Education Fellow - Emergency Medicine
Job overview
Applicants are invited to apply for the role of Education fellow in Frimley Emergency Department. The role is 75% clinical and 25% non-clinical. We are looking for doctors to start August 2025.
This is an excellent opportunity for doctors to maintain clinical work but also have time in their schedules dedicated to areas of interest to them. We see this as a way of sustainable working whilst also building on CVs and experience.
Clinical fellow posts are also available in: Simulation, Trauma, Ultrasound, Research, Quality Improvement and Wellbeing. Separate job adverts are also out for these roles.
If you are interested applying for more than one role, please just make one application to the role you are most interested in and state in the ‘supporting information’ section of your application, all of the fellowship topics you would be interested in applying for and why.
Study leave: 18 days (10 days general study leave, 5 days private study leave, 3 days for exams or interviews). Study budget: £650 per year.
The emergency medicine rota will include evening, night, weekend and bank holiday working. LTFT enquiries are welcome.
Applicants must have a minimum of 24 months experience working as a doctor in the NHS. This advert is open to ST1/2 and ST3+ applicants.
Main duties of the job- To organise and deliver MDT teaching for the ED
- To provide medical student teaching
- To support medical students on ED placement and help with their induction
- To organise the medical student supervision rota for the times they are present in the department. (Supervision is carried out by the education and simulation fellows plus any other fellows with an interest in teaching)
- To partake in simulation training
- To organise either the SHO or the middle grade teaching programme, supported by the consultant lead for medical education
- To collect and analyse the feedback from the teaching programmes
- To produce the Education Newsletter and maintain the Education board
- To provide feedback on peers’ teaching (and complete teaching observation assessments depending on grade)
- To be able to deliver virtual teaching
- To support regional training days hosted by Frimley ED
- To work with the other ED fellows to expand their experience and support each other’s project.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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The Consultant body is friendly and energetic. They are committed to working together as a team to ensure that the Emergency Departments on both sites continue to deliver outstanding, quality, consultant delivered care to their patients and enjoy good working relationships with Speciality colleagues and other directorates.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please review the detailed Job description attached to this advert.
This job description is an indication of the type and range of tasks that are expected of the post holder, and other duties may be required, in line with the role and the banding. It will be reviewed and amended from time to time in consultation with the post holder to take account of changing organisational need.
Person specification
Qualifications and Experience
Essential criteria- Registered with the GMC
- 2 years experience in the NHS
- Clinical experience relevant to emergency medicine
- Evidence of interest in, and commitment to the type of fellowship they would like to apply for
- Project work which demonstrates motivation, initiative and the ability to see projects through
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.