Clinical Teaching Fellow Medical School Clinical

Position Details

College of Medicine and Health, School of Medical Sciences.

Location:

University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK.

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £45,943 to with potential progression once in post to £77,196.

Clinical post.

Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to July 2028.

Closing date: 1st July 2026.

This role is also open as an internal secondment opportunity, which would need to be agreed by your current line manager.

We are seeking to appoint a cohort of Clinical Teaching Fellows to join the College of Medicine & Health at an exciting time when our MBChB curriculum and programme structure are under review. The new appointees will join a well‑established team of academics and teaching fellows to contribute to the development of the programme, with a particular focus on supporting undergraduate teaching, student support, programme assessment and delivery.

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

Contribute to teaching and assessment across the MBChB Programme. In addition, you will be expected to contribute to academic citizenship, likely to be demonstrated through generous, mutually respectful and supportive working relationships with all staff and students.

Teaching is likely to include developing, piloting and evaluating new sessions and assessments for our exciting Curriculum 2030 project, where you will focus on clinical integration and clinical reasoning in Y1 and Y2. You will support lecture and small group teaching sessions for students across the five years to augment their clinical placements, and you may be asked to deliver teaching normally delivered by senior staff to release them for curriculum development activities.

You will also facilitate Clinical Communication teaching sessions and Interprofessional education sessions. To support your development as an educator we require all CTFs to undertake a PGCert in Education for Health Professionals. Training will be offered as needed.

Involved in assessment checking and question writing, alongside essay marking. You will also be asked to support OSCE examinations and may be asked to be a Senior Invigilator for our examinations. Training is provided for all assessment tasks.

All CTFs act as personal academic tutors for a group of students. We ask you to provide academic support for our widening participation students and to supervise student elective projects. Prior to examinations you will provide revision sessions for students and remediation for students needing to take supplementary assessments.

We encourage CTFs to engage in pedagogic research and to build on the work being done in the medical school with many current and continuing pilot exercises and publish and present if appropriate.

You will be asked to contribute to project working groups to ope rationalise Curriculum 2030. This will be ongoing, and your contributions to design and innovation will be valuable.

• Teach courses at a range of levels within specified subject area and within own area of subject specialism to undergraduates, postgraduates and CPD students, predominantly through allocated lectures and seminars, so that the School’s teaching objectives are met.
• Contribute to the design of modules with other colleagues.
• Plan and prepare own teaching, including guidance notes and handouts in accordance with the established objectives of the teaching programme.
• Devise and supervise projects, student dissertations and practical work.
• Develop an approach to planning and reviewing own teaching.
• Undertake full range of responsibilities in relation to supervision, marking and examining, including summative assessment.
• Frequently update own subject expertise.
• Undertake personal professional development in teaching, including self‑reflection on own teaching, using student and peer review feedback, to enhance own teaching and learning processes.
• Contribute to knowledge transfer on own specialism that is of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a…