Clinical Teaching Fellow

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £49,909 to £61,825

Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to August 2027 

Role Summary

The main focus of this role is to provide supporting clinical input to the undergraduate medical programme.

The Clinical Teaching Fellows will be required to work with academic and clinical staff to:

• Support subject leads in ensuring content is appropriate
• Facilitate small group teaching to augment a reduced clinical placement programme
• Contribute to low stakes assessment and formative feedback
• Contribute to summative assessments

The postholders will be expected to undertake a Postgraduate Certification in Education for Health Professionals run at the University, if not previously obtained.

Main Duties

Under guidance from the academic supervisors who have the ultimate responsibility for the design, delivery and assessment of the module or teaching programme:

• Contribute to the design of modules with other colleagues including the development of on-line and face to face learning materials.
• Teach courses across the undergraduate medical curriculum, predominantly through lectures and small group teaching, so that the programme’s teaching objectives are met.
• Plan and prepare own teaching, including guidance notes and handouts in accordance with the established objectives of the teaching programme.
• Undertake full range of responsibilities in relation to supervision, marking and examining. (Summative assessment, including assessed work contributing to the final award – as a mark or as a credit – such as unseen examinations, essays, dissertations or presentations, is subject to validation by the academic supervisor).
• Contribute, under supervision, to assessments including writing examination questions, organising pilots of new questions, taking part in standard setting.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of faculty development training sessions for clinical and non-clinical staff contributing to the MB ChB programme.

Person Specification

Essential 

• Primary Medical Qualification (MBChB, MBBS or equivalent). 
• Evidence of achievement of Foundation competencies in line with GMC standards/Good Medical Practice (or equivalent).
• Ability to teach in an undergraduate medicine context. 
• A knowledge of the GMC Outcomes for Doctors and the principles of the Medical Licensing Assessment. 
• Good organisational skills including the capacity to manage time and prioritise workload, balance important and urgent demands, as well as follow instructions. 
• Excellent communication skills. 
• Ability to establish good relations with colleagues. 
• Ability to use IT for teaching. 
• Willingness to learn and contribute to broader management/administration processes. 
• Willingness to undertake Postgraduate Qualification in Education, if not already held. 
• Knowledge of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010, and how to actively ensure in day-to-day activity in own area, that those with protected characteristics are treated equally and fairly. 

Desirable 

• Postgraduate medical qualification (MRCP, MRCS or similar). 
• Experience of creating learning materials for use by medical students.
• Experience of running and developing scenarios for use in simulation.
• Evidence of recent audit and research projects completed satisfactorily in the last 2 years.
• Knowledge of web-based learning design.

Informal enquiries can be made to Gill Newis, email: g.m.newis@bham.ac.uk 

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