# Clinical Teaching Fellow in Palliative Care and Oncology > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-teaching-fellow-in-palliative-care-and-oncology/eae61aa2-5ac6-473c-8ba2-789f6cf60c9e - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-teaching-fellow-in-palliative-care-and-oncology/eae61aa2-5ac6-473c-8ba2-789f6cf60c9e.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Oncology - **Grade:** Junior - **Salary:** £54,499 - £67,325 pro rata per annum - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Project funded Clinical Teaching Fellow role) - **Employment type:** Full time - 40 hours per week (Some early starts/late finishes to support the medical student placement schedule) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-03T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-20T12:03:30.863Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Tooting/St_Georges_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Palliative_Care/Palliative_Care-v8120780 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8120780?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This undergraduate medical education Clinical Teaching Fellow in Palliative Care and Oncology and similar posts in other specialties have been established to enhance the teaching of medical students in the Trust and City St George’s Medical School. The majority of the post holder’s time will be spent on undergraduate teaching activities. The remainder of the week will be used either for clinical work to develop the individual’s career, or to complete a research project. The post holder will teach and co-ordinate students across all the acute services to ensure that students are able to achieve their learning objectives. There will be close liaison with the other Clinical Teaching Fellows through the CTF network to enhance the coordination of undergraduate clinical teaching of medical students. ### Main duties of the job The successful candidate will be based with the palliative care team for 50% and Oncology for 50% of their time and have named educational supervisor from the palliative care team for this part of the post. The successful candidate will play an important role in the development and delivery of clinical teaching to medical students on the St George’s University MBBS programmes. As well as end of life care and symptom management the focus of teaching would also include managing uncertainty, co-morbidities, polypharmacy, advance care planning and communication. The palliative medicine teaching week runs 8 times per year. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering the teaching components which consists of lectures, a patient perspective session run with colleagues at the local hospice and case based work shops. The successful candidate will also deliver palliative care clinical teaching for students on ward based placements to help blend holistic palliative care principles with other parts of their clinical experience mirroring real world practice. The post holder will be expected to liaise with similar post holders through the CTF network and identify deficiencies and opportunities for clinical teaching across the Trust. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The successful candidate will be based with the palliative care team for 50% and Oncology for 50% of their time and have named educational supervisor from the palliative care team for this part of the post. The successful candidate will play an important role in the development and delivery of clinical teaching to medical students on the St George’s University MBBS programmes. As well as end of life care and symptom management the focus of teaching would also include managing uncertainty, co-morbidities, polypharmacy, advance care planning and communication. The palliative medicine teaching week runs 8 times per year. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering the teaching components which consists of lectures, a patient perspective session run with colleagues at the local hospice and case based work shops. The successful candidate will also deliver palliative care clinical teaching for students on ward based placements to help blend holistic palliative care principles with other parts of their clinical experience mirroring real world practice. The post holder will be expected to liaise with similar post holders through the CTF network and identify deficiencies and opportunities for clinical teaching across the Trust. Please read the job description and person specification for full details of this role. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Successful completion of Core Training programme - Broad medical experience with experience in the palliative care setting **Desirable** - Clinical experience beyond core training, research with publications ### Other Skills **Essential** - Excellent written and oral communication skills - Behaves in a professional manner and demonstrates the trust’s values - Good interpersonal skills - Works collaboratively with all team members - Self motivated to develop personal and professional knowledge - Remains calm and approachable within challenging situations - Proactive, self-starter ### Qualifications **Essential** - MBBS and Membership in relevant specialty **Desirable** - Intercalated BSc or equivalent ### Skills and Knowledge - Clinical **Essential** - Basic knowledge of diagnosis and management of common clinical conditions - Management of acutely ill patients **Desirable** - Specialty based knowledge ### Skills and Knowledge - Teaching **Essential** - Teaching medical students - Clinical and organisational teaching experience - Experience of delivery virtual teaching **Desirable** - Lecturing and assessment experience - Knowledge of PBL and CBL - Teaching course - Understanding of managing the virtual teaching environment (e.g.: preventing bullying behaviours between online participants) ## Documents - [ugme clinical teaching fellow-palliative care and oncology (pdf, 304.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10427087) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.