Senior Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine (ST3-8)

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Senior Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine (ST3-8)

ST3-8 Equivalent

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Job Overview

Join our team at the Great North Trauma and Emergency Centre!

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well-integrated team.

Our newly expanded Senior Clinical Fellow programme includes the option of full time Emergency Medicine posts as well as 80:20 split posts between Emergency Medicine and a specialist interest.

Do you want to experience the excitement of seeing the full scope of emergency presentations in one of only 12 Emergency Departments designated as an Adult and Paediatric Major Trauma Centre? Are you looking to continue to develop a career in emergency medicine under the supervision of a team of consultants who have consistently delivered excellent training at all levels? Do you want to be part of a highly supportive and friendly team and work in a fast paced, high intensity environment?

Main duties of the job

We aim to ensure that the correct level of competence is achieved, including:

• Development of managing the emergency department, including liaison with senior nursing team
• Resuscitation and major trauma clinical skills
• Supervision and provision of clinical advice to junior medical staff
• Formulating and implementing management plans for patients within sphere of competence in both acute and long-term presentations.
• Refining of procedural skills
• Responsibility for effective communication with other members of the clinical team to ensure the planned management for each patient is carried out.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:

• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
  
  

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Our Senior Clinical Fellow programme includes posts with the exciting opportunity to have 20% of time dedicated to a specialist interest. The specialist interest posts include sports & exercise medicine, pre-hospital emergency medicine, paediatric retrieval & transfer, and point of care ultrasound. See more information below.

Whilst working in Emergency Medicine, you will join a team of 29 consultants, 3 specialty doctors, 18 senior resident and higher specialty trainee doctors, 28 other resident doctors, 9 ACPs and over 100 nurses working in the Emergency Department. This post involves a full shift system, involving nights and weekend work. Your primary responsibility will include delivering care to the full spectrum of patients that attend the emergency department and on shift clinical supervision of junior members of the team. You will be a key component of the trauma team and will have the chance to act as the Trauma Team Leader (with supervision). You will use and develop your emergency care skills to resuscitate the most critically unwell patients. Senior clinical fellows in the Emergency Department are supported by resident on-call ED Consultants 24/7.

Person specification

Education And Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Primary Medical Qualification.
• Full GMC registration or eligibility to obtain this within 3 months (or within 6 months for non-EEA applicants).
• Completed Foundation Programme or equivalent.
• At least 6 months previous NHS experience.
• At least 12 months experience of working in emergency medicine.
• ALS or equivalent.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Other resuscitation course, e.g. ATLS, APLS, NLS, ETC
• Distinctions. Scholarships, prizes, BSc (or equivalent).
• Anaesthetic & critical care experience.
• Completion of ACCS programme or equivalent.
• Completion of CPD activity related to a specialist interest.
  
  

Clinical Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Able to independently manage a wide variety of presentations to the emergency department, including initial resuscitation of unwell patients.
• Able to independently perform practical skills required in core emergency medicine work.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of skills developed beyond the core requirements.
• Experience of supervising/providing advice to junior medical colleagues.
• Experience of clinically managing an emergency department.
  
  

Management and Administration Experience

Essential criteria

• Proven management and administration ability.
• Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of advanced management experience, e.g. involvement in complaint response, serious incident investigation, rota management.
  
  

Teaching

Essential criteria

• Ability to teach clinical skills.
• Evidence of teaching a multi-professional audience.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Teaching qualifications.
• Resus course instructor
  
  

Clinical Governance, Audit and Research

Essential criteria

• Experience of audit projects.
• A solid understanding of Clinical Governance.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of participation in quality improvement work.
• Evidence of involvement in research.
  
  

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

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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

• Job Description (PDF, 643.0KB)
• Newcastle Staff Benefits (PDF, 274.4KB)
• Behaviour and Civility Charter (PDF, 93.8KB)
  
  

Apply online now

Further details / informal visits contact

Name Victoria Cowan Job title HR Advisor Email address victoria.cowan2@nhs.net