Senior Clinical Fellow in Acute Medicine

Job overview

The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital is looking to recruit highly motivated Senior Clinical Fellows (STR3+ Equivalent) based in Acute Medicine to join our team. This role is ideally suited for post-ACCS trainees or post-IMT Year 3 trainees wanting a “year out” prior to Higher Specialist Training but these roles can be suitable for Medical Training Initiative Fellows. This is a great opportunity to work with a dynamic and pleasantly busy team with engaged and highly motivated Consultants and trainees. This post is a full shift rolling European Working Time Directive compliant rota and is available for a fixed term period of 12 months.

All our Clinical Fellow posts are designed to enable the post-holder to start to develop and consolidate middle grade acute medicine knowledge, skills, attributes and responsibilities in the well-supported environment of Acute Medicine. The post holder will do this by assessing and managing patients in the Emergency Department, Acute Medicine Unit and Same Day Emergency Care alongside a dedicated team of Junior Medical Staff, Advanced Care Practitioners, Physician Associates, Pharmacists, Nurses, Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists. The candidate will be expected to be able to manage the acute out-of-hours medical take and support junior trainees in addition to leading cardiac arrest management whilst on-call and support the out-of-hours stroke thrombolysis service.

A minimum of 12 months NHS experience is essential.

Main duties of the job

The appointment is to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital Trust, not to specific hospitals. All candidates, including the appointee, will be expected to be involved in implementing the Trust’s Clinical Governance programme. This includes active participation in clinical audit, quality, clinical guidelines/pathways, professional development, appraisal and risk management.

Within Acute Medicine

• To develop specialist skills in the acute assessment, investigation, diagnosis and management of patients
• To stabilise and manage patients with medical emergencies
• To develop skills in the provision of Same Day Emergency Car

Clinical Governance

• Be proactive in the Clinical Governance agenda for the department. This includes participation in audit and quality improvement projects, guidelines/pathways, professional development, appraisal and risk management as well as attending Clinical Governance meetings
• Attend Directorate meetings to contribute to the development of the service

Personal Development

• Maintain the Trusts PRIDE Values
• Participate in Continuing Professional Development and Educational Supervision meetings
• To undergo regular revalidation as set out by the GMC

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for the full details of the post and the person specification.

Full MRCP and Full GMC with licence to practise required on application.