Main area Clinical Fellow - Paediatrics Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Junior Clinical Fellow Contract 6 months (Fixed Term) Hours Full time - 40 hours per week (To include on-calls, weekends and nights) Job ref 179-6881648-MSJ
Employer West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site West Suffolk Hospital Town Bury St Edmunds Salary £61,825 Pro Rata Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 30/01/2025 23:59
Clinical Fellow - Paediatrics
NHS Medical & Dental: Junior Clinical Fellow
Job overview
Successful candidates will join a dynamic acute workforce treating a wide spectrum of emergency and acute paediatric medicine presentations. This is a great opportunity to broaden your experience while working in a friendly and supportive environment.
There is a strong training culture incorporating lecture-room teaching and clinical supervision, opportunities to attend relevant clinics and courses, and full immersion simulation sessions. The post holders will work up to 48 hours per week (including night shifts and weekend duties).
As well as providing an excellent foundation in general paediatrics, the post provides an opportunity to broaden outpatient skills with visiting consultants in neurology, endocrinology and urology from Addenbrookes and cardiology from London.
Main duties of the job
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
1. The Paediatric department is run as a team and the clinical fellow will be responsible for the patients of all consultants. The main duties will be on the Children’s Assessment Unit, Paediatric General ward (Rainbow) and the Neonatal unit. This will include assessment of unwell children on CAU, Emergency department and conducting ward rounds on Paediatric ward and NNU, attending at risk deliveries in delivery suite and supporting and supervising Tier 1 doctors.
2. The post holder will work in the middle grade rota (Tier 2) 1:6 including evenings and weekends.
3. There will be opportunities to do general clinics under supervision.
4. Within the Paediatric department at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, the middle grade doctors will be able to undertake general paediatric training, subspecialist training with opportunities to gain extra experience in diabetes, allergy, respiratory disease, neurology. Neonatal training will continue through the post.
Working for our organisation
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The CAU and Rainbow ward is a bright and cheerful environment for children, parents and staff alike. The unit comprises a 9 bed Children’s ward with isolation cubicles linked to a Children’s Short Stay Assessment and Observation Unit (CAU) with 6 beds and cubicles. The beds are used flexibly to accommodate paediatric medical and surgical patients. There is an HDU room, to allow intensive monitoring of children. The department aims to provide comprehensive care for all patients under the age of 16 years but liaises closely and transfers, when appropriate, to Addenbrooke’s Hospital those patients who require regional services.
There is a twelve cot Neonatal Unit (NNU) with two fully equipped intensive care costs. The NNU has been upgraded and re-equipped to provide a more efficient and comfortable working environment. The number of deliveries at the West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust continues to rise and is currently around 2,629 per year.
Person specification
Qualifications
1. MBBS
2. MRCPCH Part 1
3. Full, current GMC registration with a licence to practise
4. NLS and APLS Certificate
5. MRCPCH part 2
Clinical experience
1. Appropriate experience in Paediatrics & Neonates to be working on the middle grade rota.
2. Tertiary level neonates at ST1/2/3 level
Management and administration
1. Supervision of ST1/ST2 level when admitting acute paediatric & neonatal emergencies
2. Ability to manage full spectrum paediatric & neonatal emergencies.
3. Lumbar puncture
4. Insertion of UAC, UVC and long lines
5. Communication skills – to be clear, fluent and articulate in communication in English.
Teaching experience
1. Committed and strongly motivated.
Research
1. Flexibility of approach to duties
2. Willingness to learn new skills and to undertake new duties.
3. Ability to deal with stress of supervising acute emergency take.
Personal Skills and Qualities
1. Willingness to participate in unit audit programme.
2. The ability to communicate with clarity and intelligibility in written and spoken English; ability to build rapport, listen, persuade, negotiate.
3. Ability to travel to all rural locations to carry out the post.
4. Willingness to assist in routine firm management e.g. study leave, rotas etc.
Standards
1. To have a thorough knowledge and demonstrable understanding of “Good Medical Practice” from the GMC.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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