King's College London

About Us

GKT Medical Education Fellows (MEFs) are licensed doctors with lived experience of undergraduate medical education and an early track record of high-quality postgraduate medical education. They work with the central MBBS education team to design, create, and deliver high-quality educational initiatives that improve student learning and experience across the GKT MBBS programme.

About The Role

MEFs will predominantly work with students at the Guys and King’s campuses but will also, where possible, support KCL educational teaching partner sites. They will be encouraged to develop their pedagogical skills by applying to study on KCL’s Certificate in Clinical Education, with a proportion of the fee provided.

Each MEF will be encouraged to develop an educational portfolio and will be mentored across the domains of teaching and learning, assessment, student support, curriculum design, quality assurance, and leadership, with encouragement to undertake pedagogical research aligned to growing themes of educational activity within GKT.

The role is offered as 0.2FTE standalone KCL appointment for 12 months and is then reviewed for a possible extension of a further 12–24 months.

This is a part time post (8 hours per week), and you will be offered an fixed term contract until 16 August 2027.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Primary medical qualification /
2. Registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) with licence to practice
3. Active participation in clinical and educational CPD, including Equality and Diversity Training (through NHS or University processes) and full and satisfactory annual appraisal / ARCP
4. Understanding of the role of regulators in health education (GMC, HEE)
5. Skills in developing teaching opportunities responsive to the wishes and aspirations of clinical medical students as well as understanding of Undergraduate
6. Practical experience in undergraduate medical education and Experience of giving high-quality constructive feedback to students
7. Ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of clinical and academic colleagues as well as students and the Academic Centre to enhance outcome and evaluation
8. Ability to problem-solve and achieve desired results in a healthcare or educational setting
9. High-level of oral and written communications skills and working effectively within an educational team

Desirable criteria

1. (A)FHEA or equivalent
2. Experience in pedagogical research or scholarship
3. Experience and understanding of undergraduate medical education at KCL

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the page. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information

At King’s, we believe that the diversity of our community and a culture that is welcoming, open, inclusive and collaborative, are great strengths of the university.

The Equality Act of 2010 protects the rights of our students and staff and provides a framework to fulfil our duties to eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and in addition, to advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between those who share a protected characteristic and those who do not. At times, this will include balancing rights and beliefs that can feel in tension.

We are committed to free speech and to academic freedom, believing that our foundational purpose as a university, is to create spaces where a wide range of ideas, including ideas that are controversial, can be discussed and debated, and where members of our community can express lawful views without fear of intimidation, harassment or discrimination.

When engaging in the robust exchange of ideas, we ask that our community is mindful of our Dignity at King’s guidance.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the person specification section of the job description. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

We reserve the right to close adverts early due to the volume of applications we receive. While the closing date may change, all adverts will close at 23:59 to allow sufficient time for applications to be submitted on that day.

We encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment as once we have closed a vacancy you will be unable to submit your application.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.

This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service and Occupational Health clearances.