Junior Clinical Fellow | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The role is aimed at doctors who have completed Internal Medical Training (IMT), wishing to gain further experience and training in gastroenterology. The successful applicant will coordinate and help to deliver undergraduate training for medical students rotating through the Department of Gastroenterology at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital within Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, as well as provide inpatient and outpatient care under appropriate supervision. This post will also include medical on calls on the GIM registrar rota.

The role will be vacant from January 2025, and a 6 month contract provided to the successful applicant (with the option to extend if appropriate).

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be assigned an educational supervisor and receive training in luminal gastroenterology, hepatology and an aim to receive training in endoscopy. They will receive full exposure to both inpatient and outpatient luminal gastroenterology and hepatology. The successful candidate will be expected to undertake audit, quality improvement and research projects, as well as to attend clinical governance meetings, mortality and morbidity meetings and Multi Disciplinary Team meetings.

The post will involve being a dedicated undergraduate coordinator for medical students from the University of Liverpool. The coordinator would be expected to devise timetables, be an educational supervisor and deliver teaching to medical students.

If there are no suitable applicants with completion of Internal Medical Training, consideration will be given to applicants with completion of Foundation Training only. The timetable would be amended accordingly, with work being ward-based when not coordinating or teaching undergraduates.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospitalis the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women's Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.