Clinical Teaching Fellow

This post is FY3 salary £44,041 per annum
This post is suitable for trainees who have already obtained Foundation Training or equivalent and have 2 years post-graduate experience. It would be particularly suitable for trainees who wish to take time out of their programme to gain experience in medical education. The successful applicant will also have the opportunity to be partially funded by the Trust to undertake either a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education or Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Leadership.
We are seeking enthusiastic, self -motivated clinicians who thrive in a team environment and who inspire to deliver the highest quality medical education experience to undergraduate student doctors from Cambridge University and University of East Anglia. This would be in the form of lectures, small group seminar work, structured bedside teaching, formative and mock OSCEs and provide pastoral support, academic guidance in liaison with clinical supervisors.
The successful applicants will be expected to continue to develop the teaching programme in line with the curricula and work closely with the Undergraduate Medical Education Team to audit, develop and improve undergraduate medical education and teaching offered by the Trust.
The post holders may have dedicated time to work in the East Anglian Simulation Training Centre or ICENI Centre to support high fidelity simulation training to the student doctors and be trained as Simulation Faculty, developing clinical expertise in simulation, human factors and medical education.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisation in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
Offer our medical students high quality clinical skills and simulation sessions.
The post holder will be involved in the clinical teaching of medical students across all the modules/years for which the Trust takes students on placements. This would be in the form of lectures, small group seminar work and structured bedside teaching.
This post will offer excellent organisational and direct teaching experience at the undergraduate level along with the opportunity to work towards a qualification in Medical Education.
It is expected that the post holder will undertake some training in medical education and perform some research/audit into medical education within the Trust, and this will be supported through leave and course fees by the Trust.
To become familiar with the teaching objectives of all the programmes being delivered by the Trust and work with the students to help them achieve these objectives.
To be familiar with the electronic curriculum and University web-based learning platform and be available to facilitate students’ self-directed learning.
Teaching medical students at the bedside is an integral part of the job however opportunities to utilize the clinical simulation suite to deliver teaching in a dynamic way will also be made available
To work closely with the Undergraduate Medical Education Team to audit, develop and improve the teaching offered by the Trust. This may be through an audit or piece of research into the teaching activities. It is expected that the post holder will develop a project to be presented at the end of the year to the Clinical Sub Dean and UGME Faculty.
To work closely with the undergraduate administration team to ensure co-ordination of all teaching programmes runs smoothly.
If offered a Colchester site role, your clinical placement speciality will be one of O&G or a surgical area.