Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here.
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job Overview
Trust Doctor Clinical Fellow (ST1/2) in Paediatric Emergency Medicine
Applications are invited for a full time Clinical Fellow Paediatrician based in the Paediatric Emergency Department at University Hospital Lewisham. These posts also involve overnight shifts and late shifts.
The post would be suitable for a Paediatric Trainee SHO level and above, or an Emergency Medicine trainee with a minimum of 6 months experience working in a Paediatric A&E Department. The successful individual will be contracted from 03 March 2025 to 31 August 2025 with the possibility of a contract extension thereafter, within Paediatrics.
Main Duties of the Job
These posts are an ideal opportunity for a suitably qualified individual looking to develop skills within a busy paediatric emergency medicine department. The positions will also allow the candidate to continue to meet their training and education objectives within their clinical responsibilities.
The candidate would take part in the Paediatric A&E rota.
Working for Our Organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivating a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development.
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability.
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability.
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development.
5. Making equalities mainstream.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Eight juniors are allocated to this area, working a full shift system. At any one time, three will be from the GP training scheme, and one will be a clinical fellow. Applications are welcomed from A&E, surgical or GP trainees as well as paediatricians (please see person specifications at end of document). Study leave / annual leave is incorporated into the shift system.
The staff sees all children triaged by the paediatric A&E nursing staff; some children may be sent to the adjoining Primary Care Suite, otherwise the trainees are exposed to the full range of acute paediatric medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, ENT etc. In daytime hours, there is always a Paediatric A&E consultant on-site, and out of hours the main support is from the resident Paediatric, Surgical, Adult A&E and Orthopaedic registrars.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential Criteria
* MBBS or equivalent medical qualifications.
* Full current GMC registration.
Desirable Criteria
* MRCPCH.
Training and Experience
Essential Criteria
* F1 Year and previous F2/SHO experience.
* Significant previous substantive NHS service.
* Evidence of participation in teaching and audit.
* Appropriate level of knowledge in Medicine.
* Ability to use Library and Databases.
Desirable Criteria
* Either previous A&E, General Practice or Paediatric experience.
Clinical Skills/Knowledge
Essential Criteria
* Competent to work without direct supervision where appropriate, according to level of experience.
* Sound note keeping skills.
* Sound manual dexterity and competent in routine practical procedures as expected for experience.
Career Progression
Essential Criteria
* Appropriate progression of career to date.
Organisation and Planning
Essential Criteria
* Ability to organize oneself, to manage time and tasks and prioritise clinical need within limitations of experience.
* Experience and ability to work in multi-professional teams.
Administration
Essential Criteria
* Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit.
Desirable Criteria
* Evidence of participation in audit project.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.
Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
Applicant Requirements
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.
Documents to Download
* Paediatric ED Clinical Fellow (PDF, 766.2KB)
* Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)
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