Junior Clinical Fellow in Sexual Health and HIV Medicine

Job summary

The doctor will be based in the John Hunter clinic for sexual health, where they will see both sexual health patients, as well as patients attending for contraception. Training and shadowing opportunities will be provided prior to doctors seeing patients independently and senior / consultant support will be fully available at all times.

The post-holder will be responsible for investigating, diagnosing and treating sexually transmitted infections and all aspects of sexual and reproductive health within the main GUM clinic. They will be expected to be involved in specialist GU clinics and assist in the development of new clinical services. In addition, the post-holder will also be responsible for checking and acting on laboratory results and discussion of these results with senior medical staff as required/appropriate. They would also have the opportunity to develop their own skills and interests with the support of a dedicated clinical supervisor.

The post-holder will be required to build on existing close relations with colleagues as part of a multidisciplinary team. They will be encouraged to participate in audit, research and teach medical students attached to the team. There is a strong focus on service development and improvement within the department, and the post holder would be highly encouraged to develop and support similar service improvement projects

Main duties of the job

The Doctor will work within the outpatient Sexual health and HIV teams at St Stephen's centre (John Hunter sexual health clinic).

They will be under the supervision of seniors, participating in busy sexual health clinics, specialist sexual health services, and HIV clinics.

The post-holder will be responsible for investigating, diagnosing and treating sexually transmitted infections and all aspects of sexual and reproductive health within the main GUM clinic. They will be expected to be involved in specialist GU clinics and assist in the development of new clinical services.

In addition they will also be responsible for checking and acting on laboratory results and discussion of these results with senior medical staff as required/appropriate.

The post-holder will be responsible for arranging appropriate onward internal and external patient referrals and correspondence with General Practitioners as relevant. The post-holder will also be expected to contribute to non-clinical duties e.g. clinic rota co-ordination and managerial responsibilities as delegated. The doctor shall contribute to the development of the multidisciplinary team by offering support, education and teaching/training where required.

Child and adult safeguarding is a priority within the directorate, and the post holders will be expected to attend appropriate training, and be able to identify cases and refer them to appropriate services.

About us

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England.

We have two main acute hospital sites--Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.

The Sexual Health and HIV services managed by Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust (CWFT) comprise one of the busiest centres in Europe. Specialist GUM services include the male and female chronic problem clinics, genital dermatology clinics, High Resolution Anoscopy, Laser, minor operations, services for individuals with learning difficulties/disabilities, commercial sex workers, complex PrEP and the trans population.

In addition we run daily contraception clinics, including provision of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) as well as Complex LARC. The Directorate also has a thriving research unit and is involved in major GUM and HIV clinical drug trials taking place in the UK.