Senior Clinical Fellow - Emergency Medicine (Interest in Ultrasound)

Job summary

The Emergency Department at Chelsea andWestminster Hospital in an exciting and expanding department in one of the countries busiest non-elective trusts.We are looking for an enthusiastic, forward thinking team player to help build on the current excellent reputation and trust ethos.

We have an exciting opportunity as an Ultrasound Senior Clinical Fellow for a candidate who wishes to obtain training and broaden their experience in Ultrasound. Successful candidates with be working on a full rota with the regional higher specialty trainees, clinical fellows with special interest in research, global emergency medicine and simulation on the Chelsea and Westminster site.

We are a dynamic team of 12 consultants, 10 of whom are level 1 trained, and four of whom are at least PgCert in medical ultrasound. We hold 4 state of the art ultrasound machines and incorporate ultrasound skills into clinical work and both SHO and middle grade teaching. This post is aimed at candidates who are keen to progress their ultrasound skills beyond level 1 ultrasound, integrate their ultrasound skills into everyday shop floor work and participate in ultrasound focussed research under a mentor. This is supplemented by a PgCert in medical ultrasound which is funded along with ultrasound specific days. These involve 1:1 scan reviews by a Consultant with special interest in ultrasound and self-directed study.

This post will be on 2002 Junior doctor contract on MN37 payscale

Main duties of the job

We are keen for our ultrasound fellow to integrate in both Junior and senior teaching programmes. We run ultrasound workshops integrating simulation manikins where appropriate. We would devise a PDP early in the placement and set specific goals during the post. Previous postholders have been awarded a job split of up to 70:30 Emergency Medicine: ultrasound. The split will be agreed with the educational supervisor depending on projects or postgraduate courses that the postholder wishes to undertake, and regularly reviewed against progress demonstrated towards their PDP.

This is suitable as an out of programme post; for further information on seeking prospective GMC approval for training, please refer to the details on the GMC website and your local training standards committee.

For informal queries please contact Dr Paramjeet Deol paramjeet.deol@nhs.net

Interviews to be held TBC

Commencing August 2024 onwards for 12 months.

About us

We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East. We have over 6,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the best preforming Trusts in the country. We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff say they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good'. We've also been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating for 'use of resources' by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children's unit at West Middlesex - in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.