Junior Clinical Fellow in Enhanced Medical Care

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for an FY3/4 post within the Department of Medicine at The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust. Tenure will be for 12 months. The post holder will work in the Medical Enhanced Care Unit (MECU) on normal working days with weekend daytime cover 9am to 5pm and 1 in 4 weekday long days which are 9am-9.30pm. No night on calls is rotated into this post.

Remuneration for the post would be in line with national terms and conditions of service. Russell’s Hall Hospital is a 764 bedded District General Hospital with a large Acute medicine and Specialty medicine with 123 medical consultants The hospital is a teaching hospital linked to the University of Birmingham and the Department has an excellent reputation for training.  Our department regularly appears in the top 3 of the Deanery’s undergraduate feedback table for training received and our postgraduate exam pass rate is usually exceptionally high. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to benefit from this established training program, as well as develop their portfolio of skills.

Main duties of the job

• Normal working day consists of clinical duties from 09:00am to 17:00pm including 1 in 4 weekends and 1 in 4 weekday long days which are 9am-9.30pm.
• Undertake clinical work in Medical Enhanced care Unit and participate on the General Internal Medicine on call rota.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues to further develop and improve the service.
• Post holder will be part of the EWTD complaint rota. The rota has prospective cover included and therefore it is expected that doctors will cover each other, in respect of annual, study leave and bank holidays, without additional pay.
• This job description may be reviewed from time to time in light of developments and may be amended in consultation with post holder. These are subject to change, as required by the needs of the service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake.