Job summary
The Medical Education Department is responsible for ensuring the delivery and quality management of education and training for approximately 1800 Resident Doctors (doctors in training and locally employed doctors) placed across all specialities within the Trust.
Posts available:
2 x August 2025 to August 2026
1 x February 2026 to February 2027
Please specify in your application which post you are applying for.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as part of a team of 3 Postgraduate Clinical Teaching Fellows (Medical or Surgical), involved in the development and delivery of interactive teaching session for core curriculum teaching programmes for all Resident Doctors.
The post holder will support the development of a teaching VLE (virtual learning environment) and ensure all Medical Education online learning packages, including Medical Induction are up to date and evidence based. They will also be required to support the Postgraduate Medical Education teaching leads in the development of new teaching innovations.
The post holder will offer extra curriculum support via drop in clinics as well as pastoral support to the Resident Doctor workforce.
This post will offer excellent organisational and direct teaching experience at the Postgraduate level along with the opportunity to work towards a qualification in Medical Education.
This position, would be an ideal career opportunity for a doctor who has completed Core Training and is awaiting entry into a specialist training programme.
This position will work 80% of the role within Postgraduate Medical Education, and 20% of the role working within a Speciality (Clinical Environment / Department) to maintain your clinical competencies.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Postgraduate Medical Education currently has 3 Postgraduate Clinical Teaching Fellow positions available.
Positions are offered on a 12month fixed term contract, full time (40hrs per week), working 08:30am until 17:00pm (with a 30min break) -- Monday to Friday.
1 x August 2025 to August 2026 based at Queen Elizabeth site
1 x August 2025 to August 2026 based at Heartlands site
1 x February 2026 to February 2027 based at Heartlands site.
Successful postholder for each position will however be required to travel to any of the University Hospital Birmingham sites, to ensure the needs of the service are met.
Should you wish to discuss this vacancy any further, please do not hesitate to contact:
Debbie Lewis, Senior Postgraduate Manager, email: Debbie.Lewis@uhb.nhs.uk telephone: 0121 424 7827 Mobile: 07870 953528
Job description
Job responsibilities
Postgraduate Medical Education currently has 3 Postgraduate Clinical Teaching Fellow positions available.
Positions are offered on a 12month fixed term contract, full time (40hrs per week), working 08:30am until 17:00pm (with a 30min break) -- Monday to Friday.
1 x August 2025 to August 2026 based at Queen Elizabeth site
1 x August 2025 to August 2026 based at Heartlands site
1 x February 2026 to February 2027 based at Heartlands site.
Successful postholder for each position will however be required to travel to any of the University Hospital Birmingham sites, to ensure the needs of the service are met.
Should you wish to discuss this vacancy any further, please do not hesitate to contact:
Debbie Lewis, Senior Postgraduate Manager, email: Debbie.Lewis@uhb.nhs.uk telephone: 0121 424 7827 Mobile: 07870 953528
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Medical Degree from a recognised university
- GMC registration
- Evidence of achievement of foundation competencies in line with GMC standards / Good Medical Practice
- Eligibility to live and work in the UK
- Postgraduate Educational Qualification or willingness to work towards
- Experience of undergraduate and postgraduate educational delivery
- Experience of teaching in a multi-professional setting
Experience
Essential
- Sound understanding of the role of non-technical skills and human factors in improving patient care and the clinical practice.
- Knowledge around Audit & monitoring standards
- Evidence of supporting and training others in the clinical environment
- Participating in and implementing change
- Delivery of formal and informal teaching sessions
- Understanding of the regulation of healthcare and education
- Ability to populate and use excel and other IT systems
- Clear understanding of learning methodologies and implementations
- Experience of working within the UK Health Care System
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Effective leadership and team working skills.
- Capacity to work effectively under pressure and remain objective in highly emotive or pressurised situations. Awareness of own limitations and when to ask for help.
- Demonstrates effective judgement and decision-making skills.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills and proven ability to communicate in a complex environment.
- Ability to prioritise and manage time effectively.
- Information Technology skills. Competence with basic office package and understanding of the modality of simulation and technology enhanced education.
- Proven ability to develop and implement new initiatives. (educational programmes or service developments)
- Ability to demonstrate a basic understanding of clinical education issues facing the organisation.
- Ability to think creatively and identify emergent clinical solutions.
- Ability to demonstrate an in-depth understanding and knowledge of current clinical practice.
- Clinically credible within a specialised area and demonstrates an ability to work with a multitude of front-line staff, working within your scope of practice
- High level of work organisation, self-motivation, and drive for improvement.
- Personal resilience in dealing with frequent distractions, interruptions, and challenging situations.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality at all times.
- Ability to build effective working relationships across a range of health care providers, staff and other organisations.
- Ability to work semi autonomously and work is supervised rather than managed.
- Able to represent the trust professionally at local / national events.
- Able to write / produce accurate, clear written and verbal reports and presentations.
- Able to present effectively at internal / external and corporate meetings.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Medical Degree from a recognised university
- GMC registration
- Evidence of achievement of foundation competencies in line with GMC standards / Good Medical Practice
- Eligibility to live and work in the UK
- Postgraduate Educational Qualification or willingness to work towards
- Experience of undergraduate and postgraduate educational delivery
- Experience of teaching in a multi-professional setting
Experience
Essential
- Sound understanding of the role of non-technical skills and human factors in improving patient care and the clinical practice.
- Knowledge around Audit & monitoring standards
- Evidence of supporting and training others in the clinical environment
- Participating in and implementing change
- Delivery of formal and informal teaching sessions
- Understanding of the regulation of healthcare and education
- Ability to populate and use excel and other IT systems
- Clear understanding of learning methodologies and implementations
- Experience of working within the UK Health Care System
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Effective leadership and team working skills.
- Capacity to work effectively under pressure and remain objective in highly emotive or pressurised situations. Awareness of own limitations and when to ask for help.
- Demonstrates effective judgement and decision-making skills.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills and proven ability to communicate in a complex environment.
- Ability to prioritise and manage time effectively.
- Information Technology skills. Competence with basic office package and understanding of the modality of simulation and technology enhanced education.
- Proven ability to develop and implement new initiatives. (educational programmes or service developments)
- Ability to demonstrate a basic understanding of clinical education issues facing the organisation.
- Ability to think creatively and identify emergent clinical solutions.
- Ability to demonstrate an in-depth understanding and knowledge of current clinical practice.
- Clinically credible within a specialised area and demonstrates an ability to work with a multitude of front-line staff, working within your scope of practice
- High level of work organisation, self-motivation, and drive for improvement.
- Personal resilience in dealing with frequent distractions, interruptions, and challenging situations.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality at all times.
- Ability to build effective working relationships across a range of health care providers, staff and other organisations.
- Ability to work semi autonomously and work is supervised rather than managed.
- Able to represent the trust professionally at local / national events.
- Able to write / produce accurate, clear written and verbal reports and presentations.
- Able to present effectively at internal / external and corporate meetings.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
