Junior Clinical Fellow

Job overview

Join us for a career and portfolio boosting opportunity

We are offering one Anaesthetic Junior Clinical Fellow job at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, commencing August 2025. This is a fixed term post, initially for 6 months, with the possible opportunity to extend. Applicants should have full GMC registration and a minimum of three years of experience practising Anaesthesia.

The post is ideally suited to those who are between Core and Specialty (Stage 1 and Stage 2) training in Anaesthesia, including those who have yet to pass the Primary FRCA. More broadly, any experienced Anaesthetist seeking further clinical exposure and portfolio-boosting opportunities in preparation for entering Specialty Training at ST4+ level is encouraged to apply.

The successful applicant will join a busy, supportive department, providing anaesthesia for a broad range of specialties, and will participate in rotas covering Anaesthesia, Enhanced Perioperative Care (EPOC), Obstetrics and Critical Care (these may be undertaken in blocks).

Please note, this post is aligned to Trust specific pay scales and terms and conditions of service and is not linked to the 2016 doctors in training terms and conditions of service and pay scales.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be expected to:

• Support the delivery of a high quality 24-hour Anaesthetic service, including participation in out of hours rotas, covering EPOC (Enhanced Perioperative Care unit), Obstetrics and Critical Care, in addition to General (Anaesthesia) duties.
• To work flexibly when required and depending upon demand.

To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification documents.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical duties will include those normally expected of an Anaesthetic CT3+. During the daytime, this will involve theatre work; out of hours, duties will include obstetrics and/or junior emergency anaesthetic cover +/- ICM if circumstances require.

Consultant cover is provided at all times, being non-resident overnight. At QMC, Consultant Anaesthetists are resident throughout all daytime and twilight sessions, 7 days a week, supporting the emergency workload.

The successful candidate will be responsible to a named Consultant within the senior management team, and have a named Educational Supervisor. They will be required to:

• participate in the delivery of a high quality 24-hour service including participation in the resident Out of Hours rota, covering a mixture of Anaesthetics, EPOC, Critical Care and Obstetric Anaesthesia. Daytime sessions will be within Anaesthetics.
• provide internal cover for colleagues on leave, which is included in the current banding allocation of this post. In exceptional circumstances and for short periods only, Clinical Fellows may be requested to provide additional cover, for example, to cover sickness. Locums may also be employed in this instance. The rota is EWTD compliant with appropriate level of banding for anti-social hours.
• work flexibly, maintain a logbook and portfolio, engage with supervision, undergo medical appraisal and to develop a learning plan/PDP.
• comply with management arrangements in place, to follow the guidelines on practice laid down by the General Medical Council’s “Maintaining Good Medical Practice”, and to be accountable to the Trust for their actions and the quality of their work.
• comply with Trust Health and Safety policies, fulfil mandatory training requirements and maintain a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors and staff.
• have knowledge of and employ the basic principles of infection control practice.
• maintain effective working relationships with anaesthetic, nursing, operating department, critical care, midwifery and surgical colleagues

Please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification for key duties and responsibilities.