Job Description

The Community Based Medical Education (CBME) team seeks to appoint Tutors to deliver Clinical Debrief small group teaching in Year 3 of the MBChB programme.


These posts are suitable for a GP keen to gain experience in academic work and Medical Education.


The MBChB programme is an integrated curriculum with Years 1 and 2 delivering the basic sciences that underpin the foundations of medicine and including Early Clinical Experience. Years 3 and 4 emphasise learning through clinical experience. The final year integrates learning from the previous years and prepares students for practice. Students are educated at the University and in NHS facilities across the North West of England and North Wales.


Clinical Debrief Tutors are clinically active GPs who facilitate small-group teaching sessions at the base Teaching Hospitals and Associated Teaching Hospitals, reinforcing experiential learning on placement. Sessions run for 2hrs 15 mins and are held weekly. Students bring cases for discussion from any clinical setting. The tutor facilitates learning using clinical reasoning methods and by stimulating debate. Clinical Debrief also provides a safe environment to discuss experiences from week and the impact of working in a clinical environment. Tutors help students recognise and develop their emerging professional identities, and facilitate discussion and activities which prepare students for placement and practice.


Clinical Debrief facilitation takes place once a week over two semesters, one 14 weeks and one 10 weeks, between October and March. Location, days and times are variable thus appointments are influenced by availability of tutors matching the sessions. Year 3 CD is delivered face-to-face with groups based at the four teaching hospitals and associated DGHs.


ECD tutors will facilitate small group online sessions using the zoom platform. Within a 4-hour window 2 x 90-minute sessions would be delivered to 2 groups of 6 students. The first 3 sessions will take place between October and December. The last session takes place in April/May, after the students have attended their GP placements. The minimum commitment for this role is 16 hours across 4 half days but there are options to increase this commitment if desired. Tutors undertaking this role must be comfortable using zoom and sharing screen.

As part of the application process, applicants will need to send:

A copy of their CV;

A personal statement detailing how they meet the person specification, with particular reference to experience of clinical reasoning and small group teaching;

Please email your CV, lesson outline and personal statement to

clinicaldebrief@manchester.ac.uk

by Monday 23rd June. Applicants will be considered as applications are received, so please don't wait until the last minute to submit.

In your application, please can you rank 1-4 your preferences, the base hospitals where you would like to tutor. Rank 1 as your most preferred choice and 4 as your least preferred choice.

If successful, we will try and match everyone with their most preferred choice, but please note that this is not guaranteed, and we do need to fill all of our tracks.


We will be holding interviews on the following dates in both the morning and the afternoon; on the end of your personal statement, please let us know your preference of date for interview, or if you are unable to attend any of these dates:

Monday 7th July Tuesday 8th July Wednesday 9th July Monday 14th July Tuesday 15th July Wednesday 16th July

If you are successful, you will be required to attend training on

Wednesday 10th Septemb

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for ECD, and

Wednesday 17th September

for CD.

CD vacancies

Please note that sessions will need to be delivered at all locations listed. These will be in person sessions.

Semester 1

Monday AM in Preston


Tuesday PM in Preston


Wednesday AM and PM sessions in MRI Oxford Road (including NGMH, Oldham., Bury, Trafford and Tameside), Salford (including Bury, Bolton, Wigan, Oldham and Rochdale) and Wythenshawe (including Stepping Hill, Leighton, Macclesfield and Christie)


Thursday AM and PM in MRI Oxford Road (including NGMH, Oldham., Bury, Trafford and Tameside), Salford (including Bury, Bolton, Wigan, Oldham and Rochdale) and


Preston

Semester 2

Monday AM and PM in MRI Oxford Road (including NGMH, Oldham., Bury, Trafford and Tameside), Salford (including Bury, Bolton, Wigan, Oldham and Rochdale) and Preston


Tuesday PM in Preston


Wednesday AM in Wythenshawe (including Stepping Hill, Leighton, Macclesfield and Christie)


Thursday PM in Salford (including Bury, Bolton, Wigan, Oldham and Rochdale)


Preston

ECD vacancies

Candidates can apply to do either only ECD teaching, or CD and ECD teaching. The teaching ranges between September and May 2026, as CD does, and occurs from Monday to Friday.


We currently have slots available Monday through Friday, both in AM and PM sessions.


If you are applying for the ECD role, please specify this on your application, and put your availability on the end of your CV or personal statement. This will help us to allocate successful applicants to available sessions.


All sessions are based online, so you will be remote teaching. If you require any further information regarding ECD, please contact Dr. Sarah Merrifield at sarah.merrifield@manchester.ac.uk.