Senior Clinical Fellow (CESR) in Emergency Medicine

Two positions available - Both position will be offered as Fixed Term Contract (FTC) for 12 months, with potential to extend depending on service needs.
We are advertising Senior Clinical Fellow posts, based in the Emergency Department at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich.
The post is intended to provide the clinician with the support and training required to successfully complete all aspects of the CESR process. Our current trainees are doing secondments in ITU, Acute Medicine and Paediatrics to gain relevant educational and competency needs. The programme is for four years to be eligible for specialist registration subject to completion of FRCEM. We are exploring the possibility to have a secondment at our local major trauma centre.
The remaining nine months of the year will be working in our adult emergency department. Our department is well renowned for its training and support. We operate weekly teaching sessions incorporating a monthly journal club, simulation MDT training (with in-situ component), FRCEM mock OSCE and SAQ practice by our FRCEM examiners and supervised US training.
The Consultant body contains current FRCEM examiners, ATLS APLS & ALS instructors and all of whom are level 1 and some Level 2 US trained., Senior Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine
We are advertising Senior Clinical Fellow posts, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to undertake our rotational programme at Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust, based in the Emergency Department at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich.
The post is intended to provide the clinician with the support and training required to successfully complete all aspects of the process. Our current trainees are doing secondments in ITU, Acute Medicine and Paediatrics to gain relevant educational and competency needs. The programme is for four years to be eligible for specialist registration subject to completion of FRCEM.
We are exploring the possibility to have a secondment at our local major trauma centre. The remaining nine months of the year will be working in our adult emergency department. Our department is well renowned for its training and support. We operate weekly teaching sessions incorporating a monthly journal club, simulation MDT training (with in-situ component), FRCEM mock OSCE and SAQ practice by our FRCEM examiners and supervised US training.

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Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream, We are advertising Senior Clinical Fellow posts, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to undertake our rotational programme at Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust, based in the Emergency Department at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich.
The post is intended to provide the clinician with the support and training required to successfully complete all aspects of the process. Our current trainees are doing secondments in ITU, Acute Medicine and Paediatrics to gain relevant educational and competency needs. The programme is for four years to be eligible for specialist registration subject to completion of FRCEM.
We are exploring the possibility to have a secondment at our local major trauma centre. The remaining nine months of the year will be working in our adult emergency department. Our department is well renowned for its training and support. We operate weekly teaching sessions incorporating a monthly journal club, simulation MDT training (with in-situ component), FRCEM mock OSCE and SAQ practice by our FRCEM examiners and supervised US training.
The Consultant body contains current FRCEM examiners, ATLS APLS & ALS instructors and all of whom are level 1 and some Level 2 US trained. The evidence speaks for itself; we have a proven track record of our long term middle grades successfully becoming consultants via the process with the full support of the department, they would be happy to talk to you about this informally. There will be a specifically designed training and teaching package for all successful applicants and there will be a designated Consultant supervisor for the duration of the rotation.
From a clinical perspective these posts will participate in the 24 hour Emergency Department rota. The rotation is initially offered on a fixed term contract for 12 months after which we would envisage an extension on a mutually agreed basis to a 12 month rolling contract.
There is also a capacity to do extra 'bank work' within the ED and our staff are given priority so that we can secure our own trusted staff to ensure no compromise in patient care.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.