Start date: 5 August 2026
Hours: Full‑time or LTFT
Kick‑start your interest in medical education with a dynamic year as a Foundation Clinical Teaching Fellow. This is a brilliant opportunity to grow your teaching skills, develop your portfolio and join a friendly, supportive education team.
What You'll Gain
Hands‑on teaching experience with real responsibility
Funded development opportunities
A strong education portfolio for future applications
Supportive supervision and mentoring from senior educators
To be eligible for this post you must be able to evidence that you have completed the UK Foundation Programme (UKFP) and have a Foundation Programme Certificate of Completion or be a current F2 doctor working towards completion of the UK Foundation Programme (UKFP).
This is a fixed term contract for 12 months commencing on 5th August 2026 until 3rd August 2027 (subject to employment clearances).
What You'll Do
Deliver engaging teaching for undergraduate and foundation learners
Develop tutorials, workshops, PBL and digital learning sessions
Support Trust‑wide education projects and faculty development
Optional protected clinical session to maintain clinical skills
No on‑call commitments
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset. Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Joanna Whitson Job title: Director of Medical Education Email address:
We welcome informal enquiries and visits.
Dr Joanna Whitson, Director of Medical Education
CTF Team