Job summary
Junior Clinical Fellows Advertisement
Applicants are invited to apply for a Junior Clinical Fellow in Trauma & Orthopaedics in Frimley Health;
This opportunity is at the Wexham Park and Heatherwood Hospital sites for 6 months to start as soon as possible
Main duties of the job
The successful candidates will be responsible for daily management and review of inpatient care for patients admitted to the Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgical wards in Wexham Park Hospital.
Junior Training Fellows will be on an average 1:3 on-call long day with no nights or weekends and will be exposed to many opportunities in the operating theatre in elective, emergency, and day case procedures.
About us
There's never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country's largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you'll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Participate in morning trauma meeting and (when on-call) evening handover.
- On ward cover, arrive at 07:45 for handover and a morning ward round of all patients, ensuring the action plan from the handover is carried out and that there is proper daily documentation in the notes and adherence to VTE and MRSA prophylaxis protocols. Answer all ward calls and attend as required. Maintain an updated inpatient list.
- On theatre days, carry out preoperative patient review with your team and assist with surgery, documentation and ensure the postoperative plan is followed. Review your postoperative patients that are staying overnight.
- You will be supernumerary in outpatient clinics for your education purposes but may be asked to assist with documentation or requesting investigations.
- When on-call, take A&E and external referrals and those from other departments, review them and formulate a management plan with senior input. Maintain an updated patient database.
- When not on ward cover, oversee management of your consultants inpatients (delegating tasks to ward cover). Discharge summaries should be released on the day of discharge by the ward cover but may be prepared in advance by the patients own team.
- Complete the morbidity and mortality presentation of your allocated consultant in the monthly academic half-day meeting.
- Comply at all times with the Trusts dress code.
- Observe Trust policy on prevention of infection including hand washing and remaining bare below the elbows in all patient areas.
- Take responsibility for your continuing professional development and attend Trust essential training, any clinical updates, and Trust Academic Half Days as appropriate.
- Undergo an annual appraisal as part of maintaining medical registration as required for Revalidation.
- Participate in the departmental teaching rota, journal club and grand rounds.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Participate in morning trauma meeting and (when on-call) evening handover.
- On ward cover, arrive at 07:45 for handover and a morning ward round of all patients, ensuring the action plan from the handover is carried out and that there is proper daily documentation in the notes and adherence to VTE and MRSA prophylaxis protocols. Answer all ward calls and attend as required. Maintain an updated inpatient list.
- On theatre days, carry out preoperative patient review with your team and assist with surgery, documentation and ensure the postoperative plan is followed. Review your postoperative patients that are staying overnight.
- You will be supernumerary in outpatient clinics for your education purposes but may be asked to assist with documentation or requesting investigations.
- When on-call, take A&E and external referrals and those from other departments, review them and formulate a management plan with senior input. Maintain an updated patient database.
- When not on ward cover, oversee management of your consultants inpatients (delegating tasks to ward cover). Discharge summaries should be released on the day of discharge by the ward cover but may be prepared in advance by the patients own team.
- Complete the morbidity and mortality presentation of your allocated consultant in the monthly academic half-day meeting.
- Comply at all times with the Trusts dress code.
- Observe Trust policy on prevention of infection including hand washing and remaining bare below the elbows in all patient areas.
- Take responsibility for your continuing professional development and attend Trust essential training, any clinical updates, and Trust Academic Half Days as appropriate.
- Undergo an annual appraisal as part of maintaining medical registration as required for Revalidation.
- Participate in the departmental teaching rota, journal club and grand rounds.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GMC registration
- MRCS
- Previous experience in Trauma & Orthopaedics Surgery
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GMC registration
- MRCS
- Previous experience in Trauma & Orthopaedics Surgery
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
