Senior Clinical Fellow in Dermatology

Job overview

Applications are invited for a Fixed term Senior Clinical Fellow post in the Dermatology Department at NNUHFT and Cromer Hospital. This is a full time post, to start as soon as possible. It will involve general dermatology, skin lesion/cancer clinics, minor surgery/ daycase list, and an opportunity to train within Dermatology.

This post is designed for a doctor looking to gain further experience and a career in dermatology. Applicants will be encouraged to register for eportfolio and to undertake work based assessment in line with those done by StRs and we also support training via the CESR route. This is a non-training post, and therefore the successful applicant must be fully registered with the GMC.

The post is for 6 months, with the possibility of extension.

This post is based at the NNUHFT and Cromer Hospital.

Main duties of the job

The post involves 10 sessions of which 6-7 will be outpatient clinics.

These clinics vary from general dermatology, skin cancer clinics, minor surgery and specialist clinics. Dermatology does not have dedicated inpatient beds but dermatology patients may be on other wards.

The duties of the Clinical Fellow post also include working with the Core trainees in looking after inpatients. The clinical fellows are on regular on call rota along with the ST3+ resident doctors (once a week frequency usually) holding the emergency bleep between 8am-7pm (weekdays/ bank holidays) and non-residential on call over weekends (Saturday and Sunday), dealing with calls from GPs, ward patients and A&E.

The Dermatology department is also involved in the teaching of the undergraduate medical students for the University of East Anglia. Duties of the clinical fellow include teaching of medical students at the bedside and as part of seminars. Helping with the organisation of the student timetable and teaching sessions is also expected.

The clinical fellow will be expected to attend the weekly skin MDT meeting in which the management of patients with skin cancer is discussed. There are opportunities to attend the combined clinics in which interesting and complicated patients are discussed with the other dermatologists in the region and a dermatopathologist. There are also opportunities for the clinical fellow to attend dermatopathology teaching as well as hospital clinical meetings.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For informal enquiries please contact Dr Abby Macbeth, Service Director for Dermatology on 01603 288254.