Junior Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine - London, United Kingdom - Whittington Health NHS Trust

Whittington Health NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are looking for one full time Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine
(FY3 Level) with Special Interest.

The post holder will work as a Foundation Year 3 doctor within the Emergency Department.

The successful applicant will join a committed team in a forward thinking Emergency Department.

The post will offer a wide range of experience in all aspects of both Adult and Paediatric Emergency Medicine and would be suitable for those planning a career in either hospital based specialities or General Practice.

The post holder will receive regular departmental and simulation based teaching. They will be assigned an educational supervisor and will also have the opportunity to take place in departmental audits.

As a department we value staff wellness and have recently run a successful initiative to promote and facilitate staff taking their allocated breaks.

Please see the full Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role.

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.

DUTIES OF POST

This job is ideal for a person who is looking to gain more experience in Emergency medicine or who is considering a career in the specialty.

The role will provide the successful applicant with further experience in a busy department with a varied and challenging case mix.

It would also suit someone contemplating a future career in Emergency Medicine.

The successful applicant will be involved in the initial assessment and management of patients. They will benefit from clinical leadership from Emergency Department Middle Grades and the ED Consultants. They will participate in the FY2 rota working a full shift pattern. Research interests and involvement in audit projects will be encouraged.

There are regular weekly and monthly meetings held in the hospital's Postgraduate Centre. Programmes are regularly circulated. There is also an ongoing Emergency Department teaching programme. The Emergency Department Consultants are committed to the supervision and development of this post. All post holders will have a Consultant allocated as their Educational Supervisor for the duration of the post.