Job summary
Successful candidates will join a dynamic acute workforce treating a wide spectrum of emergency and acute paediatric medicine presentations. This is a great opportunity to broaden your experience while working in a friendly and supportive environment.
There is a strong training culture incorporating lecture-room teaching and clinical supervision, opportunities to attend relevant clinics and courses, and full immersion simulation sessions. The post holders will work up to 48 hours per week (including night shifts and weekend duties).
As well as providing an excellent foundation in general paediatrics, the post provides an opportunity to broaden outpatient skills with visiting consultants in neurology, endocrinology and urology from Addenbrookes and cardiology from London.
Please see full Job Description attached for full details.
Main duties of the job
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- The Paediatric department is run as a team and the clinical fellow will be responsible for the patients of all consultants. The main duties will be on the Children's Assessment Unit, Paediatric General ward (Rainbow) and the Neonatal unit. This will include assessment of unwell children on CAU, Emergency department and conducting ward rounds on Paediatric ward and NNU, attending at risk deliveries in delivery suite and supporting and supervising Tier 1 doctors.
- The post holder will work in the middle grade rota (Tier 2) 1:6 including evenings and weekends.
- There will be opportunities to do general clinics under supervision.
- Within the Paediatric department at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, the middle grade doctors will be able to undertake general paediatric training, subspecialist training with opportunities to gain extra experience in diabetes, allergy, respiratory disease, neurology. Neonatal training will continue through the post.
Please see full Job Description attached for full details.
About us
#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?
Job description
Job responsibilities
The CAU and Rainbow ward is a bright and cheerful environment for children, parents and staff alike. The unit comprises a 9 bed Childrens ward with isolation cubicles linked to a Childrens Short Stay Assessment and Observation Unit (CAU) with 6 beds and cubicles. The beds are used flexibly to accommodate paediatric medical and surgical patients. There is an HDU room, to allow intensive monitoring of children. We have good relations with the adult ITU staff at the hospital and admit critically sick children there for stabilisation, prior to transfer to PICU (usually Addenbrookes Cambridge). The department aims to provide comprehensive care for all patients under the age of 16 years but liaises closely and transfers, when appropriate, to Addenbrookes Hospital those patients who require regional services.
There is a twelve cot Neonatal Unit (NNU) with two fully equipped intensive care costs. The NNU has been upgraded and re-equipped to provide a more efficient and comfortable working environment. The number of deliveries at the West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust continues to rise and is currently around 2,629 per year. Dr Aamir is the neonatal lead.Paediatric Out-Patient Clinics are held in the Rainbow Out-Patients department. There is a wide variety of local sub-specialist paediatric clinics for a District General Hospital including preterm, newborn, neurodevelopmental follow up clinics, neurology/epilepsy, asthma, allergy, urology/nephrology, echocardiography, dermatology, diabetes/endocrinology, oncology and psychology.
Joint multidisciplinary outreach clinics for paediatric cardiology occur 10 times a year with visiting specialists from the Royal Brompton Hospital and from Evelina Childrens Hospital (Guys and St Thomas Hospital). Other outreach paediatric speciality clinics include endocrinology, neurology, genetics, urology and nephrology with visiting specialists from Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge and Norfolk and Norwich hospital.
For Paediatric cardiology the main links are to London (Evelina and Brompton) although there is a lot of liaisons with Addenbrookes who link into a different tertiary cardiology centre.
Please see full Job Description attached for full details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The CAU and Rainbow ward is a bright and cheerful environment for children, parents and staff alike. The unit comprises a 9 bed Childrens ward with isolation cubicles linked to a Childrens Short Stay Assessment and Observation Unit (CAU) with 6 beds and cubicles. The beds are used flexibly to accommodate paediatric medical and surgical patients. There is an HDU room, to allow intensive monitoring of children. We have good relations with the adult ITU staff at the hospital and admit critically sick children there for stabilisation, prior to transfer to PICU (usually Addenbrookes Cambridge). The department aims to provide comprehensive care for all patients under the age of 16 years but liaises closely and transfers, when appropriate, to Addenbrookes Hospital those patients who require regional services.
There is a twelve cot Neonatal Unit (NNU) with two fully equipped intensive care costs. The NNU has been upgraded and re-equipped to provide a more efficient and comfortable working environment. The number of deliveries at the West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust continues to rise and is currently around 2,629 per year. Dr Aamir is the neonatal lead.Paediatric Out-Patient Clinics are held in the Rainbow Out-Patients department. There is a wide variety of local sub-specialist paediatric clinics for a District General Hospital including preterm, newborn, neurodevelopmental follow up clinics, neurology/epilepsy, asthma, allergy, urology/nephrology, echocardiography, dermatology, diabetes/endocrinology, oncology and psychology.
Joint multidisciplinary outreach clinics for paediatric cardiology occur 10 times a year with visiting specialists from the Royal Brompton Hospital and from Evelina Childrens Hospital (Guys and St Thomas Hospital). Other outreach paediatric speciality clinics include endocrinology, neurology, genetics, urology and nephrology with visiting specialists from Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge and Norfolk and Norwich hospital.
For Paediatric cardiology the main links are to London (Evelina and Brompton) although there is a lot of liaisons with Addenbrookes who link into a different tertiary cardiology centre.
Please see full Job Description attached for full details.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Eligibility
Essential
- Hold Full GMC registration with a Licence to Practise
- MBBS or equivalent
- MRCPCH or equivalent
Desirable
- APLS/NLS Instructor
- Entry on the Specialist Register in Paediatrics.
Clinical experience
Essential
- Experience and training in child protection Level 3
- EPLS or APLS
- Experience in a wide variety of general specialist Paediatrics in senior role in the UK.
Desirable
- Entry on the Specialist Register in Neonates
- Previous experience as a paediatric consultant
Management and administration
Essential
- Willingness to share management and administration duties with consultant colleagues.
- To demonstrate experience in clinical audit and an understanding of the principles of clinical governance
Desirable
- To have attended a management course and have some experience of management
Research
Essential
- Critical reading skills
- Evidence based approach to clinical practise.
Desirable
- Experience of research
- Publication of peer-reviewed research
- Presentations at national and international meeting.
- Enthusiasm and plans for research in a DGH setting
Person Specification
Qualifications & Eligibility
Essential
- Hold Full GMC registration with a Licence to Practise
- MBBS or equivalent
- MRCPCH or equivalent
Desirable
- APLS/NLS Instructor
- Entry on the Specialist Register in Paediatrics.
Clinical experience
Essential
- Experience and training in child protection Level 3
- EPLS or APLS
- Experience in a wide variety of general specialist Paediatrics in senior role in the UK.
Desirable
- Entry on the Specialist Register in Neonates
- Previous experience as a paediatric consultant
Management and administration
Essential
- Willingness to share management and administration duties with consultant colleagues.
- To demonstrate experience in clinical audit and an understanding of the principles of clinical governance
Desirable
- To have attended a management course and have some experience of management
Research
Essential
- Critical reading skills
- Evidence based approach to clinical practise.
Desirable
- Experience of research
- Publication of peer-reviewed research
- Presentations at national and international meeting.
- Enthusiasm and plans for research in a DGH setting
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
