Full Time Teaching Fellow

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; North Shields; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare organization in North Shields seeks a Teaching Fellow to enhance undergraduate medical teaching. This role involves assisting in curriculum delivery across various hospitals, developing educational skills, and engaging in innovative teaching projects. Candidates should have opportunities for further qualifications and experience in teaching within a collaborative environment. The position offers valuable experience in one of England's top NHS trusts, known for its supportive staff and commitment to quality education.

Benefits

Further educational qualifications funding

Supportive working environment

Opportunities for career advancement

Qualifications

• Must have clinical teaching experience and be registered for a postgraduate education qualification.
• Should have strong communication skills for engaging with students.
• Experience with innovative teaching methods and educational projects is essential.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the coordination and delivery of undergraduate teaching.
• Develop and support simulation-based learning sessions.
• Conduct educational projects such as audits or new teaching material.

Skills

Educational skills development

Clinical decision-making

Collaboration teamwork

Education

Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education

Job description

Overview

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

To deliver high quality undergraduate clinical teaching within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

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 will have a base site of Wansbeck or North Tyneside General Hospital and allocation details will be given to the successful candidates on appointment.

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.

Responsibilities

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.
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.

Additional Information

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’ before submitting your application.

• Augment their existing clinical, educational, and intellectual skills in order to make decisions and problem solve for the benefit of the patient, students, and others within the Trust.
• Provide evidence-based clinical and educational practice which is robust and makes optimum use of available resources including local expertise and experience.
• Develop their current interpersonal and communication skills with regards to effective collaboration and conducive to co-operation within teams
• Develop confidence and competence as a ‘beginning’ specialist in clinical, educational, and scholarly practice.
• Convey enthusiasm for their specialty to undergraduate medical students.
• Gain experience of teaching across curricula and within rotations
• Develop their academic and scholarship profile in their field of interest.

This advert closes on Thursday 18 Dec 2025