Senior Clinical Fellow - General Surgery/ED Liaison

Job summary

Applications are invited for the posts of Senior Clinical Fellow for Emergency Department and Surgical Hot Clinic Support. This is an opportunity to join a busy, dynamic multidisciplinary team to help us improve the service that we provide to our population. The Senior Clinical Fellows for Surgical Emergency Department (ED) and Surgical Hot Clinic Support are new established posts to provide support to ED to improve the flow through ED and reduce the number of surgical admissions. The posts are to cover ED 24/7 and will be on a rotas system of day and night duties.The ED Liaison post is a key role as they fast track patients through their diagnosis and initiate investigations and provide initial management plans for patients presenting with acute surgical issues. The post holder will also triage surgical patients, and this improves the decision making for admission/further referral or ambulatory management in the Surgical Hot Clinic. These posts are in addition to the on-call surgical Senior Clinical Fellow who is responsible for managing ward referrals, resus and trauma calls and all paediatric and community GP referrals.

Main duties of the job

The post also support the award winning Surgical Hot Clinic and the aim is to run these clinics 7 days per which reduces hospital admission by providing acute ambulatory care for patients referred to the on-call surgical service.The post offers an excellent opportunity to consolidate and build on existing operative and clinical skills in General and emergency surgery and the ideal candidate will be able to undertake research and develop their leadership skills with support of the surgical team.They will have opportunity to get involved in quality improvement projects. We will support the appointee in their career progression.The main duties of the applicants will be triaging of surgical patients and providing surgical managed to avoid hospital admission. They will work closely with the Emergency Consultant and wider surgical teams.

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across northeast London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.

Employer details

Employer name

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Queen's Hospital

Queen's Hospital

Romford

RM7 0AG

Employer's website

https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Queen's Hospital

Queen's Hospital

Romford

RM7 0AG

Employer's website

https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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