Main area: Medicine
Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
Contract: 12 months (Fixed term)
Hours: Full time - 40 hours per week
Job ref: 411-MED-25-6967123
Employer: Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Alder Hey Children's Hospital
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £61,825 - £70,425 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/04/2025 23:59
Senior Clinical Fellow
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites. Our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at various locations. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites and are a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to medical and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust. Our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trust's values and behaviours. We appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
* Great flexible working opportunities
* Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
This is a full time (10 PA’s) post in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine.
Start date: June 2025 (other start dates by negotiation).
We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated individual for this post within the Paediatric Respiratory Medicine team at Alder Hey Hospital which will provide specialist respiratory training. Along with other team members, you will provide both secondary and tertiary respiratory care to children within the region. The post would suit trainees wishing to expand their knowledge of paediatric respiratory medicine either pre or post CCT.
This is a full-time (40 hours), fixed-term post working within the Respiratory Team at Alder Hey Hospital. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to increase their knowledge of tertiary respiratory medicine and improve upon practical skills such as paediatric bronchoscopy. The role will be predominantly providing out-patient care to patients with simple and complex respiratory disorders and working within the newly created multidisciplinary asthma service. The role will not involve general paediatrics and there is no on-call commitment. This post does not have educational approval from the Mersey Post-Graduate Deanery for speciality registrar training.
Consideration will be given to applicants who wish to work full or part time and those wishing to job share.
Main duties of the job
The main responsibilities of the clinical fellow are to work within the team providing outpatient management to children with respiratory disorders, both general respiratory and complex respiratory disorders.
The out-patient duties will comprise of 4 clinics each week, and dedicated time will be given for clinic preparation and administration. The clinical fellow will contribute to consultant led clinics in a supervised capacity and also contribute to the weekly SpR led clinic. Clinics will include general respiratory medicine where both secondary and tertiary level patients are seen and sleep/long-term ventilation clinics. The fellow will also have the opportunity to attend specialist clinics where respiratory complications arising from various disorders are reviewed and managed.
The majority of the children who are under our care are admitted to the medical specialities ward. However, many children are admitted to other wards including the general medical ward, High Dependency, and Intensive Care Units. Our team provides the regional flexible bronchoscopy service for children.
Working for our organisation
As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our newly opened state of the art facility.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical
The main responsibilities of the clinical fellow are to work within the team providing outpatient management to children with respiratory disorders. There will also be some work managing in-patients along with the middle-grade trainees and specialty doctors.
The out-patient duties will comprise of 4 clinics each week, and dedicated time will be given for clinic preparation and administration. The clinical fellow will contribute to consultant led clinics in a supervised capacity and also contribute to the weekly SpR led clinic.
The Clinical Fellow will:
* share duties with the other respiratory registrars in reviewing and guiding management in these children and communicating with their families and other involved clinicians.
* provide an initial assessment of new respiratory referrals from other specialist services.
* assist with co-ordination of bronchoscopy list and have the opportunity to train in bronchoscopy technique if appropriate.
The in-patient responsibilities include supervision of the more junior doctors in maintaining safe and effective care for children.
Person specification
* Full Registration and licence to practice with GMC (or eligibility for)
* Demonstrable experience at either: ST4 and above
* Written communication skills in English and the ability to explain clinical procedures to patients
* Ability to build effective relationships and work collaboratively with staff at all levels
* Demonstrate evidence of ongoing commitment to personal and professional development
* Demonstrate an interest in research
We reserve the right to close vacancies without notice when we have received a sufficient number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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