Job overview

Our clinical fellow posts have been rolled out across the whole of the Medical Division, recognising the importance of combining clinical work and professional development at an early stage of your career. We want to develop and expand these roles to offer exciting professional development opportunities within the field of Emergency Medicine, which in itself is such a broad-based specialty.  

The posts are ideal for people with a developing passion for Emergency Medicine who want to start taking on EM junior middle-grade responsibilities in a well-supported and pro-active department or those who are already confident with middle grade duties and are looking to consolidate an established passion for this exciting specialty. They will enable time to be spent developing non-clinical experience or skills during the 30% non-clinical time.

There are also opportunities for more experienced Emergency Medicine doctors who are looking for some time out of training or keen to have time to explore something new.

Main duties of the job

The posts will comprise of 70% standard ED clinical work and up to 30% special interest time (which would include personal teaching time.

Generally, the posts are of 1 year duration, but shorter or longer posts will be considered depending on the needs of the individual and department requirements. This will release periods of weekday time to undertake a special interest role and allow greater flexibility compared to traditional rotas, whilst still fulfilling the requirements of your contract.  The rota is based on gold standard rostering systems as advised by the Royal College of Medicine, using semi-self-rostering in an annualised system.

The clinical work will be on the junior or senior (ST4+ equivalent) middle grade rota depending on previous experience. 

Up to 30% of these roles will be dedicated time to develop a special interest or further your educational requirements.  You may choose to work as an educational fellow, supporting the medical students and foundation doctors in the department and developing your own educational and simulation skills.  Maybe your passion is point of care ultrasound and you would like to have dedicated time to further develop your clinical skills in this area, as well as helping the department establish ultrasound teaching resources.  Perhaps your passion lies in the extremes of age and working as a frailty or paediatric EM fellow would interest you.

Working for our organisation

At UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us always put the Patient First. Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of Staff Networks to help break down barriers, and can offer a buddy to help new members settle in. We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) and a Veteran Aware Trust.

We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We’re here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in our Wellbeing Programme  for staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need it, including where possible, flexible working to support work life balance - because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves. 

As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching and training so that we can be the best that we can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We hope that in choosing UHSussex you are choosing a long and happy career where you will be able to see the difference you make and feel valued for all that you do.

We look forward to receiving your application and the start of your journey with UHSussex.