Senior Clinical Fellow / Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine

Job summary

We are looking for enthusiastic middle grade doctors (ST4+ level) who are keen to develop their career in Emergency Medicine with us, being supported by a team who is proud of our educational culture.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Emergency Department which soon will incorporate a newly built state of the art Emergency Receiving Area within the Greater Manchester Major Trauma Centre.

You will join our team as a Senior Clinical Fellow with 80% clinical time, spent on the upper grade rota, and 20% non-clinical time to undertake an additional role in your choice of area of interest, whether it be education, quality improvement, research and/or trauma. You will be granted a study budget to support this.

The ideal candidate should be making good progress towards completing their MRCEM examinations and already be working at ST3+ level in Emergency Medicine.

Our Emergency Department receives more than 100,000 type 1 patients per annum, of whom approximately 1,200 are received as major trauma calls for those triggering prehospital major trauma activation in the Greater Manchester and surrounding areas. A high proportion of these major trauma patients have elevated Injury Severity Score, requiring critical care admission.

We are also home to the Manchester Centre for Clinical Neurosciences and the Geoffrey Jefferson Brain Research Centre.

Main duties of the job

You will work at a level equivalent to ST4+ and share the rota with our current Specialty Registrars and Senior Clinical Fellows in Emergency Medicine. Initially you will be supernumerary (depending on experience), after which you will join the self-rostering full shift pattern upper grade (Registrar level) rota.

The successful candidate will join our dynamic and enthusiastic multidisciplinary team of medical staff, trainees, nursing, and allied health professionals, and will be given responsibilities for patient care commensurate with their level of experience and training.

We support senior clinical fellows in obtaining the training and secondments required to successfully complete all aspects of the Portfolio Pathway (previously known as CESR). The department has a CESR lead and two RCEM CESR assessors. We are in the process of setting up a more formal CESR programme in our department for fellows who wish to pursue this route.

At the core of our outstanding reputation is an emphasis on sustainability and flexible working. We recognise that a good work-life balance is of paramount importance in developing a rewarding career.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/