Clinical Teaching Fellow (Post 11) Acute Care 12 months in Swindon

A 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 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 Duties outlined below are not definitive and may be changed in accordance with the needs of the service. The CTFs work on a day-to-day basis with the Academy Undergraduate Manager and administrators, and the UC / UT’s who are responsible for organizing 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. It is recognized 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.

It must be recognized 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.

Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are. We will expect your values and behaviours to reflect the STAR Values of the organisation:

• 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.

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 they include responsibility for the student choice projects and associated fieldtrips. The specific area of educational responsibility will be determined by the appointee’s interests.

The clinical component 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 post graduate training. The clinical role is a 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) will spend 50% of their time working clinically and 50% Academy. For F3 doctors this will generally involve 6 months in the emergency dept (ED) and another 6 months in ITU. For doctors who have already begun specialist training in ED or ITU they will be placed in that clinical area for the entire 12 months and this may also be negotiated on request.

The same T & C’s regarding work patterns, including out of hours / on call will apply as for F3 doctors.

WB-CTF in ED/Acute Care (Post 10) will spend 50% of their time working clinically and 50% Academy. For F3 doctors this will generally involve 6 months in the emergency dept (ED) and another 6 months in AC. For doctors who have already begun specialist training in ED or AC they will be placed in that clinical area for the entire 12 months and this may also be negotiated on request.

The same T & C’s regarding work patterns, including out of hours / on call will apply as for F3 doctors.

WB-CTF in Acute Medicine (Post 11) will spend 12 months in AM rotating 50% of their time working clinically and 50% Academy. The same T & C’s regarding work patterns, including out of hours / on call will apply as for F3 doctors.

WB-CTF in all other specialities (Posts 12, 13, 14, 15) will spend 12 months in the same clinical area working 50% clinical and 50% Academy. The same T & C’s regarding work patterns, including out of hours / on call will apply as for F3 doctors.

Clinical teaching fellows may need, under exceptional circumstance, be re-allocated to other clinical areas at the direction of the Medical Director and the Trust Executive Board. For doctors who have already begun specialist training they will be placed in that clinical area for the entire 12 months. The same T & C for out of hours/ on call duties set out above will apply.

For further information please see the job description.