Job summary
Join our team as a Junior Clinical Fellow in Nephrology at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, where you'll be immersed in an esteemed department with a strong national reputation. This role offers an invaluable opportunity for career advancement, potentially paving the way for future training posts with Health Education England.
Based at Lister Hospital in Stevenage, this fixed-term position spans 12 months, providing a full- time commitment. As part of our team, you'll engage in a 1:7 middle-grade rota, ensuring comprehensive coverage of our Nephrology Unit.
Main duties of the job
To provide general medical care within the department in close co-operation with colleagues and other specialties
To provide emergency general medical care within the on-call rota
To participate in the department's teaching, audit, and educational activities
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Job description
Job responsibilities
In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Hold a current licence to practice from the General Medical Council
Desirable
- Advanced Life Support Certificate or equivalent.il
Knowledge
Essential
Previous Experience
Essential
- 12 months experience working in Medicine at Core Level or equivalent.
Desirable
Fitness to Practice
Essential
- Up to date and fit to practice safely and aware of own training needs.
- Evidence of engagement with appraisal and revalidation
Skills
Essential
- Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors
- Able to show situational awareness and application of good decision making
- Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
- Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
Desirable
- Ability to teach clinical skills
- Experience in organising educational activities
Other requirements
Essential
- Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity, and inclusion
- Role model our trust values every day
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Hold a current licence to practice from the General Medical Council
Desirable
- Advanced Life Support Certificate or equivalent.il
Knowledge
Essential
Previous Experience
Essential
- 12 months experience working in Medicine at Core Level or equivalent.
Desirable
Fitness to Practice
Essential
- Up to date and fit to practice safely and aware of own training needs.
- Evidence of engagement with appraisal and revalidation
Skills
Essential
- Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors
- Able to show situational awareness and application of good decision making
- Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
- Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
Desirable
- Ability to teach clinical skills
- Experience in organising educational activities
Other requirements
Essential
- Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity, and inclusion
- Role model our trust values every day
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
