Job summary
Employer heading
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
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
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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