Junior Clinical Fellow in Paediatric Neuroscience

Job overview

This is a post within the Department of Paediatrics and Paediatric Neurosurgery at St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust, London.  The post holder will be expected to provide inpatient services on the paediatric surgical and neurosciences ward, working with children admitted electively and acutely for neurosurgical and neurology tertiary services, with occasional cover on medical wards.

To provide expert assistance to the Consultant Neurosurgeons, Paediatric Neurologists, Consultant Paediatricians and Specialist Registrars in the provision of a high quality service to patients in Neurosurgery and Neurology Department.  The post holders are expected to participate in all aspects of the patient pathway as appropriate and will be expected to perform delegated duties with a high degree of clinical skill and knowledge, working within the environments of the operating theatres, wards and outpatient clinics.

Main duties of the job

This Neurosciences SHO appointment is primarily to deliver care for paediatric neurosciences inpatients on the surgical ward, Nicholls ward.

Duties will involve daily assessment of the children, participating in neurosurgical and neurology consultant led ward rounds and working with the specialists to arrange investigations and treatment.

There are two other junior trainees at ST1-2 level primarily for surgical inpatients, and some responsibility for ward work will be divided between the team (eg help in prescribing IV fluids and medications) with cover for leave as needed.

The post holder will hand these children over to the paediatric on-call staff at the end of the working day.

There are no on call commitments.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To have responsibility for the Health, Safety and Welfare of self and others and to comply at all times with the requirement of the Health and Safety Regulations.
• To ensure confidentiality at all times, only releasing confidential information obtained during   the course of employment to those acting in an official capacity in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act and its amendments.
• To work in accordance with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities policy to eliminate unlawful discrimination in relation to employment and service delivery.
• To ensure skills are up-to-date and relevant to the role, to follow relevant Trust policies and professional codes and to maintain registration where this is a requirement of the role.
• To comply with St. George’s Healthcare No Smoking Policies.
• To undertake such duties as may be required from time to time as are consistent with the responsibilities of the grade and the needs of the service.