK
• Complete details of employment history
• Is up-to-date and is aware of own training needs.
• Fit to practise safely
• Demonstrates clarity in written/spoken communication, being able to adapt language as appropriate

Experience

Essential

• Evidence that career progression is consistent with personal circumstances
• Evidence that present achievement and performance is commensurate with totality of their period of training
• Evidence of self-reflective practice
• Evidence of regular participation in audit or quality improvement work

Desirable

• Evidence of high-quality self-reflective practice with evidence of learning
• Evidence of educational audit or quality improvement work
• Evidence of local presentation/publication of educational work
• Evidence of national presentation/publication of educational work
• Evidence of international presentation/publication of educational work

Clinical, Academic, and Personal Skills

Essential

• Experience of teaching undergraduate medical students
• Willingness and enthusiasm to develop teaching skills
• Experience in providing feedback
• Ability to foster a supportive learning environment
• Awareness of different teaching methodologies
• Able to work well in multi-professional teams
• Excellent time management, organisational and prioritisation skills

Desirable

• Evidence of working with local tutors to organise a teaching programme (series of sessions) on which I regularly taught over a period of approximately three months or longer, with evidence.
• Evidence of providing regular teaching as part of a defined course, over a period of approximately three months or longer, with evidence.
• Evidence of teaching occasionally with evidence.
• Experience of teaching in a variety of settings
• Experience in a variety of teaching styles
• Experience of facilitating simulation-based medical education
• Evidence of attending debrief course or similar
• Evidence of reflection on teaching
• Portfolio of feedback from learners on teaching
• Evidence of work in multiprofessional team

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).