MYDoc Senior Clinical Fellow - Medical Education and Simulation

Job responsibilities

Senior Clinical Fellow - Medical Education and Simulation

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust (MYTT) is seeking highly motivated, clinically able applicants; with previous experience of teaching medical undergraduates in a clinical fellow role; to develop their educational and leadership experience working within our highly innovative and exciting medical education team.

These posts have been specifically designed for doctors who have had previous experience working as a clinical fellow in education, teaching medical undergraduates. This role will enable successful appointees to further develop their interest in medical education, as well as develop their organisational and leadership skills.

Alongside teaching commitments, for undergraduate medical students and foundation doctors; senior clinical fellows will be allocated time within their working hours to undertake organisational, leadership, academic and digital innovation activities, identified and agreed with your supervisor.

Senior clinical fellows are expected to provide supervision, support and guidance to the clinical fellow team; providing leadership and managerial expertise in education delivery, and maintain high teaching standards. The responsibilities of this role also include: the organisation of educational activity throughout the year; production of academic content, such as posters and publications, to showcase the MYTT medical education team; and the development of innovative work, including the creation and promotion of digital resources.

These are 12-month posts, beginning in August 2025, averaging 3 days per week over the year (0.6 WTE). However, most days are worked during medical student term times, with more time off over the Christmas, Easter and Summer periods.

Successful applicants will work cross-site at Pinderfields Hospital and Dewsbury District Hospital, based within the education centres.

We envisage appointees will organise regular additional clinical locum work, within MYTT, in specialties of their choice, to maintain clinical competencies, provide evidence for revalidation, and gain clinical experience in individuals areas of interest. Locum work needs to be organised around the educational commitments of this post, and remain EWTD compliant, and will be remunerated at published internal locum rates.

This post is not a recognised UK training post. However, the post-holder will have an enthusiastic educational supervisor, and be supported in undertaking a wide range of CV-enhancing activities, as part of their role as a member of the medical education team.

EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES IN MID YORKSHIRE

Work in the medical education department will be as part of an enthusiastic, dynamic and growing team of clinicians, clinical teachers and supporting staff, with a wide breadth of experience.

MYTT is well recognised within the region as a centre for educational excellence. We have strong links with Leeds Medical School, and receive excellent feedback regarding our undergraduate teaching, with MYTT one of the most popular student placements in the Yorkshire region. We have been awarded a great number of Clinical Teaching Excellence Awards, from Leeds Medical School, in recognition of this.

Clinical fellows receive simulation training, regular appraisals and support during their time in post. There are also opportunities to attend educational or professional courses. We will support clinical fellows who have significantly contributed to undergraduate educational projects to apply for Junior Doctor Developmental Clinical Teaching Excellence Awards from Leeds Medical School.

Clinical fellows will have teaching commitments on all their educational days; receiving close mentoring and support to develop as teachers, and will have opportunities to add to and improve existing educational programmes.

At Pinderfields, we have excellent simulation facilities, with clinical skills and simulation rooms, high-fidelity 3G SimMan manikins, medium-fidelity ALS/ SimPad manikins, and an extensive range of part-body simulators. We are currently developing a simulation suite, in the Oakwell Centre, at Dewsbury and District Hospital. Clinical fellows facilitate simulation courses for medical students from Y2-Y5, and for foundation doctors.

The wide and expanding range of clinical fellow educational activities includes:

- IMPRES5: Our innovative, progressive 8 week teaching programme for Y5 medical students, including case based learning, diagnostic teaching and simulation.

- Y4 Specialty Teaching: Clinical teaching and simulation sessions for Y4 medical students on their specialty placements: Acute & Critical Care, Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Sexual Health, and Paediatrics.

- Y3 Teaching: Tutorial, simulation, and bedside teaching; in a range of specialties.

- Y2 Teaching: Skills, simulation, and bedside teaching.

