Senior Clinical Fellow ST4-5 in Emergency Medicine

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust; Worcester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

This is a post based at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital, providing experience in a clinical specialty with opportunities for involvement in teaching, simulation and management experience.

The post is suitable for trainees whose career would be advanced by the opportunity to develop clinical skills along with teaching or management skills. It is designed for clinicians with three or more years of experience post full registration that have worked in an acute speciality or taken part in the ACCS programme. It might be of interest to registered practitioners who are studying for a higher qualification, writing up research, or applying for higher specialist training rotations, or any combination of these. It may also appeal to higher trainees who wish to take time out of a training programme, subject to the approval of the appropriate Specialist Training Committee.

Each full time post attracts a 40 hour contract: the post holder will have 32 hours for clinical responsibilities and 8 hours per week for Education related activities.

The successful applicant will form part of the ED Middle Grade rota, this an eighteen week rolling rota as detailed below. There is teaching for Middle Grades on Wednesdays during term time to mirror the teaching sessions ST4 and above EM trainees attend. All doctors have named Educational and Clinical Supervisors.

Main duties of the job

• Participating fully in all the educational activities of the department
• Assisting the Consultants in the day-to-day clinical care of the ED patients
• Managing the resuscitation room cases including leading the trauma and cardiac arrest teams
• Co-ordinating, supervising and supporting the junior medical staff
• Participating in the Clinical Audit programme and the quality control of the department
• Support the Trust in the delivery of a high standard of care and meeting Trust and departmental objectives by timely service and quality led clinical care.
• Comply with relevant trust policies including those relating to data protection
• Actively pursue professional development maintaining a portfolio of evidence so that you are able to participate satisfactorily the appraisal process in accordance with GMC requirements.

About us

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester. Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

• Best services for local people
• Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
• Best use of resources
• Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Participating fully in all the educational activities of the department
• Assisting the Consultants in the day-to-day clinical care of the ED patients
• Managing the resuscitation room cases including leading the trauma and cardiac arrest teams
• Co-ordinating, supervising and supporting the junior medical staff
• Participating in the Clinical Audit programme and the quality control of the department
• Support the Trust in the delivery of a high standard of care and meeting Trust and departmental objectives by timely service and quality led clinical care.
• Comply with relevant trust policies including those relating to data protection
• Actively pursue professional development maintaining a portfolio of evidence so that you are able to participate satisfactorily the appraisal process in accordance with GMC requirements.

Person Specification

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Diplomatic and tactful
• Flexible approach to work duties
• Ability to work in a team
• Ability to work under pressure
• Enquiring, critical approach to work
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies
• Willingness to participate in a multi-disciplinary team environment to provide an integrated service
• Ability to organise and manage workload priorities

Desirable

• Interest in research in medical education
• Evidence of innovation
• Understands self (strengths and weaknesses) and impact of behaviour on others
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Experience

Essential

• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required at ST3+ grades and resuscitation of trauma cases
• At least 1 years experience in Emergency Medicine
• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of problems both emergency elective within speciality
• Ability to be the clinician in charge of the department at night and to offer support and leadership to more junior members of the team
• Confidence in leading cardiac arrests and resuscitation of trauma cases

Desirable

• Experience of Audit
• Ability to practice evidence-based medicine

Qualifications

Essential

• Eligible for full GMC registration with Licence to Practise at the time of appointment
• MB ChB, MBBS or equivalent
• MRCEM or first part of FRCEM
• ALS certification- if expired, to re-certify within 4 months
• ALS Provider

Desirable

• Postgraduate qualification

Teaching Experience

Essential

• Experience of medical teaching
• Knowledge of Audit principles and evidence of participation in and completion of audit projects

Desirable

• Attendance at recognised management courses
• Critical Appraisal Skills
• Knowledge of Audit principles and evidence of participation in and completion of audit projects

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