Academic Teaching Fellow (Clinical Educator)

SALARY & HOURS: £25,848.60 (Part Time – 0.6 FTE)   

Are you looking for an exciting medical education role for a fixed term period until 24 December 2025 at 0.6 FTE (3 days a week, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) at our Northern Campus in Crewe?

We are now recruiting for this role for successful applicants to start in July.

PLEASE NOTE, WHILST WE ARE RECRUITING FOR A SIX-MONTH FIXED TERM APPOINTMENT STARTING IN JULY, WE CAN OFFER SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES AN IMMEDIATE START IF APPROPRIATE. IRRESPECTIVE OF START DATE, THE CONTRACT WILL BE FIXED TERM UNTIL DECEMBER 24 2025.

This post is an ideal opportunity for a doctor who wishes to develop educational insight and capability. The post holder will work with the unit leads in planning and delivering all aspects of undergraduate medical education in Phase 1 of the curriculum in a variety of different methods. The role has an emphasis on clinical skills and providing clinical context for students learning in early years. As part of the educator team the position offers the opportunities for involvement in a variety of academic tasks including student assessment and applicant selection for places at the medical school.

We are a short 5 minute walk from Crewe train station and only 10 minutes from the M6, giving us excellent connections to Manchester, Liverpool and beyond.

Main duties of the job

The primary role of the clinical educators is to support the unit leads in delivering group work sessions, to act as group work facilitators and integrate biomedical science in a clinical context for the students learning in the early years.

Secondary to this there is a varied number of additional tasks which an educator may be required to participate in when opportunities arise. These include:

• Exam question writing and marking
• OSCE writing, review and assessing
• Filming videos for clinical skills foundation course, selection stations, OSCE training
• Student selection assessing
• Review and development of teaching materials, including question and model answer writing
• Delivery of revision sessions (to include both written and OSCE revision)
• Student Selection Component supervision
• Personal tutor mentorship for students
• Involvement in Quality Improvement projects in the faculty 

This is not a complete list but provides a flavour of the scope of involvement that the educators have within the Medical School. From time to time, you may be asked to perform additional tasks at the discretion of the Medical School senior leadership team.

The closing date for applications is 8^th April 2025 and it is anticipated that interviews will be held shortly after. 

Please note: if successful, any offer is subject to standard checks, including qualifications, eligibility to work in the UK on a permanent basis and DBS (if applicable) 

If you wish to discuss the role in more detail, please contact Dr Sophie McArthur (sophie.mcarthur@buckingham.ac.uk)

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