Clinical Teaching Fellow in General Surgery

Clinical Teaching Fellow in General Surgery

The closing date is 16 January 2026

The posts not only involve teaching opportunities but the chance to build your CV when applying for a training number or for any other future post. It offers the chance to undertake a higher degree via the Masters in Medical Education programme, present at local, regional, national conferences and research innovative ideas in medical education. The Department fully supports all Clinical Teaching Fellows in developing the course and UMED also has its own annual Undergraduate Medical Education Conference, where best and innovative practice can be shared.

You will be based across QMC and City Campus and will have office space, desk and PC.

• Please only apply if able to start as soon as possible. Please be aware this post is NOT for an August 2026 start date, they will be advertised in Spring 2026. You must not apply if looking for an August 2026 start date.

To work alongside the Clinical Teaching Fellows, The Surgery Education Lead (currently Mr Hari Ratan) and the Undergraduate Education Manager (currently Nick Kythreotis) to both deliver teaching to medical students at NUH and also to develop new initiatives when teaching students.

• To deliver ward based general surgery teaching on the new Surgery curriculum, across both the City and QMC Campus.
• To provide reasonable cover where appropriate for the other Clinical Teaching Fellows (and vice-versa).
• Contribute to the clinical assessment of students during the formal competency assessments.
• Contribute to induction of surgery students.
• To provide teaching on the Early Clinical Experience Course (14 x Year 1/2 hospital visits).
• Contribute to the formal examination of these students including OSCE examinations and exam question writing. Take part in one-to-one tutoring of students re-sitting their exams and provide one-to-one teaching support for struggling students.
• Contribute in a strategic sense to the evolution of teaching for all the above groups.
• Support teaching across the clinical course as required.
• Work with the Undergraduate Manager and other Teaching Fellows to develop innovative teaching methods across the clinical course.
• Undertake appropriate projects to support your own learning and improve the experience of the Department. This includes integration to the wards and the Student Forum Quality Projects.

Every day, our teams at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) make a difference. We save lives, we improve lives and we usher in new life. We are proud to play a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of people in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and our surrounding communities.

With more than 18,000 colleagues, we are the largest employer in Nottinghamshire and one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country, serving more than 2.5m residents of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and a further four million people across the East Midlands and beyond.

We provide a range of national and internationally renowned specialist services and we are at the forefront of new surgical procedures and research programmes. We are home to the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre, the Nottingham Children's Hospital and in partnership with the University of Nottingham we host a Biomedical Research Centre carrying out vital research into hearing, digestive diseases, respiratory, musculoskeletal disease, mental health and imaging.

As a teaching hospital, we are instrumental in the education and training of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals. We are proud of our strong relationships with universities across the East Midlands, including the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University and Loughborough University.

• Full registration with the GMC
• MBBS
• MRCS (Gen.
  
  Surg) or equivalent

• A minimum of two years' experience in a training post at FY1 and FY2 level of working in the NHS - please note this does not include clinical attachments

• Interest in Undergraduate surgical teaching
• Evidence of participation in Clinical Audit.
• Familiarity with teaching in a hospital set up

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts