Primary Care Lead

Tees Valley; Tees Valley; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

The Primary Care Lead at Teesside University will provide strategic, academic and clinical leadership for primary care and community-based medical education across the MBBS programme. They will lead the development of high-quality learning opportunities, ensuring integration of general practice into the curriculum and addressing patient and community needs.

Working with academic colleagues, NHS partners and clinical educators, they will support a network of primary care learning environments,

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic, academic and clinical leadership for primary care education across the MBBS programme.
• Lead development of high-quality, sustainable primary care learning opportunities and integrate general practice into the curriculum.
• Collaborate with NHS partners and clinical educators to establish a strong network of primary care learning environments.
• Support the Medical School in ensuring quality, regulatory and educational standards are met.
• Contribute to teaching, facilitation, clinical skills education, assessment and student support in primary care.

Job description

The Primary Care Lead will provide strategic, academic and clinical leadership for primary care and community-based medical education across the MBBS programme.

The postholder will lead the development of high-quality, sustainable primary care learning opportunities, ensuring that general practice and community-based care are integrated throughout the curriculum and reflect the needs of patients, communities and the contemporary healthcare workforce.

Working collaboratively with academic colleagues, primary care providers, NHS partners and clinical educators, the postholder will support the development of a strong network of primary care learning environments and educators. They will provide leadership for the quality and development of primary care placements, contribute to clinical educator development, and support the Medical School in meeting relevant educational, quality and regulatory requirements.

The postholder will make an active contribution to delivery of the MBBS programme through teaching, facilitation, clinical skills education, assessment and student support. They will provide students with appropriate clinical insight and role modelling, ensuring that teaching is informed by contemporary primary care practice and promotes person-centred, holistic and integrated care.

The Primary Care Lead will work across the Medical School to ensure that primary care contributes fully to students’ developing clinical reasoning, consultation and communication skills, professionalism, prevention and population health, management of long-term and complex conditions, and multidisciplinary and interprofessional working.

Through educational leadership, direct teaching and partnership working, the postholder will champion the contribution of primary care to undergraduate medical education and help establish a distinctive, high-quality primary care experience for Teesside medical students.

The position we are filling is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and a satisfactory DBS disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service is required as part of our clearance procedures.

Please be advised that due to the minimum salary thresholds imposed by the UKVI, this post will not qualify for University sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route.

If you are shortlisted, your interview will take place in person.

Please note that the University may ask you to participate in a number of selection activities as part of the recruitment process for this vacancy.

Interview date – Friday 11 December 2026

To To find out more about the benefits offered by Teesside University, please review our Employee Benefits Brochure.
https://www.tees.ac.uk/depts/hr/benefits.cfm