Junior Clinical Fellow - Same Day Emergency Care

Job description

Job responsibilities

General Characteristics of the post

The post is full-time and is essentially within the Same Day Emergency Care Unit at QEH for the contract duration, with potential to rotate to the Emergency Department if the service needs allow.

Rota pending, applicants who perform satisfactorilymay be given a further period of 12 months within the Same Day Emergency Care and Emergency Department.

The successful applicant will work in a EWTD compliant rota, working shifts across 7 days including days, weekends and bank holidays.

The QEH site opened in March 2001. Although still fairly new, rising demand has meant that we are looking at way to expand and redevelop the department. The ED at QEH is amongst one busiest in London, seeing in excess of 160,000 new patients annually.The SDEC Unit is for those patients who can be seen, treated and discharged on the same day as arrival to hospital. The workload provides an opportunity to see a wide variety of acute medical and surgical problems.

Training Opportunities

The hospital site has excellent educations facilities and libraries with many major journals, Medline, computerised library research, internet and intranet. There is excellent audio-visual equipment in the hospital education centre.

Although this is not a recognised training post, the post holder will be required to participate in education and teaching activities on the unit.

There is an ED training programme held at the hospital. This constitutes a large investment in training facilitating each doctor to acquire the knowledge and skills required in Emergency Medicine. This training will include lecture-room teaching, clinical supervision, attendances at relevant courses, and simulation sessions. Special focus is given towards the passing of the Membership of the College of Emergency Medicine examinations (MCEM)

Annual Leave

Annual leave entitlement is 27 days per annum.

Study Leave

Study leave and funding is discretionary and not a right. It is discretionary to your requirements and service provision subject to departmental approval. The entitlement is 10 days per annum or pro rata for less than 12-month fixed term contracts. The course must be relevant to professional development and maintaining revalidation. Mandatory training must be up to date to be eligible.

GMC registration and licence to Practice is a condition of appointment and the onus is on the employee to maintain registration.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Medical Degree
• Full Registration with GMC with license to practice

Desirable

• Relevant parts of post-graduate diplomas (eg MCEM part A etc)
• ATLS, ALS, PALS

Physical Requirements

Essential

• New work permit rules apply to this post

Administration

Essential

• Familiar with current structure of health service and knowledgeable about recent initiatives and changes

Experience

Essential

• 2 years post qualification work in acute or Emergency Specialities
• Clinical attachment or other post in the NHS

Desirable

• Ability to supervise others
• Relevant procedural skills

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Aware of own limitations and when to ask for help
• Ability to prioritise tasks and show effective time management
• Enthusiastic learner with good time keeping, reliable

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Address

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Stadium Road

Woolwich

SE18 4QH

Employer's website

https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)