Clinical Teaching Fellow Child Health

NHS; Swindon; On-site; GBP 52,000 - GBP 66,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in Swindon is seeking a Clinical Teaching Fellow focusing on Undergraduate Medical Education. This role provides a mix of educational and clinical responsibilities, ideal for post-foundation year doctors looking to gain experience before entering specialty training. With a supportive environment prioritizing staff wellbeing, this fixed-term position includes opportunities to work with students from renowned universities and offers competitive annual salaries. Excellent management, teaching experience, and a medical degree are required.

Qualifications

• Must have completed Foundation Training (Yrs 1 & 2) within the NHS.
• Experience in management and administration is required.
• Evidence of teaching experience is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver formal teaching sessions for medical students.
• Ensure regular communication with the undergraduate managers.
• Engage in the clinical component working with medical teams.

Skills

Teaching Experience

Management/Administration Experience

Commitment to Innovation

Wellbeing commitment

Education

MBBS, MBChB, or equivalent medical degree

Job description

Overview

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Clinical Teaching Fellow (Post 7) Child Health. The closing date is 23 February 2026.

These roles are replacement roles within the Academy of the Great Western Hospital with a focus on Undergraduate Medical Education. As a Trust, we place high importance on staff wellbeing, and you will be offered a wide variety of support to help you maintain your wellbeing and to help colleagues maintain theirs.

These posts (table 1) are aimed at post-foundation year doctors who wish to spend time working in a medical educational role at The Academy in Swindon, working with medical students from the University of Bristol (UoB), Oxford (UoO), and Kings College London (KCL).

The Clinical Teaching Fellow role is intended as a fixed-term career development opportunity, normally taken for one year prior to specialty training. The posts are fixed term for 12 months as it is designed as a fellowship position rather than a permanent service role. The posts are suitable for doctors who wish to take time out before starting higher medical training or doctors who want to take a year out of a training programme (subject to agreement by the relevant training programme director) or for doctors interested in an academic career who wish to pursue a higher degree such as an MSc or doctorate (MD). These posts are made up of an educational role (80%) delivered in the academy as well as a supernumerary clinical component in the NHS Trust (20%). Or 50% clinical and 50% educational ward-based roles as described below.

Main duties of the job

The Duties outlined below are not definitive and may be changed in accordance with the needs of the service.

1. The CTFs work on a day-to-day basis with the Academy Undergraduate Manager and administrators, and the UC / UT's who are responsible for organizing the formal teaching programme and clinical placements for that Unit in their Academy. They will ensure that specified formal teaching sessions are appropriately timetabled and delivered.
2. CTFs need to be in regular communication with the UT / UC and with each other. They meet formally throughout the year, to review the course and plan for the future. In order to achieve this each CTF will develop and use an individual or group CTF Outlook Calendar.
3. An Office Based CTF is expected to work 40 hrs per week 09:00 - 17:00, of which one day will be spent in a clinical specialty, see allocation of clinical areas of responsibility below. It is recognized that the workload is variable and that the hours will need to be flexible. A Ward Based CTF appointed to ED and/or ITU (6-12-month rotation) will generally work one or two weeks clinical/one- or two-weeks Academy and will be included on the departmental rota which will include some weekends. See rotations in Table 1.
4. It must be recognized that students will be present in an Academy for only part of a calendar year. When considering the sessional commitment, periods of greater or less educational activity need to be averaged over the year.

About us

Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are. We will expect your values and behaviours to reflect the STAR Values of the organisation:

Service We will put our patients first.

Teamwork We will work together.

Ambition We will aspire to provide the best service.

Respect We will act with integrity

Job responsibilities

The educational component

The educational duties of the CTF office-based role are 80% of their time in the academy environment. These are set out in table I and include responsibility for the student choice projects and associated fieldtrips. The specific area of educational responsibility will be determined by the appointee's interests.

The clinical component

CTF office-based will spend 20% of their time (up to two sessions/week) working clinically. It is an opportunity to try out a specialty before applying for higher postgraduate training. The clinical role is a supernumerary working daytime hours (band 1A). If the appointee wishes to participate in out of hours or the on-call rota, this can be negotiated with the Clinical Lead/Rota Coordinator for the department. They will be paid separately by the clinical department for this. It should be noted that if the appointee chooses to opt into an out of hours/on-call rota, it must have no impact on the educational component of their role (no compensatory time off during the academic component).

WB-CTF CCU/ED (Post 9) will spend 50% of their time working clinically and 50% Academy. For F3 doctors this will generally involve 6 months in the emergency department (ED) and another 6 months in ITU. For doctors who have already begun specialist training in ED or ITU they will be placed in that clinical area for the entire 12 months and this may also be negotiated on request. The same terms and conditions regarding work patterns, including out of hours / on call will apply as for F3 doctors (above).

WB-CTF in ED/Acute Care (Post 10) will spend 50% of their time working clinically and 50% Academy. For F3 doctors this will generally involve 6 months in the emergency dept (ED) and another 6 months in AC. For doctors who have already begun specialist training in ED or AC they will be placed in that clinical area for the entire 12 months and this may also be negotiated on request. The same terms and conditions regarding work patterns, including out of hours / on call will apply as for F3 doctors (above).

WB-CTF in Acute Medicine (Post 11) will spend 12 months in AM rotating 50% of their time working clinically and 50% Academy. The same terms and conditions regarding work patterns, including out of hours / on call will apply as for F3 doctors (above).

WB-CTF in all other specialities (Posts 12, 13, 14, 15) will spend 12 months in the same clinical area working 50% clinical and 50% Academy. The same terms and conditions regarding work patterns, including out of hours / on call will apply as for F3 doctors (above).

Clinical teaching fellows may need, under exceptional circumstance, be re-allocated to other clinical areas at the direction of the Medical Director and the Trust Executive Board.

For doctors who have already begun specialist training they will be placed in that clinical area for the entire 12 months. The same terms and conditions for out of hours/ on call duties set out above will apply.

For further information please see the job description

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MBBS, MBChB, or equivalent medical degree

Experience

• Must have completed Foundation Training (Yrs 1 & 2) within the NHS (proof will be required during the application process)
• Management/Administration Experience
• Teaching Experience

Knowledge

• Commitment to Innovation
• Colleagues and Medical Student wellbeing

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.

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£52,656 to £65,048 a year pro rata per annum