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How do you apply to become a fellow?
Candidates may submit an application for a place on the scheme during the recruitment process each year. Shortlisted candidates are interviewed, and successful applicants take up a fellowship role for 12 months, starting in September 2026. Fixed term appointments and secondments are available.
(Secondments are at the discretion of applicants’ substantive organisations and approval from substantive HR, finance and clinical directors should be sought alongside applications. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure they have the relevant permissions by application or interview stage).
Clinical Fellows have the opportunity to access a discounted membership or fellowship from FMLM during the scheme and upon graduation.
Please note: The application form is open for 4 weeks for candidates to apply.
About the FMLM Central Scheme
We are excited to launch our new Multidisciplinary Leadership and Management Clinical Fellowship, designed for registered clinicians from all disciplines who are ready to take the next step in their leadership journey. This scheme welcomes doctors, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, practitioner psychologists, biomedical scientists, physician associates, anaesthesia associates, and other registered clinicians who have completed at least 12 months of post-registration clinical practice. Fellows should be working at an intermediate (team or organisational) development level, with doctors eligible if they have not held a consultant post and have less than five years’ experience as a qualified General Practitioner. Participants will benefit from the same comprehensive learning, development opportunities, and support offered in our established professional schemes, enabling them to enhance their leadership capabilities and impact across healthcare teams and services.
What are the benefits of becoming a Clinical Fellow?
Successful candidates gain:
- A range of skills including leadership and management, policy development, project management, research and analysis.
- Supported leadership and personal development.
- The opportunity to lead key national projects which contribute to national healthcare priorities.
- Access to professional networks across oral health and healthcare at all levels.
- A highly developed understanding of healthcare policy and application.
- The skills to lead positive change.
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Enhanced capabilities in developing and working with teams and supporting others in developing their own personal insight and effectiveness.
What are the learning aims of the role?
Practice-oriented, evidence-based, theory-informed
To develop clinical fellows’ leadership and management knowledge and skills through experiential learning, supported by relevant evidence, concepts and theories, so that they can ‘make a difference’ to healthcare delivery and advance their individual capability.
- To achieve a deeper insight into personal behaviours, leadership style and impact on others.
- To enhance emotional and social intelligence.
- To nurture and encourage personal agency.
- To enhance effectiveness as reflective practitioners.
Interprofessional and UK-wide
- To achieve a greater understanding of the wider context in which leaders operate across the healthcare system.
- To bring clinical fellows from different schemes and professions together to work and learn from one another.
- To support clinical fellows to work more effectively with colleagues in delivering and improving services for patients.
Co-creative and collaborative
- To provide opportunities for co-creation and collaboration on system, service, quality improvement and professional development.
- To support clinical fellows’ wellbeing and resilience.
- To gain insights into the challenges of and ways to lead through complexity.
- To develop a greater understanding of team-working and system leadership.