Associate Clinical Professor

Job Description

Position Details

Birmingham Medical School, School of Medical Sciences, College of Medicine and Health

Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally £109,725, with potential progression once in post to £145,478

Clinical

Part Time (12 hours per week, the post holder should be available on Fridays)

Permanent

Closing date: 4th December 2025

Role Summary

Community Based Medicine (CBM) is a strand in the MBChB programme during which students learn about medicine from a Primary Care perspective and develop consultation and clinical reasoning skills. The majority of CBM teaching occurs on placement in General Practices across the West Midlands and beyond. Please see the following for background information:Teaching Opportunities - Community Based Medicine - University of Birmingham. However, due to pressure on placement capacity some teaching is delivered in the University, which complements the placement activities.

The post holder is responsible for ensuring all elements of the content, structure, delivery and assessment of CBM meet University and General Medical Council standards. Whilst primarily having responsibility for a specific year of teaching delivery (co-lead for the final year programme initially), the post holder will also make a substantial contribution to the strategic development of the CBM component across all years in the context of vertical and horizontal integration within the MBChB programme.

It is a high level, strategic post and requires the post holder to work with relevant professional services staff as well as other academics to produce, develop and integrate CBM teaching materials and assessments. This will include developing and delivering curriculum training to new and experienced tutors on the CBM programme.

The post holder must be able to deliver face to face, large, and small group teaching sessions on a regular basis throughout the academic year for clinical year students (teaching for year five begins in July).

The post holder is responsible to the Academic Lead for Community Based Medicine and will work with other CBM team members including the Educational Development Specialist and the CBM Academy team. The post holder will initially share joint responsibility for delivery of the year five course delivery with a co-lead.

Main Duties

Education

You will contribute across the range of teaching and learning activities:

• making a significant contribution to the pedagogical knowledge base of the subject that advances teaching through the enhancement of practice, the development of teaching resources and/or through practice-based research;
• leading on the management and the development of approaches to teaching and learning, including designing innovative approaches and supporting colleagues to use them in the subject area or institution;
• leading on curriculum design at module and programme level to ensure it is contemporary, inclusive, engaging and academically challenging;
• actively engaging students in curriculum design;
• making an impactful, high-quality contribution to debates about education policy, methods and practices through internal and external publications, subject societies and conference activity;
• developing an external profile evidenced through engaging in external quality assurance activities related to teaching, e.g. external examining and engaging with/supporting education in other institutions;
• leading the development of teaching, learning and assessment policies and strategies;
• acting as an education mentor to colleagues in the School/Department/College or more widely;
• leading the development of new and appropriate approaches to learning and teaching;
• leading sustained high value impact in knowledge transfer and enterprise (including business engagement, public engagement) that enhances the student experience and/or or employability, and is of manifest benefit to learning and teaching in the College and the University;
• undertaking own teaching, which will include teaching and examining courses at a range of levels, planning and reviewing own teaching approaches, developing programme proposals, supervision, marking and examining. You will ensure that your teaching practice is informed by discipline-based research, through participating in the research culture of the School;
• take part in NHS Faculty development - in particular, working with the Academy of Community Based Medicine team to deliver annual GP tutor training to provide continuing professional development for the GP tutors and help ensure the quality of teaching and assessment.

Management/administration

Lead activities in the Department/ School and represent the School on College/ University committees or working groups. Where appropriate to the discipline this is likely to include some, but not all the responsibilities listed below.

• make an important contribution to the development and running of the Department or School; in this role, for example, the post holder will work with the MBChB Assessment group; module/component co-ordinators, academic staff and MBChB professional services staff to ensure that CBM assessments meet best practice guidelines including University guidance and grounded in educational theory. Make important contributions to the development of the School's research strategy and/or learning and teaching strategy;
• to ensure that the teaching materials on the University's online teaching platform (Canvas) are updated annually, such that clinical teaching staff and students have access to a full description of the component when teaching begins;
• contribute significantly to the development and delivery of knowledge transfer, enterprise, business engagement and public engagement activities with sustained high value impact of manifest benefit to the College and the University;
• making an important contribution to the development and running of the Department or School, for example, leading activity on teaching assessment;
• developing and managing staff and resources in support of major teaching activities;
• making important contributions to the development of the Department's (and the University) learning and teaching strategy;
• develops and implements a culture (including policies and procedures) that promotes Equality and values diversity and inclusion;
• leading, serving on and assisting the work of committees and task and finish groups beyond School/Department, e.g., Senate, Council, University Education or Research Committee etc.;
• leading/project managing a team to devise and implement a new and/or revised process (e.g. new programme or a recruitment drive);
• making a sustained contribution to widening participation, schools outreach and/or public understanding of the discipline;
• contributing to administrative activities within the University (e.g. appeals panels, working groups).
• Contribute to the administration/management of research and/or teaching across the School;
• Lead/project manage a team to devise and implement a new and/or revised process (e.g. new programme or a recruitment drive);
• Advise on personal development of staff and students;
• To liaise with student services and GP tutors to provide pastoral care for students within the College's welfare structure.

Citizenship

• identifying wellbeing issues within the School/College/University and developing appropriate solutions to address these;
• taking collective ownership of challenges faced by the School or College and working with colleagues to develop solutions;
• mentoring and coaching of colleagues, particularly those in the early stages of their career.

Person Specification

• Demonstrated excellence in learning and teaching, management and administration.
• This is a clinical academic post and as such the post holder should be a practising GP (MBChB, MRCGP) and be fully registered with a licence to practise with the GMC and participate in clinical appraisal and revalidation. It would be desirable for the post holder to have postgraduate qualification in Education e.g. PGCert or higher qualification.
• Excellent IT skills are required.
• For this role, the post holder should be available on Fridays to deliver the Year 5 clinical teaching days.

Learning and teaching requirements

An excellent teaching profile and performance in terms of both impact and quality. Teaching quality demonstrated to be informed by an appropriate level of scholarship.

Evidence of success under the following headings.

• Successful and sustained use of a range of appropriate teaching methods, and assessment strategies that promote high quality learning, including learning that is flexible, distinctive, and current and stimulates learners' natural curiosity - at an undergraduate or postgraduate level.
• Significant and sustained contribution to one or more of the following: strategic development of new programmes, approaches to learning, the development of learning resources or assessments.
• High quality and sustained contributions to fostering excellence in teaching activities more widely, i.e. in the Department/School or College and/or externally.
• Mentoring and expert advice which develops the skills of colleagues in teaching and in fostering learning.
• Sustained high value impact knowledge transfer and enterprise that is of manifest benefit to the College and University.

Management and administration-related requirements

Demonstrated significant achievement in management and administration-related activities, which may include leadership of activities/initiatives. Evidence of success under the following headings.

• Successful and sustained performance in significant administrative/managerial role.
• Ability to communicate effectively to a range of audiences and individuals (including students, GPs, and a range of academic and professional services staff).
• Ability to prioritise tasks, adhere to deadlines and manage time and workload effectively.
• Ability to work collaboratively and adapt as needed to make a meaningful, long-term contribution to the School/College/University.
• Proactive in supporting the wider academic community through participation in committees, shared teaching initiatives, and administrative activities.
• An understanding of, and commitment to, an academic career.
• Demonstrates a strong commitment to promoting equality and diversity to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Skilled in analysing data to identify equality and diversity issues and experienced in designing and implementing targeted interventions to address them.

Further particulars can be found here

Informal enquiries to Louise Hammersley, email:

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