Junior Clinical Fellow

Job overview

These posts are an ideal opportunity for a suitably qualified individual looking to develop skills within a busy paediatric emergency medicine department. The positions will also allow the candidate to continue to meet their training and education objectives within their clinical responsibilities.

The candidate would take part in the Paediatric A&E rota.

Main duties of the job

To share with SpRs responsibility for the day to day running of the dedicated Paediatric Emergency department

To perform Out-patient clinics with consultant supervision ( If an interest is declared)

To continue with developing skills

To continue training and Educational Objectives

Participate in safeguarding meetings and simulation training

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The staff sees all children triaged by the paediatric A&E nursing staff; some children may be sent to the adjoining Primary Care Suite, otherwise the trainees are exposed to the full range of acute paediatric medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, ENT etc. In daytime hours, there is always a Paediatric A&E consultant on-site, and out of hours the main support is from the resident Paediatric, Surgical, Adult A&E and Orthopaedic registrars.

See attached JD