Bank ST4 - Paediatrics

The appointee will be expected to undertake audit and quality improvement projects, as well as to attend clinical governance meetings, mortality and morbidity meetings, regional and national educational meetings. Research activity is encouraged. The appointee will actively participate in the local educational programme of teaching undergraduates as well as postgraduates. Our Paediatric department is currently recruiting an enthusiastic, dedicated and experienced Trust Clinical Fellow (ST4-ST8 Level) to join our team. Ideally, you will have a minimum of one year's NHS experience at registrar level. Our Neptune Children's Ward was commissioned in May 1995 and is situated in a wing of nucleus design. Neptune Children's Unit has 27 beds and a seven bedded Paediatric Page 2 of 11 Page 4 of 11 Assessment Unit for triage assessment and treatment. The PAU has an annual throughput of approximately 4,000 children. On the Children's Ward elective, emergency and day-stay surgery is accommodated as well as medical emergency and day-stay admissions. There are three six bedded rooms, a four-cot nursery divided into separate cubicles and remaining beds are within side-rooms. There are several high dependency beds on the ward to enable sick children to be managed locally where possible. Excellent links are in place with Great Ormond Street and other tertiary centres, many providing visiting Consultants for joint specialist multidisciplinary clinics.