Junior Clinical Fellow

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities

1. Together with others to provide Urology services for patients attending Princess Royal University Hospital. This includes all aspects of treatment and relevant management duties required for the proper functioning of the department.

2. Shared responsibility with the others for providing 24 hour, 7 day a week cover for the Urology on an on-call rota basis. Responsible also for covering colleagues periods of annual leave and short-term sickness/absence.

3. Responsible for carrying out teaching undergraduate student, contributing to Continuing Medical Education and clinical governance initiatives.

4. To contribute to departmental research interests in accordance with the Trusts R&D framework.

5. To contribute to the Audit Programme and departmental presentations including the preparation and presentation of morbidity and mortality data.

6. To be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental and food hygiene. To undertake annual training/updates in infection prevention and control.

7. To prepare for and undertake the protective interventions that you are responsible for in a manner that is consistent with evidence based practice and maintaining patient safety.

8. You have a general duty of care for the health, safety and well-being of yourself, work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital in addition to any specific risk management or clinical governance accountabilities associated with this post.

9. You are required to observe the rules, policies, procedures and standards of Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust together with all relevant statutory and professional obligations.

10. You are required to observe and maintain strict confidentiality of personal information relating to patients and staff.

11. You are required to be responsible, with management support, for your own personal development and to actively contribute to the development of colleagues.

12. The post holder has an important responsibility for and contribution to make to infection control and must be familiar with the infection control and hygiene requirements of this role. These requirements are set out in the National Code of Practice on Infection Control and in local policies and procedures which will be made clear during your induction and subsequent refresher training. These standards must be strictly complied with at all times.

13. All employees must hold an nhs.net email account which will be the Trusts formal route for email communication. You are therefore required to check this regularly and to deal with such communication promptly.

Person Specification

Urology Medical Knoweldge

Essential

• Registerable medical qualification
• Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit

Desirable

• Familiar with current structure of Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes
• Experience in Urology

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

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

PRUH

FARNBOUGH COMMON

FARNBOUGH

BR6 8ND

Employer's website

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