Job summary
Join the forward-thinking and dynamic Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at UCLH as a Trust Fellow in Education and Anaesthesia. This 12-month fellowship is an exceptional opportunity for an enthusiastic, driven clinician to shape and deliver outstanding education while maintaining a fulfilling clinical practice. You will play a key role in promoting excellence by designing, delivering and evaluating high-quality training across anaesthesia and perioperative medicine.
Working in close partnership with UCL, our department offers a rich educational portfolio, blending digital and face-to-face delivery. Highlights include an award-winning MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) series developed with UCL Digital Education and hosted on FutureLearn (reaching over 80,000 learners globally), alongside a busy local programme including resident teaching, an airway management forum (Airway Hub), a quality improvement forum (QI Hub), dedicated regional anaesthesia Sono Club teaching and several simulation courses.
This fellowship combines an equal mix of clinical duties and protected time for educational development, giving you the space to contribute to, and expand, established teaching programmes while building your own portfolio of educational projects, take part in curriculum design and evaluation, and develop senior leadership and management skills.
Start date: Wednesday 5th August 2026
Main duties of the job
The Fellowship post is for a split Clinical and Education Fellowship and will involve 50% of protected time on educational activities and 50% on clinical duties, including an on-call commitment
Clinical duties will include sessions in areas of personal interest and will be dependent upon departmental needs. Fellows will also be given the opportunity to run appropriate elective lists independently to build their clinical practice.
On call commitments are typically 1 in 9, covering theatres and/or the labour ward. Where the on-call rota is full, an alternative rota will apply - this will be discussed beforehand should it apply.
The successful candidate will grow a distinguished educational portfolio by contributing to UCLH's anaesthesia broad digital and face-to-face programmes. Opportunities include:
- Designing and sustaining a high-quality teaching programme for Stage 1 and Stage 2 residents.- Taking a leadership role to streamline, promote and coordinate departmental teaching across sites.- Leading an FRCA revision programme (VIVA practice, OSCEs) to support exam preparation and examiner-style feedback.- Delivering and developing local simulation and practical skills courses.- Enhancing and updating the UCL/UCLH MOOC series to extend reach and impact.
About us
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological,gastrointestinaland oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclearmedicineandpathology.
Weare committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more informationregardingthe main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Please note, due toanticipatedhigh volumes of applications, this vacancy may close earlier than the listed closing date. You areadvised not to delaysubmittingyour completed application
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
*UCLH top trust to work at in England- In the most recentNHS staff surveyUCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the third year in a row.
UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff To find out more, visit:Flexible working.
To discover more about what makes UCLHa great placeto work, visit:Why Choose UCLH?
Job description
Job responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more informationregardingthe main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Please note, due toanticipatedhigh volumes of applications, this vacancy may close earlier than the listed closing date. You areadvised not to delaysubmittingyour completed application
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
*UCLH top trust to work at in England- In the most recentNHS staff surveyUCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the third year in a row.
UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff To find out more, visit:Flexible working.
To discover more about what makes UCLHa great placeto work, visit:Why Choose UCLH?
Person Specification
Knowledge and Qualifications
Essential
- Eligible for full registration with the GMC at time of appointment and hold a current licence to practise
- MBBS or equivalent
- Primary FRCA
Desirable
- Final FRCA or equivalent
- MRCP
- Completion of a Higher Degree
- Completed educator training
Experience
Essential
- Ability to practice anaesthesia in general specialties; experience of high risk anaesthesia
- Demonstrable involvement in clinical governance, audit and/or QI.
- An understanding of the principles of research
- Active participation as a trainer in education programmes
Desirable
- Lead for audit and quality improvement projects with demonstrable and publishable effects
- Management experience e.g. rota management
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Familiarity with routine and complex airway management
- Experience of a anaesthetising for a wide variety of surgery in patients with multiple co morbidities
Communication
Essential
- Ability to communicate clearly in written and spoken English
- Ability to work in a team, to build rapport, listen, persuade and negotiate.
Personal and People Development
Essential
- Ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority.
- Ability to see patients as people.
- Ability to work cooperatively with others.
Responsibilities towards promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion
Essential
- Demonstrate understanding of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and/or Knowledge of the NHS obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and the Public Sector Equality Duties (line managers to elaborate depending on the level of the post and to assess this essential criteria at interview)
Ensure the risk of infection to self, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors is minimised by:
Essential
- Being familiar with, and adhering to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control. Completing all required training and education (both via e-learning and face to face) on infection prevention and control. Including infection prevention and control as an integral part of your continuous personal/professional development and included in your annual appraisal Taking personal responsibility so far as is reasonably practicable, in helping ensure that effective prevention and control of health care associated infections is embedded into everyday practice and applied consistently.
Specific Requirements
Essential
- Willingness to participate in on-call rotas, as required.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Qualifications
Essential
- Eligible for full registration with the GMC at time of appointment and hold a current licence to practise
- MBBS or equivalent
- Primary FRCA
Desirable
- Final FRCA or equivalent
- MRCP
- Completion of a Higher Degree
- Completed educator training
Experience
Essential
- Ability to practice anaesthesia in general specialties; experience of high risk anaesthesia
- Demonstrable involvement in clinical governance, audit and/or QI.
- An understanding of the principles of research
- Active participation as a trainer in education programmes
Desirable
- Lead for audit and quality improvement projects with demonstrable and publishable effects
- Management experience e.g. rota management
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Familiarity with routine and complex airway management
- Experience of a anaesthetising for a wide variety of surgery in patients with multiple co morbidities
Communication
Essential
- Ability to communicate clearly in written and spoken English
- Ability to work in a team, to build rapport, listen, persuade and negotiate.
Personal and People Development
Essential
- Ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and exert appropriate authority.
- Ability to see patients as people.
- Ability to work cooperatively with others.
Responsibilities towards promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion
Essential
- Demonstrate understanding of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and/or Knowledge of the NHS obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and the Public Sector Equality Duties (line managers to elaborate depending on the level of the post and to assess this essential criteria at interview)
Ensure the risk of infection to self, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors is minimised by:
Essential
- Being familiar with, and adhering to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control. Completing all required training and education (both via e-learning and face to face) on infection prevention and control. Including infection prevention and control as an integral part of your continuous personal/professional development and included in your annual appraisal Taking personal responsibility so far as is reasonably practicable, in helping ensure that effective prevention and control of health care associated infections is embedded into everyday practice and applied consistently.
Specific Requirements
Essential
- Willingness to participate in on-call rotas, as required.
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
Employer details
Employer name
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
University College London Hospitals
235 Euston Road
London
NW1 2BU
Employer's website
https://www.uclh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
