Job summary
- Main area
- Medicine
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 411-MED-25-6967123
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey Children's Hospital
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £61,825 - £70,425 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Fellow
NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
This is a full time (10 PA’s) post in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine.
Start date June 2025 (other start dates by negotiation).
We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated individual for this post within the Paediatric Respiratory Medicine team at Alder Hey Hospital which will provide specialist respiratory training. Along with other team members you will provide both secondary and tertiary respiratory care to children within the region. The post would suit trainees wishing to expand their knowledge of paediatric respiratory medicine either pre or post CCT.
This is a full-time (40 hours), fixed-term post working within the Respiratory Team at Alder Hey Hospital. The successful applicant will have opportunity to increase their knowledge of tertiary respiratory medicine, and to improve upon practical skills such as paediatric bronchoscopy. The role will be predominantly providing out-patient care to patient’s with simple and complex respiratory disorders and working within the newly created multidisciplinary asthma service. The role will not involve general paediatrics and there is no on-call commitment. This post does not have educational approval from the Mersey Post-Graduate Deanery for speciality registrar training.
Consideration will be given to applicants who wish to work full or part time and those wishing to job share.
Main duties of the job
Main Duties
The main responsibilities of the clinical fellow are to work within the team providing outpatient management to children with respiratory disorders, both general respiratory and complex respiratory disorders.
Out-patient duties
The out-patient duties will comprise of 4 clinics each week, and dedicated time will be given for clinic preparation and administration. The clinical fellow will contribute to consultant led clinics in a supervised capacity and also contribute to the weekly SpR led clinic. Clinics will include general respiratory medicine where both secondary and tertiary level patients are seen and sleep/long-term ventilation clincis. The fellow will also have the opportunity to attend specialist clinics such as sleep, PCD, BPD, neurodisability, sickle cell, congenital thoracic malformations, immunodeficiency clinic where respiratory complications arising from these disorders are reviewed and managed.
In-patient duties
The majority of the children who are under our care are admitted to the medical specialities ward. However, many children are admitted to other wards including the general medical ward, High Dependency and Intensive Care Units. We also provide input to patients of other specialities such as ENT, surgery, neurology and oncology. Our team provides the regional flexible bronchoscopy service for children. Bronchoscopy is conducted as a day case procedure for most standard-risk children in a dedicated weekly The Clinical Fellow will:
Working for our organisation
As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.
We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main Duties
Clinical
The main responsibilities of the clinical fellow are to work within the team providing outpatient management to children with respiratory disorders, both general respiratory and complex respiratory disorders.
There will also be some work managing in-patients along with the 3 – 5 FTE middle-grade trainees and 1-2 FTE ST1-2 level speciality doctors.
There will opportunity to gain expertise in specific areas of respiratory medicine and this can be discussed with the successful candidate.
Out-patient duties
The out-patient duties will comprise of 4 clinics each week, and dedicated time will be given for clinic preparation and administration. The clinical fellow will contribute to consultant led clinics in a supervised capacity and also contribute to the weekly SpR led clinic. Clinics will include general respiratory medicine where both secondary and tertiary level patients are seen and sleep/long-term ventilation clincis. The fellow will also have the opportunity to attend specialist clinics such as sleep, PCD, BPD, neurodisability, sickle cell, congenital thoracic malformations, immunodeficiency clinic where respiratory complications arising from these disorders are reviewed and managed.
In-patient duties
The majority of the children who are under our care are admitted to the medical specialities ward. However, many children are admitted to other wards including the general medical ward, High Dependency and Intensive Care Units. We also provide input to patients of other specialities such as ENT, surgery, neurology and oncology. Our team provides the regional flexible bronchoscopy service for children. Bronchoscopy is conducted as a day case procedure for most standard-risk children in a dedicated weekly list.
The Clinical Fellow will:
- share duties with the other respiratory registrars in reviewing and guiding management in these children and communicating with their families and other involved clinicians. These children are complex and often medically unstable.
- provide an initial assessment of new respiratory referrals from other specialist services within and outside the hospital, and then discuss the referral and initial management plan with the attending consultant
- assist with co-ordination of bronchoscopy list and have the opportunity to train in bronchoscopy technique if appropriate to the post-holder’s training needs.
The in-patient responsibilities include supervision of the more junior doctors in maintaining safe and effective care for children.
Person specification
shortlisting
Essential criteria
- Full Registration and licence to practice with GMC (or eligibility for)
- Demonstrable experience at either: ST4 and above
- Written communication skills in English and the ability to explain clinical procedures to patients
- Ability to build effective relationships and work collaboratively with staff at all levels of the organisationin research
- Demonstrate evidence of ongoing commitment to personal and professional development
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate an interest in research
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Andrew Hartley
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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