Senior Clinical Fellow - Acute Medicine

Target employment start date August 2025.

This job is 2 days a week in Medical SDEC and 1 day on the Acute Medical Unit. There is an expectation for 1 day a week of evening working on a Thursday. There is no on call commitment; if the post holder requires registrar on call experience, this can be discussed at interview and may be able to be accommodated.

Main duties of the job

Clinical duties and responsibilities: Acute Medicine

- Clinical assessment and management of the whole range of patients across acute medicine.
- Perform ward rounds with junior support on AMU.
- Manage high acuity patients in ECU.
- Independently manage patients with on-site consultant supervision.

Clinical duties and responsibilities: SDEC

- Clinical assessment and management of the whole range of patients presenting to SDEC.
- Support more junior trainees/PAs/ACPs.
- Make independent discharge decisions and follow-up arrangements.
- Manage the majority of SDEC patients independently, with consultant support for more complex cases.

About us

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire, and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialties. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.

North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.

There are approximately 70-100 Acute Medical attendances per day from both Primary Care and the Emergency Department.

There are 58 beds across the AMU, including 12 telemetry beds and 8 ECU beds delivering ECU-level care with continuous cardiac monitoring, high flow oxygen, and non-invasive ventilation.

The Acute Medical Team also runs the medical SDEC service, which is open 8am-8pm Monday to Friday and 10am-6pm on weekends. Approximately 30 patients a day are managed through SDEC.

Job description
Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description for main responsibilities of this post. There will be clinical duties, an element of teaching, governance, leadership, and teamwork requirement.

Person Specification
Education/Training/Qualifications
Essential

• Full GMC registration
• Advanced Life Support Certification
• Completed at least four years full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time or flexible basis), at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee in a relevant specialty or equivalent experience and competencies.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD), including regular attendance on internal and external study programmes.

Desirable

• Acute Medicine SCE

Work Experience
Essential

• Experience and interest in teaching of staff, both undergraduate and postgraduate and from all disciplines.
• Evidence of clinical audit (quality assessment/process improvement) experience.
• Relevant publication in scientific journals, presentation at local/national conferences.
• Being a medical registrar on call or equivalent and running an acute unselected medical take with consultant supervision.
• Making independent treatment and management decisions including escalation and liaising with intensive care.

Desirable

• Experience and knowledge of common infectious diseases and management.

Personal Qualities/Special Circumstances
Essential

• Demonstrates values and behaviours consistent with the NHS Leadership Academy Healthcare Leadership Model.
• Willing to challenge and adopt an inquiring and proactive approach to learning.
• Demonstrates initiative.
• Enthusiastic and inquiring approach to work.

Employer details
Employer name

North Bristol NHS Trust

Address

Southmead Hospital

Southmead Road

Bristol

BS10 5NB

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