Fellowships
Here you will find information on Fellowships in the Innovation and Workforce Diversification team portfolio.
Introduction
NHS Education for Scotland engages with and contributes to a range of Fellowship activity in collaboration with strategic partners. These specific Fellowships inform and shape innovative and progressive workforce planning in Scotland.
Innovation and Entrepreneurial Fellowships
Clinical Artificial Intelligence (Clinical AI)
We work in collaboration with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, to access the fellowship in Clinical Artificial Intelligence (Clinical AI)
Fellows are recruited competitively for this 12-month programme, which is integrated part-time alongside clinical work and supports the clinical workforce to benefit and upskill in this sphere. Whilst the programme is mixed discipline in design, NES will recruit to targeted areas pending available funding streams.
Exciting news: recruitment is now live for cohort four, with entry to this programme in August 2025. NES is funding 3 fellowships, 2 are available for Medicine and 1 for Allied Health Professions.
It is a requirement that those applying can align their application to an existing clinical AI work programme in Scotland. Closing date for applications is 18 December 2024.
The Fellowship scheme will accept applications from HCPC registered Allied Health Professionals, employed in an NHS Scotland Health board, who can align their application to an existing clinical AI work programme.
The NES Medical Directorate welcomes interest for 2 Clinical AI Fellowships from current Doctors in Training who hold a National Training Number and are ST3 / GPST3 and above.
The 2 Fellows will spend 12 months (August 2025- August 2026) working 2 days a week (0.4wte) on an immersive AI deployment project in a multidisciplinary team under expert supervision. A change to less than full time training will need to be agreed with current Training Programme Director and service prior to starting the programme in August 2025. Further skills and knowledge are gained through a bespoke programme of small-group workshops and e-learning resources which is run via the programme
NES is pleased to respond to informal queries prior to applicants’ submission. Informal enquiries will be managed via the NES Innovation team nes.learningandinnovation@nhs.scot
For more details on application visit NHS Fellowship in Clinical AI Cohort 4 Applications (2025-26) | CSC
Clinical Entrepreneurship Programme (CEP) and Chief Scientist Office (CSO)
NES collaborates with a range of partners in Scotland to support candidates on the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme. The Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre (DHI) facilitates coordination of the Scotland cohort, working with NES, InnoScot Health, the Chief Scientist Office and Scottish Enterprise.
Chief Scientist Office (CSO) delivers a range of fellowships. The Innovation and Workforce Diversification workstream engages with the Innovation Academic Fellowship, promoting the opportunity. The engagement adds coherence across the innovation landscape focusing on what this means for the system and future skills need. NES plays an active part in recruitment and selection of fellows, supports development sessions and contributes to connectedness with fellows.