The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust (MYTT) is seeking highly motivated, clinically able applicants who wish to gain experience in clinical teaching, medical education, and simulation to work within our highly innovative and exciting medical education team.
These posts have been specifically designed for trainees who are looking to take a 12-month break from their training, after successfully completing their FY2 year, and applicants must have some prior experience in teaching medical undergraduates. This role will enable successful appointees to develop a specialty interest in medical education.
The majority of teaching will be to undergraduate medical students, of all levels but this role will also offer the exciting opportunity to be involved with postgraduate education, in delivering teaching to foundation year 1 & 2 doctors, developing and facilitating our STR1/2DE Teaching Programs.
These are 12-month posts, beginning in August 2025, averaging 3 days per week over the year. However, most days are worked during medical student term times, with more time off over the Christmas, Easter, and Summer periods.
Main duties of the job
The wide and expanding range of clinical fellow educational activities includes:
1. IMPRES5: Our innovative, progressive 8 week teaching programme for Y5 medical students, including case based learning, diagnostic teaching, and simulation.
2. Y4 Specialty Teaching: Clinical teaching and simulation sessions for Y4 medical students on their specialty placements: Acute & Critical Care, Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Sexual Health, and Paediatrics.
3. Y3 Teaching: Tutorial, simulation, and bedside teaching in a range of specialties.
4. Y2 Teaching: Skills, simulation, and bedside teaching.
5. Practice OSCEs
6. Post-Finals Assistantship Programmes
7. Cardiac Arrest Simulation
8. Virtual learning programmes
9. Digital content for MYTT MESH Platform
10. Pastoral support & mentorship
11. Providing student feedback
12. Multi-disciplinary team working
13. Supporting clinical areas within the area of professional interest and clinical locum work
14. STR1DE: Our FY1 teaching programme, including core curriculum teaching cases, simulation, prescribing, leadership, and development of teaching skills
15. STR2DE: Our FY2 teaching programme combining clinical knowledge and educational content with post FY2 career planning
About us
We are an acute trust caring for over half a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients' homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Successful applicants will work cross-site at Pinderfields Hospital and Dewsbury District Hospital, based within the education centers.
We envisage appointees will organise regular additional clinical locum work, within MYTT, in specialties of their choice to maintain clinical competencies, provide evidence for revalidation, and gain clinical experience in individuals areas of interest. Locum work needs to be organised around the educational commitments of this post, and remain EWTD compliant, and will be remunerated at published internal locum rates.
This post is not a recognised UK training post. However, the post-holder will have an enthusiastic educational supervisor and be supported in undertaking a wide range of CV-enhancing activities, as part of their role as a member of the medical education team.
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES IN MID YORKSHIRE
Work in the medical education department will be as part of an enthusiastic, dynamic and growing team of clinicians, clinical teachers and supporting staff, with a wide breadth of experience.
MYTT is well recognised within the region as a centre for educational excellence. We have strong links with Leeds Medical School, and receive excellent feedback regarding our undergraduate teaching with MYTT one of the most popular student placements in the Yorkshire region. We have been awarded a great number of Clinical Teaching Excellence Awards, from Leeds Medical School, in recognition of this.
Clinical fellows receive simulation training, regular appraisals and support during their year in post. There are also opportunities to attend educational or professional courses. We will support clinical fellows who have significantly contributed to undergraduate educational projects to apply for Junior Doctor Developmental Clinical Teaching Excellence Awards from Leeds Medical School.
Clinical fellows will have teaching commitments on all their educational days receiving close mentoring and support to develop as teachers, and will have opportunities to add to and improve existing educational programmes.
At Pinderfields, we have excellent simulation facilities with clinical skills and simulation rooms, high-fidelity 3G SimMan manikins, medium-fidelity ALS/SimPad manikins, and an extensive range of part-body simulators. We are currently developing a simulation suite, in the Oakwell Centre, at Dewsbury and District Hospital. Clinical fellows facilitate simulation courses for medical students from Y2-Y5, and for foundation doctors.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Medical Degree from recognised medical school
* Successful FY2 ARCP outcome or equivalent
* IT experience (i.e. Microsoft Office packages)
Desirable
* Medical School Prizes
* Teaching qualification or prize
GMC registration
Essential
* Please state full GMC number.
* Full GMC Registration with licence to practise
Experience
Essential
* Evidence of an enthusiastic interest in medical education.
* Evidence of delivering formal and informal teaching for medical students
* Recent experience working (within last 2 years) in UK NHS hospitals.
Desirable
* Evidence of teaching on educational programmes and sessions, personally developed and presented.
* Evidence of self-directed individual educational project work.
* Evidence of clinical skills or simulation teaching.
* Recent educational conferences or courses attended.
* Feedback and assessment of educational activity
Personal Attributes
Essential
* Good communication skills.
* Flexibility.
* Able to demonstrate team working.
* Willingness to provide and learn all aspects of hospitals internal systems and processes and adhere to local policies.
* Physically able to carry out the duties as specified in the job description and ability to evidence competencies.
* Disclosure + Barring Service (DBS) Clearance
Desirable
* Has personal insight into own strengths and weaknesses.
* Ability to contribute to the development of the Trust, the Unit and its services.
* Evidence of multidisciplinary team working
* Evidence of leadership, creativity and innovation.
* Specific educational interests and evidence of educational ideas.
Management Skills
Essential
* Demonstrates intelligent and analytical approach to problem solving.
* Good time management.
Desirable
* Good organisational skills
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