Job summary
Our Senior Clinical Fellow posts have an excellent track record in helping doctors into nationally recognised Health Education training posts! So, why not apply for a post with us and take your first step on that journey?

This is an excellent opportunity within Emergency Medicine at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. We are seeking an enthusiastic clinical fellow to join the department to provide patient care within the trust. You will work as part of the emergency department team. We will offer you a Study Leave budget of £1,000 per year which will help towards your Continuing Professional Development. We have a total of 1 post available, so please start your application today!

Main duties of the job

• Initial resuscitation and management of all emergency patients presenting to the department.
• Initiation of the necessary investigation of patients and the referral to the relevant on-call specialist team when indicated.
• Initiation of the necessary investigation of patients and the referral to the relevant on-call specialist team when indicated

About us
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities
In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.

Qualifications
Essential

• Hold full registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) at the time of application and hold a current licence to practice on the date your post commences.
• Full MRCEM Exam
• Advanced Life Support Certificate or equivalent

Desirable

• Higher degree including: MSc, PhD or MD (not including intercalated BSc and 'Honorary' MA).

Experience
Essential

• Successful completion of a UK ACCS Emergency Medicine (or equivalent) programme
• Demonstrable interest in and comprehension of Emergency medicine
• Experience of working in Emergency Medicine at Senior Registrar level or equivalent

Desirable

• NHS experience

Academic skills
Essential

• Demonstrates understanding of research, including awareness of ethical issues.
• Demonstrates understanding of the basic principles of clinical risk management, evidence-based practice, patient safety and clinical quality improvement initiatives.
• Evidence of involvement in a quality improvement or formal research project.
• Demonstrates knowledge of evidence-informed practice.
• Demonstrates an understanding of clinical governance.
• Evidence of teaching experience and/or training in teaching.

Desirable

• Evidence of involvement in teaching students, postgraduates and other professionals and evidence of participation in a teaching course.

Personal Skills
Essential

• Demonstrates clarity in written and spoken communication, and capacity to adapt language to the situation, as appropriate.
• Capacity to take in others' perspectives and treat others with understanding; sees patients as people.
• Demonstrates respect for all.
• Able to work in multi-professional teams and supervise junior medical staff.
• Capacity to manage and prioritise time and information effectively.
• Capacity to prioritise own workload and organise ward rounds

Fitness to Practice
Essential

• Up to date and fit to practice safely and aware of own training needs.
• Evidence of engagement with appraisal and revalidation

Clinical Skills
Essential

• Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors
• Able to show situational awareness and application of good decision making
• Ability to apply sound clinical knowledge and judgement to problems
• Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
• Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues

Desirable

• Ability to teach clinical skills
• Experience in organising educational activities.

Other requirements
Essential

• Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
• Role model our trust values every day

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).