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Clinical Teaching Fellow in Acute Medicine

Job details
Posting date: 23 April 2025
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: per anum
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 23 May 2025
Location: North Shields, NE29 8NH
Company: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 7131536/319-7131536NR

Summary

A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.


To provide supervised training in Acute Medicine at post-Foundation level.

To give training in strategic planning and organisation of undergraduate education, including named responsibility for negotiated specific components

To further develop theoretical understanding of clinical education

To participate in a community of educational practice, including design and delivery of innovative teaching, peer observation, evaluation and research

To provide high-quality clinical teaching within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

To further develop and improve teaching of undergraduate medical students within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

If the successful appointee has over four years post qualification experience, they will be appointed on specialty doctor 2021 terms and conditions.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

To provide the Acute Medicine Teaching Fellow with an opportunity to gain supervised training in the evaluation and management of acute medical presentations, through participation in a limited number of weekday sessions, in addition to participation in evening and weekend & overnight on calls.

To allow the Clinical Teaching Fellow to carry out an educational development or research project, with a view to submitting the work for publication in learned journals.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Detailed Aims Acute Medicine

The post holder will participate in an Acute Medicine rota at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH). This will include shifts within our purpose-built SDEC unit (Medical Ambulatory Care, part of our Trust’s leading provision in same-day emergency care). It will also include supervised ward-rounds in our in-patient settings (Acute Medical Unit & another Acute Medicine ward). It will include some contribution to the NSECH Hospital@Night team.

Detailed Aims - Teaching

The Fellow will assist in the development, co-ordination, and delivery of undergraduate teaching, across all Trust sites, but the post-holder may also be required to teach at other hospitals within the Trust. Wansbeck has recently seen the opening of a new state-of-the-art Simulation and Student Assessment Centre. Using this resource, the post holder will be encouraged to explore and develop new teaching and training opportunities.

The Fellow will participate in developing, delivering, and monitoring the contemporary intensive courses for stage 3 (third year) medical students, as well as traditional clinical teaching of senior medical students at the bedside and in the clinic. To ensure these objectives and to provide the Fellow with further training, the post-holder will be expected to register for the Certificate in Medical Education, institution to be confirmed, with Home Fees funded by the Trust. This comprises two and a half days residential course, with approximately 60 hours of self-directed learning. Alternatively, a similar qualification in education may be undertaken, supported by the Trust up to the equivalent Home Fee Rate.


This advert closes on Wednesday 30 Apr 2025

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