- Practice OSCEs

- Post-Finals Assistantship Programmes

- Cardiac Arrest Simulation

- Virtual learning programmes

- Digital content for MYTT MESH Platform

- Pastoral support & mentorship

- Providing student feedback

- Multi-disciplinary team working

- Supporting clinical areas within area of professional interest and clinical locum work

- STR1DE: Our FY1 teaching programme, including core curriculum teaching cases, simulation, prescribing, leadership, and development of teaching skills

- STR2DE: Our FY2 teaching programme combining clinical knowledge and educational content with post FY2 career planning

Additional activities for senior clinical fellows include:

- Management, delivery and quality assurance of all clinical fellow teaching providing observation of teaching and feedback for junior clinical fellows

- Organisation and management of teaching, including rota management

- Co-ordination and delivery of the induction for new clinical fellows

- Scheduling, chairing and recording of educational team meetings and action plans

- Monitoring feedback from teachingand implementing change in accordance with this

- Communicating and working effectively with others, including those within the medical education team, the wider trust and the university

- Creating and updating resources for MYTT medical education

- Producing innovative academic work, such as posters and publications, to showcase the work of the MYTT medical education department

- Supporting medical education faculty to develop educational projects and academic work

- Promoting the profile of MYTT through representation at educational events

- Work on digital innovation to create, review and update resources for MYTT medical education

- Regularly updating the education team on progress and developments of academic work

Terms & Conditions and Tenure

The post is offered for a 12-month fixed term, on the basis of the current Trust local TCS, which are based on national TCS and pay scales for this grade. These will be provided upon request. The current salary is £49,909 pro rata

Appraisal & Revalidation

All our doctors will engage positively with appraisal and revalidation as required. They will have a prescribed connection with Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust via GMC Connect and their Responsible Officer is the MYTT Medical Director.

Continuing Professional Development

The Trust requires all its doctors to engage with continuing professional development, guided by the relevant professional associations or Royal Colleges. Time and funding is provided according to departmental and Trust policies, subject to approval through the clinical management structures. There is a programme of mandatory training which all relevant staff must complete as required.

Research

Medical staff are encouraged to develop areas of personal and/or research interest. This can be developed in liaison with the Trusts R&D department and in line with prevailing policies and research frameworks. The Trust is developing an expanding and outward-looking research programme.

Mentoring

Newly appointed medical staff will be offered mentoring opportunities either within the department or within the wider Trust and may be specified by the appointments committee. There is an induction and development programme for all new staff.

Teaching

The Trust is keen to maintain its reputation for high quality training and to attract the highest calibre of trainee and career-grade doctors. All senior doctors are involved in training our doctors, students and other professions. There are many opportunities to develop training and education roles and many have taken on educational leadership roles within and beyond the Trust.

Representation

Our Senior Medical Staff Committee provides a forum to liaise with and advise our senior management team. The BMA-accredited Local Negotiating Committee negotiates on terms-and-conditions matters.

Qualifications

Essential

• Medical Degree from recognised medical school
• Successful FY2 ARCP outcome or equivalent
• Teaching qualification
• IT experience (i.e. Microsoft Office packages)

Desirable

• Medical School Prizes

Management Skills

Essential

• Demonstrates intelligent and analytical approach to problem solving.
• Good time management.
• Good organisational skills.

GMC registration

Essential

• Please state your full GMC number
• Full GMC Registration with licence to practise

Experience

Essential

• Recent (within last 2 years) experience of clinical working in UK NHS hospitals.
• Evidence of an enthusiastic interest in medical education.
• Evidence of extensive teaching experience, within an educational clinical fellow role
• Evidence of development and delivery of own teaching sessions or programmes
• Evidence of clinical skills or simulation teaching
• Feedback and assessment of educational activity

Desirable

• Recent educational conferences or courses attended.
• Evidence of self-directed individual educational project work

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Good communication skills.
• Flexibility.
• Able to demonstrate team working
• Evidence of leadership, creativity and innovation
• Willingness to provide and learn all aspects of hospitals internal systems and processes and adhere to local policies
• Physically able to carry out the duties as specified in the job description and ability to evidence competencies
• Disclosure + Barring Service (DBS) Clearance

Desirable

• Has personal insight into own strengths and weaknesses.
• Ability to contribute to the development of the Trust, the Unit and its services.
• Evidence of multidisciplinary team working
• Specific educational interests and evidence of educational ideas.

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.

UK Registration

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