Senior Clinical FellowPaediatrics

Senior Clinical Fellow in Paediatric Surgery

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

CQC: Good

London

Salary

£45,715 – £69,976

Posted

2 weeks ago

About the role

We are seeking to employ a Senior Clinical Fellow in Paediatric Surgery and Urology (6 months, with possibility of extension/ longer contract) to assist cover of general paediatric surgery and urology inpatient and outpatient clinical care.

The main objectives of the post are to:

Support inpatient surgical management of elective and emergency workload

Outpatient clinic duties including administration

Outpatient and day surgery support to outreach hospitals in North-West London

On call commitment in line with European working time directive

Responsibilities will include:

To support, with colleagues in Paediatric Surgery/Urology, an integrated elective and emergency Paediatric & Neonatal Surgery service.

To provide high quality clinical care for all children referred to the service and to be available to attend paediatric surgery/urology patients when on call.

Senior Clinical Fellow in Paediatric Surgery

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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To provide appropriate and adequate supervision for junior medical staff within the Paediatric Surgical and Urology team.

To participate in regular unit and personal audit of clinical practice

General paediatric Surgical on call rota:

The on call rota covers general paediatric surgical and urological inpatients as well as neonatal ward in-patients including high dependency and emergency admissions. The post holder will do a 24 hour non resident on call shift as part of a 1: 8 rota.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust aims to be a hospital of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff.

Excellence in research and the development of the NHS staff of the future to improve patient care are integral to the Trust's status as a teaching hospital. Chelsea and Westminster is a main campus for teaching Imperial College medical students, with state-of-the-art facilities for undergraduate medical education including an on-site Simulation Centre - a virtual operating theatre used to train medical students.

Research and development enhances our clinical care, and vice versa - the Trust has 15 research programmes and 213 active research projects, focused on clinical areas including HIV and Neonatology. The first Professor of Acute Medicine in the UK was appointed to an Imperial College post based at Chelsea and Westminster in 2006.

The acute paediatric service caters for 30,600 emergency attendances per year and over 4,000 acute admissions per year. The inpatient unit caters for a whole range of specialist patients in addition to acute paediatrics including neurology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, respirology, and cardiology; in addition paediatric general and specialist surgery, trauma & orthopaedics, ENT, ophthalmology, dental and maxillofacial, craniofacial. A full range of imaging services is on site including MRI, supported by paediatric anaesthesia.

Person specification

Essential

Putting patients first
Responsive to, and supportive of, patients and staff
Open, welcoming and honest
Unfailingly kind, treating everyone with respect, compassion and dignity
Determined to develop our skills and continuously improve the quality of care
MB BS or Equivalent
Full medical registration
At least 2 years surgical SHO (or equivalent) experience including paediatric surgery experience in the NHS
Competent in full range of paediatric practical skills
Good Communicator
Experience of delivering teaching
Experience working within multi-disciplinary teams
Enthusiasm for teaching, both undergraduate and post-graduate
Child protection experience/training
EPLS or APLS
Team Working
Enthusiastic

Desirable

MRCS
Paediatric surgery experience at the registrar/middle grade level
Child protection certification
Innovative
Problem solving approach