Clinical Teaching Fellow; Post Diabetes & Endocrinology

Vacancy at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

These roles are replacement roles within the Academy of the Great Western Hospital with a focus on Undergraduate Medical Education. As a Trust, we place high importance on staff wellbeing, you will be offered a wide variety of support to help you maintain your wellbeing and to help colleagues maintain theirs.

These posts (Table
1) are aimed at post‑foundation year doctors who wish to spend time working in a medical educational role at The Academy in Swindon working with medical students from the University of Bristol (UoB), Oxford (UoO), and Kings College London (KCL). The Clinical Teaching Fellow role is intended as a fixed‑term career development opportunity, normally taken for one year prior to specialty training.

The posts are fixed term for 12 months as it is designed as a fellowship position rather than a permanent service role. The posts are suitable for doctors who wish to take time out before starting higher medical training or doctors who want to take a year out of a training programme (subject to agreement by the relevant training programme director) or for doctors interested in an academic career who wish to pursue a higher degree such as an MSc or doctorate (MD).

These posts are made up of an educational role (80 %) delivered in the academy as well as a supernumerary clinical component in the NHS Trust (20 %). Or 50 % clinical and 50 % educational ward‑based roles as described below.

• The CTF works on a day‑to‑day basis with the Academy Undergraduate Manager and administrators, and the UC / UT’s who are responsible for organising the formal teaching programme and clinical placements for that Unit in their Academy. They will ensure that specified formal teaching sessions are appropriately timetabled and delivered.
• CTFs need to be in regular communication with the UT / UC and with each other. They meet formally throughout the year, to review the course and plan for the future. In order to achieve this each CTF will develop and use an individual or group CTF Outlook Calendar.
• An Office‑Based CTF is expected to work 40 hrs per week (09:00 – 17:00), of which one day will be spent in a clinical specialty, see allocation of clinical areas of responsibility below. It is recognised that the workload is variable and that the hours will need to be flexible. A Ward‑Based CTF appointed to ED and/or ITU (6–12‑month rotation) will generally work one or two weeks clinical/one‑ or two‑weeks Academy and will be included on the departmental rota which will include some weekends.
  
  See rotations in Table 1.
• It must be recognised that students will be present in an Academy for only part of a calendar year. When considering the sessional commitment, periods of greater or less educational activity need to be averaged over the year.

• Service – We will put our patients first.
• Teamwork – We will work together.
• Ambition – We will aspire to provide the best service.
• Respect – We will act with integrity.

12. The educational duties of the CTF – office based – will mostly be delivered in the academy environment (80 % of their time). These are set out in Table I and include responsibility for the student choice projects and associated field trips. The specific area of educational responsibility will be determined by the appointee’s interests.

• CTF – office based will spend 20 % of their time (up to two sessions/week) working clinically. It is an opportunity to try out a specialty before applying for higher postgraduate training. The clinical role is supernumerary working daytime hours (band 1A). However, if the appointee does wish to participate in the out of hours or the on‑call rota, this can be negotiated with the Clinical Lead/Rota Coordinator for the Dept.
  
  They will be paid separately by the clinical dept for this. It should be noted that where an appointee chooses to opt into an out of hours / on‑call rota, it must have no impact on the educational component of their role (no compensatory time off during the academic component).
• WB‑CTF CCU/ED (Post 9) – spend 50 % of their time working…