Senior Clinical Fellow in Paediatrics (Paediatrics and Neonatal)

Job responsibilities

Acute General Paediatrics

All tier 2 (middle grade) paediatric doctors on the general paediatric ward are responsible for the care of babies, children, and young people (BYCP) (up to the age of 18 years) admitted to the ward and assessing patients referred by the Emergency Department and GPs and for seeing BCYP in outpatient clinics. They are responsible for ward work, keeping thorough, legible notes and discharge summaries as well as participating in the weekly training half days.

Experience will be gained in acute and general paediatrics and in the management of patients with and sickle cell disease, shared care oncology as well as child protection work.

The clinical fellow would be expected to both lead and accompany the attending consultant on the regular daily ward round in co-operation with nursing staff and junior trainees. To get to know the patients on the wards and to identify those families with social or psychological problems to be discussed at the weekly paediatric multidisciplinary liaison meeting.

Duties include:

Liaison with nursing staff, parents, medical and support services

Liaison with the attending general paediatric consultant

Liaison with tertiary units for shared care patients

Supervision of ward work and record keeping

SBAR handover of patients and their problems to fellow registrars at shift changes

Participation in general paediatric clinics

Attendance and participation with joint medical meetings and training

Medical student and junior trainee teaching

Neonatal unit:

The neonatal doctors are responsible for the care of babies in the neonatal intensive care unit, on the postnatal wards and in the labour ward. They are expected to participate in ward rounds, neonatal-obstetric meetings, paediatric training meetings, and the weekly neonatal multidisciplinary liaison meeting. They are responsible for completing neonatal discharge summaries.

Experience will be gained in neonatal resuscitation, neonatal intensive care and neonatal developmental follow-up in a multi-disciplinary team. Doctors are expected to become proficient in technical skills including intravenous cannulation; insertion of umbilical and percutaneous venous lines and learning the basics of cranial ultrasound is encouraged.

Clinical duties include:

Participation in the consultant ward rounds and leading wards rounds alone.

Participation in daily record keeping, updating of results, supervision of junior trainee discharge summaries and completion of complex summaries. Assistance to junior trainees on labour ward and postnatal wards. Liaison with tertiary referring units, community midwives and nurses and social services.

Communication with parents of infants on the neonatal unit and postnatal ward

Presentation of cases at the neonatal unit multi-disciplinary psychosocial meeting.

Qualifications

Essential

• MBBS or equivalent

Desirable

• MRCPCH Part 1A and/or 1B. NLS APLS

Eligibility

Essential

• Delivery of good acute clinical care
• Maintaining good medical practice
• Good relationships and communication with patients
• Good working relationships with colleagues
• Professional behaviour and probity

Clinical Experience

Essential

• Foundation year 2 (or equivalent) with paediatric experience

Desirable

• 6 months paediatric neonatal experience

Fitness to practise

Essential

• Up to date

Language skills

Essential

• Applicant to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English that are adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues

Health

Essential

• Meets professional health requirements (in line with GMC standards/Good Medical Practice)

Registration

Essential

• Limited or Full GMC registration

Career progression

Essential

• Provision of complete details of employment history

Personal skills

Essential

• Capacity to communicate effectively at different levels, e.g. young people and their families
• Capacity to work cooperatively with others in a multidisciplinary group.
• Capacity to bring a range of approaches to solving problems.
• Capacity to manage acute situations under pressure
• Demonstrates initiative & resilience to cope with changing circumstances. Organisation ability to achieve a balance between urgent and important demands

Probity

Essential

• Takes responsibility for own actions. Displays honesty, integrity & awareness of ethical issues. Understands importance of advocacy, children's rights, safety, confidentiality & consent.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).