Senior Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine

Job overview

Applications are invited for an enthusiastic, motivated and committed individuals to join our friendly team within the Emergency Department at Colchester Hospital.

Opportunities to gain experience in other specialties such as ITU and/or Anesthetics, Paediatrics, Acute Medicine and Trauma and Orthopedics which allows an opportunity for career progression and the possibility to apply for Pathway Portfolio in Emergency Medicine.

Pay: 12 PAs (of which 1 SPA/week).

The rota offers an excellent work-life balance allowing annual leave spells of up to three weeks. The rota also allows protected weekly teaching sessions and a new journal club is being set up by our FCEM consultants

An allocated mentor within Emergency Medicine as well as a clinical supervisor when on secondment will be provided.

Local opportunities to become ALS and ATLS instructors, as well as full support from all EM consultants to prepare for FCEM are provided.

The rota allows protected weekly teaching sessions and a new journal club is being set up by our FCEM consultants.

Colchester ED is a Major Trauma Unit with a helipad in front of the department and has close links with Emergency Department/Major Trauma Centre at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be clinically responsible to the Consultants for the reception, resuscitation, diagnosis, and initial treatment of all emergencies in the main Emergency Department.  There is the same responsibility for clinical decisions on appropriate admission of patients into hospital beds to special units or other hospitals, to out-patient clinics, or to the care of the family doctor.

The post-holder will review ad hoc returns.

He/she will share responsibility for coordinating the hospital’s major incident procedure

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This post is not recognised by the College of Emergency Medicine for professional training. However, this post gives an opportunity to expand and consolidate the post holder’s current medical knowledge. The post-holder will also have a valuable opportunity to participate in the further development of services, which forms an important and often neglected, part of higher medical training.