Clinical Teaching Fellow (Emergency Department)

Principle activities within the role - Education:

1. To assist in the development, co-ordination, and delivery of undergraduate teaching for students from Sunderland University across Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust at sites including, but not limited to, Hexham, North Tyneside, Wansbeck General Hospitals, Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington and community sites. The Teaching Fellow will participate in delivering and monitoring courses and clinical teaching across year 3, 4 and 5 of the Sunderland University undergraduate medical curriculum.

2. To develop the teaching and educational skills of the Teaching Fellow, the post holder will be expected to register for the Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education, institution to be confirmed, with Home Fees funded by the Trust. Alternatively, a similar qualification in education may be undertaken, supported by the Trust up to the equivalent Home Fee Rate.

3. To support the design, development, implementation and review of simulation and technology enhanced learning teaching sessions.

4. To conduct a small-scale educational project, for example an audit or the development of new innovative teaching material.

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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes'

To provide a broad range of educational experience to each fellow in order to progress their scholarship, teaching skills and clinical acumen.

In addition to the above, the post will allow the post holder sufficient independence to develop their own area of interest within medical education and to study towards a recognised teaching qualification.

This post is ideal for a candidate with an interest in Emergency Medicine and Education, wishing to broaden their career following their Foundation training. The time is split equally between providing clinical care in the department and education, predominantly to undergraduates. Although it is not a formal training post, the successful candidate will be working alongside trainees in nationally recognised training positions, and receive the same support, supervision, and access to teaching as them. Supervision from senior doctors in Emergency Medicine.