Position Details
College of Medicine and Health, School of Medical Sciences
Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK
Full time starting salary is normally in the range £45,943 to with potential progression once in post to £77,196
Clinical
Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to July 2028
Closing date: 1st July 2026
This role is also open as an internal secondment opportunity which would need to be agreed by your current line manager.
Background
We are seeking to appoint a cohort of Clinical Teaching Fellows to join the College of Medicine & Health at an exciting time when our MBChB curriculum and programme structure are under review. The new appointees will join a well-established team of academics and teaching fellows to contribute to the development of the programme, with a particular focus on supporting undergraduate teaching, with a focus on student support, programme assessment and delivery.
The purpose of this role is to provide supporting clinical input to the undergraduate medical programme.
Clinical Teaching Fellows will be required to work with academic and clinical staff to:
- Support subject leads in ensuring content is appropriate
- Facilitate small group teaching to augment a reduced clinical placement programme
- Contribute to low stakes assessment and formative feedback
- Contribute to summative assessments
The post-holder will be expected and supported to undertake a Postgraduate Certification in Education for Health Professionals delivered by the University, if not previously obtained. This role does not have any line management responsibility and is not directly linked to income generation.
This post is advertised at 1.0FTE but less than full time (minimum 0.6) will also be considered.
Role Summary
Contribute to teaching and assessment across the MBChB Programme. In addition, you will be expected to contribute to academic citizenship, likely to be demonstrated through generous, mutually respectful and supportive working relationships with all staff and students.
Teaching
Teaching is likely to include developing, piloting and evaluating new sessions and assessments for our exciting Curriculum 2030 project, where you will be focussed on clinical integration and clinical reasoning in Y1 and Y2. You will support lecture and small group teaching sessions for students across the five years to augment their clinical placements, you will therefore be expected to have experience of working in the NHS. You may be asked to deliver teaching normally delivered by senior staff to release them for curriculum development activities. You also will be facilitating Clinical Communication teaching sessions, and Interprofessional education sessions. To support your development as an educator we require all CTFs to undertake a PGCert in Education for Health Professionals. We will offer training as needed in teaching delivery.
Assessment
You will be involved in assessment checking and question writing, alongside essay marking. You will also be asked to support OSCE examinations and may be asked to be a Senior Invigilator for our examinations. Training is provided for all assessment tasks.
Student support
All CTFs act as personal academic tutors for a group of students. We also ask you to provide academic support for our widening participation students, and to supervise student elective projects.
Prior to examinations you will provide revision sessions for students and remediation for students needing to take supplementary assessments.
Pedagogic Research
We encourage CTFs to engage in pedagogic research and to build on the work being done in the medical school with many current and continuing pilot exercises and publish and present if appropriate
Project: working groups
You will be asked to contribute to project working groups to operationalise Curriculum 2030. This: will be ongoing, and your contributions to design and innovation will be valuable.
Main Duties
Under guidance from the academic supervisors who have the ultimate responsibility for the design, delivery and assessment of the module or teaching programme:
- Teach courses at a range of levels within specified subject area and within own area of subject specialism to undergraduates, postgraduates and CPD students, predominantly through allocated lectures and seminars, so that the School’s teaching objectives are met.
- Contribute to the design of modules with other colleagues.
- Plan and prepare own teaching, including guidance notes and handouts in accordance with the established objectives of the teaching programme.
- Devise and supervise projects, student dissertations and practical work.
- Develop an approach to planning and reviewing own teaching.
- Undertake full range of responsibilities in relation to supervision, marking and examining. (Summative assessment, including assessed work contributing to the final award – as a mark or as a credit – such as unseen examinations, essays, dissertations or presentations, is subject to validation by the academic supervisor.)
- Frequently update own subject expertise.
- Undertake personal professional development in teaching, including self-reflection on own teaching, using student and peer review feedback, to enhance own teaching and learning processes.
- Contribute to knowledge transfer on own specialism that is of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a project leader.
- Undertake management/administration arising from teaching.
- Contribute to Departmental/School teaching-related activities and teaching-related administration.
- Contribute to enterprise, business development and/or public engagement activities of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a project leader.
Promotes equality and values diversity acting as a role model and fostering an inclusive working culture.
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Person Specification
Essential
- Primary Medical Qualification (MBChB, MBBS or equivalent)
- Evidence of achievement of Foundation competencies in line with GMC standards/Good Medical Practice (or equivalent)
- Hold and maintain GMC registration
- Experience of working in the NHS
- Ability to teach in an undergraduate medicine context
- A knowledge of the GMC Outcomes for Doctors and the principles of the Medical Licensing Assessment
- Good organisational skills including the capacity to manage time and prioritise workload, balance important and urgent demands, as well as follow instructions.
- Excellent communication skills; written and oral
- Ability to establish good relations with colleagues
- Ability to use IT for teaching
- Willingness to learn and contribute to broader management/administration processes
- Willingness to undertake Postgraduate Qualification in Medical Education, if not already held
- Knowledge of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010, and how to actively ensure in day-to-day activity in own area, that those with protected characteristics are treated equally and fairly.
Desirable
- Postgraduate medical qualification (MRCP, MRCS or similar)
- Medical education qualification
- Experience of creating learning materials for use by medical students
- Experience of running and developing scenarios for use in simulation
- Evidence of recent audit and research projects completed satisfactorily in the last 2 years.
Knowledge of web-based learning design
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Further particulars can be found here
Informal enquiries to Dr Anna Caley [email protected]
View our staff values and behaviours here
Use of AI in applications: We want to understand your genuine interest in the role and for the written elements of your application to accurately reflect your own communication style. Applications that rely too heavily on AI tools can appear generic and lack the detail we need to assess your skills and experience. Such applications will unlikely be progressed to interview.
We believe there is no such thing as a 'typical' member of University of Birmingham staff and that diversity in its many forms is a strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation and debate at the heart of University life. We are committed to proactively addressing the barriers experienced by some groups in our community and are proud to hold Athena SWAN, Race Equality Charter and Disability Confident accreditations. We have an Equality Diversity and Inclusion Centre that focuses on continuously improving the University as a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. We are also committed to sustainability, which is a key part of our strategy. You can find out more about our work to create a fairer university for everyone on our website .
