Senior Clinical Fellow - Paediatric Emergency Medicine

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Job overview

We are recruiting to a Senior Clinical Fellow in Paediatric Emergency Medicine.

You will:

• Work exclusively in the Paediatric Emergency Department (PED)
• Have no overnight shift or on call commitment
• Earn a full salary

Please note, this post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Main duties of the job

The Paediatric Emergency Department at The Whittington Hospital is part of the Emergency Department and Urgent Care Centre and prior to Covid 19 would see around 25,000 patients each year making it the busiest PED in South NCL.

There is a dedicated Children's Ambulatory Unit admitting children requiring care beyond the 4-hour window, and there is a separate Paediatric Day Care Unit co-located with the paediatric ward. The hospital also has a well-established Hospital at Home service with plans to expand this across the sector.

The Paediatric Emergency Department sees children requiring both Emergency and Urgent Care and this post would therefore be an excellent opportunity for applicants wishing to develop skills in Paediatric Emergency Medicine and Minor Injuries. There are dedicated PEM Consultants who will provide clinical supervision and support for the applicant to be able to pursue their individual training needs. Both the Paediatric Department and the Emergency Department have well-established excellent teaching programmes and the applicant will be encouraged to engage in relevant training. The Whittington Hospital is also a registered PERUKI site and there will be opportunities to be involved in research in Paediatric Emergency Medicine.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Lead shifts at registrar level in PED, contributing to providing 12 hour / day middle grade cover. There will be no night shift commitment in this post.
• Assess and manage your own patients.
• Assist and supervise the junior doctors.
• Help manage patient flow, with particular focus on achieving the 4-hour target.
• Gain excellent experience in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, and in education, management, and quality improvement.

There is shop-floor consultant cover seven days a week from 0800-2230. There is a consultant dedicated to supervising the PED during weekdays until 1700.

The ED Consultants are committed to the supervision and development of these posts. You will be allocated a PEM consultant as your Educational Supervisor, helping you gain the development and competencies you seek and to support you with PEM or GRID subspeciality applications if required.

Person specification

Evidence

Essential criteria

• full GMC
• four years' full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent) at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty
• Completion of Foundation Programme or equivalent experience.
• Experience of 2 years or more working in Emergency Medicine or Paediatrics.

Desirable criteria

• APLS or similar qualification
• 6 months experience PEM or Acute Paediatrics in a UK
• QI or teaching
• understands national 4hr target
• Audits or conferences

essential

Essential criteria

• Works well in a team

Essential

Essential criteria

• Worked in NHS

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies , procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form -

1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes -

1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information -

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

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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

• PEM - 6 Months (PDF, 768.3KB)