Senior Clinical Fellow - Emergency Dept

The post is an appointment for 12 months as a LAS in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust. There are in the region of over 70,000 new attendances at Alder Hey ED annually, of which about 15% are admitted. The medical, surgical and orthopedics specialties see referred patients within the department who have been sent to them by the general practitioners for possible admission as well as patients referred by ED for admission. There is a PEM Consultant presence in the clinical areas of the ED from 0800 to 0000 seven days a week. Facilities The clinical area is spacious and well equipped. It consists of: Two resuscitation rooms and 2 high dependency rooms. One multi-sensory room. One Section 136 'safe' room. 18 acute cubicles for reviewing and treating patients. A minor operations room. An Emergency Decisions Unit with 12 beds to allow observation and short-term treatment of patients. An integrated decontamination unit. The Paediatric Urgent Treatment Centre

Clinical The resuscitation, examination, investigation, diagnosis and treatment of patients presenting to the Emergency Department To work as part of a multidisciplinary Team There will be senior supervision available for training grade doctors in the Department i.e Consultant presence 16 hours per day. Night shift support is provided by the non resident ED consultant, and on site medical, surgical, ICU and anaesthetic paediatric ST4+ doctors. Other Liaison with senior colleagues to ensure the provision of effective ED clinical services. Responsibility in respect of the reasonable and effective use of hospital and district resources in liaison with ED budget holder. Liaison through the directorate with other staff of the hospital and the health authority. Participation in the Major Incident Procedure Assistance and liaison with the ambulance service Teaching and training of medical students, junior staff (medical and nursing) within the department and health professionals on placements in the department to gain paediatric experience. Contribution to Clinical Governance activities in the Department. Participation in improvement initiatives in the Department eg implementation of National Guidance.