Clinical Teaching Fellow SPR - Simulation

The closing date is 26 January 2026

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT) is a teaching hospital associated with the University of Warwick Medical School (WMS) and the University of Buckingham Medical School (uBMS).

We are advertising for a Clinical Education Fellow at SPR level to join our medical education team in providing education and training to both medical students and resident doctors.

This post has a particular focus on simulation-based education. The successful applicant will play a key role in the design, delivery and development of simulation and skills teaching across undergraduate, postgraduate and multidisciplinary programmes within the Trust.

Clinical Teaching Fellow - Simulation

The medical education simulation team at SWFT is led by Dr Rathinavel Shanmugam working with a simulation educator and a technician. We also have a lead nurse who works across workforce and medical education and co-ordinates simulation activities within the Trust.

The Trust has an education facility off site (Acorn House) which includes two fully equipped simulation suites, high fidelity manikins, state-of-the-art audio-visual equipment and the support of a multidisciplinary simulation faculty. All of our clinical educators have the opportunity to be involved in the running and development of simulation.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

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The post-holder will take a lead, supported by the Director of Medical Education, simulation educator, technician and multidisciplinary faculty, in medical education simulation and skills courses. This will include delivery and also reviewing and developing scenarios and teaching materials to ensure consistently high quality teaching is delivered to our students and postgraduate doctors. The post-holder will also be required to participate in non-medical workforce simulation sessions, including in- situ simulation sessions.

When there are no simulation sessions planned the post-holder will participate in other teaching sessions which are delivered by the CEF team.

• Current full registration with the General Medical Council
• Four years post-graduation experience working in medicine
• Experience of working in a UK NHS setting including knowledge of healthcare policies and systems
• MRCP/MRCS or equivalent

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust