Senior Fellow in Pre-Hospital Care

Job overview

Our prehospital service is provided by Barts Health NHS Trust in partnership with the London’s Air Ambulance charity, and the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust. Clinical governance, leadership and support is provided by Barts Health, who are responsible for the doctors. Paramedics are provided by the London Ambulance Service and receive specialist training prior to undertaking their duties. London’s Air Ambulance charity plays a vital role in delivering many aspects of the service including the essential helicopter and rapid response car assets, but also an infrastructure that enables excellent care to be delivered to patients.

Our doctor-paramedic team responds to major trauma patients within the Greater London area, by helicopter during daylight hours and using rapid response cars during the hours of darkness. We are looking to appoint two part time Senior Fellows for a period of 12 months starting immediately. These Senior Fellows will predominantly cover the night shifts (Medic 2) around Clinical Governance Days each month as well as other unfilled shifts. As such, this position is ONLY open to those individuals who have completed a HEMS Fellow secondment within the last 12 months.

Main duties of the job

The service employs a number of substantive consultants, with most working a 3PA annualised rota commitment.

Seniors Physicians in prehospital care will work both alongside consultants and independently (with telephone consultant advice) on a 24/7 rota commitment contributing to 0.3 of a whole time equivalent.

In addition to clinical shifts, doctors have opportunities to reflect and learn from cases, realise the impact of their patient assessment and interventions, and provide peer review of the cases of others. Meetings include the regular death and disability meetings and clinical governance days and the opportunity to hear from forensic pathologists to correlate clinical and post mortem findings.

The job description is not intended to be exhaustive and it is likely that duties may be altered from time to time in the light of changing circumstances and after consultation with the post holder/s.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description and the person specification provide an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, outlining the qualification, skills, experience, and knowledge required.

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