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Senior Clinical Fellow
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
Contract
Fixed term: 6 months
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week
Job ref
289-WLCH-SCF-0391
Employer
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
West Middlesex University Hospital
Town
Isleworth
Salary
£37,068 - £57,570 + on calls & London Weighting
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

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Senior Clinical Fellow - Paediatrics and Neonatology

NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow

About our Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.

Our nearly 7,000 members of staff are proud to care for a diverse population of 1.5 million from the beginning to the end of life. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, including our award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We’re one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for—our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in the domains of safe, effective, caring and responsive, and 'Outstanding' in the domains of well-led and use of resources.

Our facilities are among the best in the country. We invest around £10m a year in our estate and have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster.  Works commence in spring 2024 on an ambitious £80m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at our West Middlesex site.

Applications are welcomed from applicants who wish to apply for the position on the basis of a smarter or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, such requests will be taken under consideration and accommodated where the needs of the service allow. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.

Job overview

We are seeking to employ a Paediatric Clinical Fellow (ST4-8 equivalent) in Paediatrics for a fixed time period of 6 months. 

The post will be based in acute Paediatrics with Neonatology at West Middlesex Hospital.  In all work, the post-holder will be working alongside London Deanery trainees from general practice and paediatrics on a combined rota, with the same access to educational opportunities, including the daily teaching sessions and the simulation sessions.

The Special Care Baby Unit is based within the Queen Mary Maternity and has 16 cots, 2 of which are open cots designated for Intensive Care. Infants under 1kg or 30 weeks gestation are stabilised prior to transfer to the perinatal unit within the North-West London Network. 

There is a commitment to teaching and learning at all levels with an active weekly teaching programme.

The posts cover all paediatric inpatient and new-born areas of clinical care, working with the existing paediatric team. They are ideally suited to trainees who want to gain clinical skills in a general hospital setting of undifferentiated presentations.  The combined rota gives clinical experience in management of general paediatric patients and neonatology, including stabilisation of critically ill children and new-borns prior to transfer to other tertiary units for on-going care.

The post would be suitable for a clinician who has 2+ years of paediatric experience (with at least 6 months of neonatal experience).

Main duties of the job

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Provide day to day care for children in partnership with the consultants and the multidisciplinary team.
  • Prepare and contribute to Paediatric MDT meetings and journal clubs
  • Participate in paediatric and neonatal resuscitations with the team
  • To participate in out of hours rotas
  • To help with acute paediatric emergencies as part of the paediatric resuscitation team
  • Contribute to the postgraduate and undergraduate teaching programme
  • Participate in audit, guideline development and clinical research within the department

The post would be suitable for a clinician who has 2+ years of paediatric experience (with at least 6 months of neonatal experience).

Working for our organisation

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England.

We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.

  • We employ over 7,000 staff and 500 volunteers
  • We treat someone in A&E every 90 seconds
  • We deliver a baby every 50 minutes
  • We operate on a patient every 16 minutes
  • We do 50 imaging procedures each hour
  • We serve a diverse population of 1.5 million from the beginning to the end of life

Our values

Our PROUD values demonstrate to staff, patients and the public the standards of care and experience they should expect from our services:

  • Putting patients first
  • Responsive to patients and staff
  • Open and honest
  • Unfailingly kind
  • Determined to develop

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Provide day to day care for children in partnership with the consultants and the multidisciplinary team.
  • Prepare and contribute to Paediatric MDT meetings and journal clubs
  • Participate in paediatric and neonatal resuscitations with the team
  • To participate in out of hours rotas
  • To help with acute paediatric emergencies as part of the paediatric resuscitation team
  • Contribute to the postgraduate and undergraduate teaching programme
  • Participate in audit, guideline development and clinical research within the department

Person specification

Education and qualifications

Essential criteria
  • MB BS or equivalent
  • GMC registered with a licence to practice

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Completed Foundation training or equivalent (2 years of clinical work experience post-graduation)
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience within an NHS setting
  • Previous Paediatric experience

Skills and knowledge

Desirable criteria
  • Competent in full range of practical skills with relevance to Paediatrics
  • Experience working within multi-disciplinary teams
  • Child protection experience/training
  • EPLS/APLS and NLS

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDWe are a Living Wage EmployerCapital Nurse, LondonHealthy Workplace - Commitment 2018Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoTimewise helps businesses to attract and develop the best talent through flexible working.No smoking policyCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthArmed Forces Covenant Bronze AwardArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Jo Longman
Job title
Paediatric Consultant
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Please that this vacancy is based at West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth.

The nearest station, Syon Lane, is 15 minutes waking distance away, and the nearest tube, Gunnersbury (District Line) has a variety of bus routes outside that go directly to the hospital. 

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