Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow
Posted 2 hours 48 minutes ago by NHS
Closing date: 13 July 2026
This is a creation of a new post of Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow across North & South Care Groups. The aim is for this role to bring an overview and consistency in the development and delivery of undergraduate teaching as medical school numbers expand and bring opportunities for innovation and creativity trust wide.
The role further develops the clinical teaching fellow, with responsibility for becoming an expert and delivering quality medical education experience across both undergraduate and postgraduate training & development of different educational events. There is greater emphasis on leadership and management and linking in with partner universities.
The role consists of 4 days of Medical Education activity & 1 day of clinical activity.
Main duties of the jobTo lead in the development, planning, delivery and monitoring of teaching for relevant medical school undergraduate students, working with the Clinical Teaching Fellows, Undergraduate Tutors, DUCS, Nurse Lead and Medical Education Faculty.
Act as a direct source of educational advice and expertise, offering guidance to clinical and medical staff on all aspects of the medical student programme.
Collaborate with Education by Experience Educator, other service users and carers to develop workshops and teaching.
Lead and contribute to the development of Simulation Projects & facilitation of Simulation teaching activities by the Medical Education Faculty and in collaboration with the Simulation Tutor.
Support input into areas of clinical need to support the inclusion of students in that team. This may include attending local service team meetings to disseminate and share information regarding medical student programmes, targeting support for those teams who have barriers and offering assisted support to clinicians to ensure the delivery of a positive learning experience to medical students or supporting CTFS and Nurse Specialists to provide host team support.
Support the faculty with strategic direction in the delivery of undergraduate medical student and postgraduate foundation programme teaching.
To provide pastoral support to the differing medical student groups as required.
About usWe are Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. We provide mental health and learning disability services to people of all ages. We deliver a range of community and in patient care across adult mental health, children and young people services, mental health services for older people and forensic services. We have over 7,000 staff working across more than 90 sites.
Geographically, we are one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the country, spanning County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire and York and Selby.
Our Values- Compassion - kind, supporting, recognising and celebrating
- Responsibility - honest, learning, ambitious
- To co-create a great experience for our patients, carers and staff
- To co-create a great experience for our colleagues
- To be a great partner
- Lease car scheme
- Access to support, individual therapy & mindfulness sessions
- Access to individual coaching and career development
- Free flu vaccinations
- Working in modern or refurbished premises
- Able to show commitment to Trust values of respect, involvement and well being.
- Able to work co-operatively in a multi disciplinary team and to delegate appropriately.
- Evidence of annual appraisal and commitment to appraisal and revalidation.
- Knowledge and understanding of the NHS Healthcare Leadership Model (HLM)
- Able to show essential behaviours on the 9 dimensions of the HLM
- Able to manage and prioritise workload and cope under pressure.
- Able to show proficient behaviours on the 9 dimensions of the HLM
- Able to demonstrate good clinical skills and knowledge in psychiatry with a bio psycho social perspective.
- Able to demonstrate good clinical communication skills showing empathy and sensitivity.
- Person centred and recovery focused.
- Postgraduate experience in the relevant specialty.
- Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty.
- Able to undertake duties under MHA and MCA.
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
- Passed paper A MRCPsych
- Has achieved or working towards a PG Cert in Medical Education or similar teaching qualification
- Has achieved or working towards a PG Cert in Medical Education or similar teaching qualification
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
- At least 4 years postgraduate experience, including at least 2 years in a core psychiatry training programme in UK or abroad
- In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
- Can evidence knowledge / experience of UK medical schools & MH curriculum
- Approved under S12 of MHA OR able to achieve within 6 months of appointment
- Postgraduate experience in the relevant specialty.
- Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty.
- Able to undertake duties under MHA and MCA.
- Participated in and reflected on the purpose of continuous professional development
- Participated actively in clinical audit.
- Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
- Able to demonstrate higher level skills in delivering undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training.
- Participated in research or service evaluation and clinical audit
- Knowledge of UK undergraduate training and work in NHS
- Experience of designing and delivering Simulation Based Education.
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.