Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
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Job overview
Applications are invited from CT3 Trainees and SpR/ST4-6 for appointment to a Fellow in Medical Education (FME) placement.
We would like the successful applicant to start in post on the 5th of August 2026.
This unique post offers an exciting opportunity to develop experience and skills as a medical educator. The Fellowship will consist of an out of programme experience for a period of twelve months attached to the Department of Medical Education within North East London NHS Foundation Trust.
The role follows a hybrid work structure where the postholder can work remotely, from the Simulation centre or any other site depending on service requirements.
We recommend that you discuss this with your Training Programme Director(s) before applying
INTERVIEW DATE: 15TH DECEMBER 2025 AM
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will play an active role in the teaching and training of undergraduate medical students, resident doctors and other medical staff within: NELFT; Barts & The London School of Medicine and Dentistry (SMD); and the London Deanery. .
Working for our organisation
NELFT covers a large geographical area and the role requires you to have the ability to travel effectively throughout these sites when required.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The main responsibilities within the role involves collaboration with the Associate Dean for undergraduate Medical Education to develop and deliver the in-house teaching programme for undergraduate medical students undertaking Psychiatry placements within the Trust. This will include contributing to regular student induction days, coordinating fellow psychiatric resident doctors to teach students, organizing and delivering clinical interview skills simulation training, leading weekly student reflective practice groups and organising the Trust’s annual A-level student work experience summer school programme
The role expects the post holder to actively contribute to the development and delivery of the Trust’s postgraduate education programme for Resident doctors and other medical professionals.
The post holder will undertake projects in medical education, under the supervision of the Director of medical education, Undergraduate Associate Dean. postgraduate tutors and the medical education manager, and will be supported to attend a formal university course in medical education, with potential to pursue this to diploma or masters level.
To ensure that the post holder maintains their clinical involvement during the attachment it would be beneficial to carry out two sessions of clinical work per week in a psychiatric subspecialty of choice within NELFT.
The successful applicant has an optional on call commitment at either core or higher trainee level, which will be remunerated appropriately.
Person specification
Application form and interview
Essential criteria
1. CT3 Trainees and ST4-6 trainees
Desirable criteria
2. Teaching experience
Desirable Criteria
Essential criteria
3. Evidence of educational leadership potential
Desirable
Essential criteria
4. Teaching Experience
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
5. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
6. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
7. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
8. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.