Clinical Teaching Fellow

Clinical Teaching Fellow in Medical Education Leeds Institute of Health Sciences

0.4 FTE

This role will be based on the university campus, with the preferred days of work being Monday and Thursday

Are you passionate about the future of the NHS workforce? Would you like to join our team of GP educators teaching the next generation of doctors?

We are looking for someone who has experience in education at an undergraduate or postgraduate level to bring experience to this post.

As a Clinical Teaching Fellow in Medical Education, you will carry out a key teaching role in the field of General Practice undergraduate education within the School, drawing on your clinical and teaching experience to underpin and carry out first class teaching within primary care education.

As a Clinical Teaching Fellow in Medical Education, the focus of the role will be the development and delivery of high-quality teaching and contribution to the MBChB curriculum. With advances in the methods and locations of education delivery you will work with our teams developing new ways of approaching education. We have projects ranging from exploring new types of clinical placement experience to new ways of delivering place-based learning.

You will be a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners or equivalent and be clinically active in general practice (a minimum of two programmed activity sessions per week pro rata) and be on the NHS performers list.

Being clinically active, you will contribute to the delivery of up to date, excellent educational programmes; responsive to the needs of the current and future NHS workforce. You will have the chance to benefit from the research culture and activities within the school to help deliver research-informed teaching. Administration duties will also be expected.

• 26 days holiday plus approx.
  16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s 42 days a year!
• Generous pension scheme plus life assurance– the University contributes 14.5% of salary
• Health and Wellbeing:
  Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
• Personal Development:
  Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team, and self-development courses including languages, Creative Writing,Wellbeing Therapies and much more.
• Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts, and travel schemes are also available.

As part of this role, you will be expected to spend at least two programmed activity sessions per week undertaking clinical work as a general practitioner within the region. You will be expected to organise these sessions, which will be funded as a salaried GP or GP partner, externally to your university contract.

Louise Gazeley, Head of Student Education in Primary Care