Clinical Teaching Fellow in Medicine

Job overview

This innovative full-time teaching posts provides an opportunity to develop teaching skills and undertake clinical research or career development.  This Trust is the most advanced in the development of Clinical Teaching Fellows who  play a key role in the design, development, delivery and assessment of undergraduate teaching. The flexible timetable can be tailored to provide training in medicine or related specialities, according to the needs of the successful applicant.

Applicants are likely to have completed a period of training at FY2 level or higher with a view to applying for Specialist Registrar /Training  posts in the future.  This is a flexible post which offers excellent career progress opportunities to  those wishing to develop their curriculum vitae for UK Specialty posts.

The successful applicants will be invited to undertake a Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare and Biomedical Education (based on seat availability ) and will be eligible for an Honorary Lectureship at St. George’s University of London.  The post/s will be based either at St Helier Hospital or Epsom Hospital  though the candidate is expected to work across all sites including St Georges  when required and you would have links with 8 other  Fellows.

We may close the advert before the closing date if there are sufficient applicants. Please note if you have not heard for more than 4 weeks after the closing date then you have not been successful on this occasion.

Main duties of the job

This innovative full-time teaching post provides an opportunity to develop teaching skills and continue to develop your career in general medicine or any sub-specialty medicine.Approximately 50 % of the timetable will be allocated to teaching and 50 % to clinical training. The flexible timetable can be tailored to provide training in specific medical specialties medicine according to the career needs of the successful applicant. There are no on call commitments.

The post/s will be based either at St Helier Hospital or Epsom Hospital  though the candidate is expected to work across all sites including St Georges  when required and you would have links with 8 other  Fellows.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful applicant will plan and deliver teaching in a variety of formats including:  Tutorials  Clinical skills/bedside teaching  Clinical Problem Based Learning (CPBL) tutorials  Student Grand Rounds  Communication skills teaching  Assisting/complementing consultant teaching  Simulation if required They will also be required to do Work Based Assessments and participate in OSCE examinations. He/she will organise and co-ordinate the teaching programme in Medicine for St George’s University of London medical students/other partner universities/International students and that will include T Year, P Year, Final Year and also Physician Associate students. Some cross cover for other Clinical Teaching Fellows will also be expected. The format of teaching will be tailored to suit individual year group and also cater to the learning requirements and objectives as set out by the Medical Schools.He/she will be expected not to take annual leave at times of the year when there are important teaching duties like student inductions. They also need to ensure that appropriate room bookings are done and be available in the teaching centre to facilitate teaching sessions booked within their area of responsibility for consultants/ other faculty during times when the undergraduate room booking manager is on leave.  The successful applicant will be invited to undertake a Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare Education (based on seat availability) and will be eligible for an Honorary Lectureship at St. George’s University of London. Although the post is  either based at St Helier or Epsom Hospital, the post holder will be expected to teach at all sites within the Trust and also occasionally at St George’s Hospital.This role may also require to plan, organise and facilitate OSCES both as part of the students final assessment for their core rotations at Epsom and also for the Trust’s involvement with OSCE Workshops. There may also be the requirment to provide some teaching to support the FY1 teaching programme or for occasional weekend or evening teaching in conjunction with promotional events held but notice will be given several months in advance. Other activities There are ample opportunities and support for Clinical Audit, research projects, presentation of cases and papers, and for writing case reports and papers for publication in peer-reviewed journals.