Emergency Department Clinical Fellow (ST3+equivalent )

Job overview

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is now recruiting for Clinical Fellows to work in its emergency departments at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and Horton General Hospital, Banbury. This offers a unique opportunity to work cross-site in a Major Trauma Centre and a district general hospital. The department also has close links with a world-class university that could help to develop you as teacher, mentor or educationalist.

We have significant experience with Portfolio Pathway applications for GMC specialist registration, and can offer secondments, in anaesthetics, intensive care medicine, adult medicine and paediatrics.

We also support a work life balance. We have an annualised rota, self-rostering and 1:3 weekends maximum. There is paid educational development time and a competitive salary. Both the city centre with Oxford spires and the historic university and the glorious countryside is within a close radius of the hospital. There is also easy access and public transport to London, the Cotswolds and the midlands.

This role is not eligible for GMC sponsorship. If this sounds like an opportunity that you would like to explore, then please get in touch. We will be happy to talk in further detail about what OUH can do for you. Come and join our great team!

Main duties of the job

Emergency Medicine Clinical Fellow equivalent to ST3 level or above.

Full time clinical fellows work a full shift rota across both departments, including day shifts, evening shifts, nights and weekend. The majority patients attending OUH EDs are ambulatory, and the majority will be discharged home at the end of their visit. Consequently, clinical fellows will spend much of their time diagnosing and treating ambulatory patients with minor illness and injury. However, clinical fellows will receive exposure to the full range of patients and conditions attending OUH emergency departments, with shifts in resus and paediatric areas.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

DUTIES OF THE POST:

Principal Responsibilities:

In the Emergency Department, the Clinical Fellow will be responsible for the initial assessment and management of unselected acutely ill and injured patients. He/she/they will help to train and supervise more junior doctors (GP trainees and FY2 doctors). He/she/they will assist with clinical administration, for example, checking X-ray reports, corresponding with patients and their general practitioners. He/she/they will have opportunities to participate in the department’s Clinical Governance activities, including departmental audit, and national audits required by the Healthcare Commission. He/she/they will also be expected to attend departmental teaching sessions. He/she/they will be responsible for keeping his/her/their resuscitation training up to date.

The division of responsibilities between sites will be discussed at interview and arrangements made clear in writing prior to appointment. Factors to be considered will be the preferences of the applicant, their training needs and skill sets, and the needs of the service in so far as they can be foreseen.

Work Commitment

As per rota. For full time registrars based at the John Radcliffe:

• 40 hours per week (before subtraction of leave entitlement);
• Approximately three weekends in nine weeks;
• Approximately seven nights in nine weeks;
• Approximately one third to one half of shifts will be worked at the Horton Hospital.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.