Job Summary
This is 12 month post starting August 2025 for a doctor with MRCP (or equivalent) seeking to establish a career in neurology who is either between core medical and higher training and wants a break, or a higher specialist trainee as an Out of Programme for Experience who has a passion and interest in Medical Education.
Main duties of the job
NEUROLOGY - 2.5 days
You will spend two and a half days a week working with the department of neurology at Nottingham University Hospitals. This is a great opportunity to balance your teaching responsibilities with a well-supported clinical role. Your role will include outpatient clinics including general a first seizure clinic and a number of 1/2 day sessions of day-time on-call.
UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT (UMED) - 2.5 Days
The teaching is focused at undergraduate level. The post involves many teaching opportunities and the chance to build your CV when applying for a training number. It offers the chance to undertake a higher qualification, via the Diploma, Certificate or Masters in Medical Education. You can present at local, regional, national conferences and research innovative ideas in medical education.
About Us
NEUROLOGY
Queen's Medical Centre is the regional neuroscience centre. The department of neurology has 17 Consultant neurologists and 6 Neurology registrars. We have inpatient wards and neurology outpatient clinics in general neurology and all the major subspecialties within neurology, with international level expertise in neuro-inflammatory conditions and regional centres of expertise in complex epilepsy, movement disorders and neuromuscular disorders.
UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT (UMED)
The Department fully supports all Teaching Fellows in developing the course and also UMED also has its own annual Undergraduate Medical Education Conference, where best and innovative practice can be shared. There is a highly experienced teaching department who have the ability to support with IT and advice to develop you as an educator. The undergraduate course is well established with highly-developed online and bedside teaching program, which is annually updated. The teaching is shared with consultants who have years of experience in delivering the curriculum. The general medicine teaching fellows at NUH form a cohesive group who support each other in delivering the best possible medical education to University of Nottingham undergraduates.
Job Description
Job responsibilities
Listed below are some of the areas that we expect the Post Holder to be involved with:
1. To work with the neurology education leads (Dr ODonoghue and Dr Sellars) to deliver engaging, high quality, neurology education to medical students based at NUH.
2. To deliver Clinical Years 1 (Foundations for Practice) and Clinical year 3 AP2_ Neurology teaching to medicine students based at QMC and City Campus (mostly face-to-face).
3. To lead on the FFP assessments at NUH.
4. To lead case based discussions and end-of-week clinical reasoning tutorials in line with the online course content.
5. To deliver teaching and support sessions in other areas as appropriate across both sites.
6. To provide teaching on the Early Clinical Experience course at NUH and take a lead on the Neurology sessions.
7. To contribute to Face-to-Face Patient workshops (if they restart COVID allowing) and the Simulated ward rounds at NUH as required.
8. Contribute to the one week CP3 Revision course including taking a lead on Neurology.
9. To become a trained examiner for the Undergraduate Medical Exams, this includes examining, standard setting and contributing to the written paper.
10. To further develop online resources at NUH a Neurology curriculum from learning objectives set out by the Medical School.
11. Working with consultants to take a strategic overview of the Neurology objectives within the curriculum.
12. Working with the Undergraduate Medical Education and Neurology team, to develop innovative teaching methods across the clinical course at NUH, including the use of new technologies within this field.
13. To contribute and support the Neurology element of the NUH patient database for medical education.
14. To support and play an active role where appropriate in other teaching courses within the Trust such as the TIPs course and Peer Review of junior doctors teaching.
15. To work with the team to take a strategic overview of Neurology within the clinical course.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* MBBS or equivalent
* Full GMC registration
* MRCP (or equivalent)
Desirable
* Certificate of Neurology training, or equivalent
Experience
Essential
* Previous clinical experience in neurology
* Previous teaching experience
Desirable
* Evidence of academic excellence
* ALS certificate holder
Communication and relationship skills
Essential
* High level computer skills
* Effective time management
* Ability to work effectively with both clinical and non-clinical colleagues
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Analytical and Judgement skills
Essential
* Good attention to detail.
* Comprehensive IT skills (including MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, databases, Internet and email).
Planning and organisation skills
Essential
* Good time management skills and ability to exercise own initiative.
Desirable
* Creativity and self-motivation
Other requirements specific to the role
Essential
* Willing to travel for meetings outside Nottingham to meet with collaborators
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts
Address
Queen's Medical Centre Campus
Derby Road
Nottingham
NG7 2UH
Employer's website
https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/ #J-18808-Ljbffr