Senior Clinical Fellow In Emergency Medicine

Are you ready to take on a tier 3 or tier 4 role in Emergency Medicine? Whether you're already working at this level or looking to step up, these positions offer an exciting opportunity to enhance your career in a dynamic, fast-paced specialty.
We offer two tailored pathways:
1. Full-Time Clinical Emergency Medicine Role:
Take on a full-time clinical role, with non-clinical time allocated according to RCEM guidelines, ensuring you have the balance needed for development and growth.
2. Senior Clinical Fellow with Special Interest:
For those seeking to delve deeper into a specialized area, this option allows you to dedicate at least 20% of your time to a focused project or special interest. Whether it's education, quality improvement (QI), wellbeing, frailty, or I.T., we provide opportunities to explore a variety of fields. Have another area of interest? Let's discuss how we can support it. You'll be paired with an FRCEM Consultant aligned with your chosen specialty to guide and support your work. You'll also be encouraged to showcase your project at regional or national conferences., As a Senior Clinical Fellow, you'll play an important role in our Emergency Department (ED), working at the registrar level across all areas of the department. You'll have the chance to lead teams, manage critical areas, and take charge of the entire ED, ensuring a hands-on leadership experience in a high-pressure environment.
Clinical and Leadership Experience:
+ Full Rotational Exposure: Work across the full breadth of the ED, including resus, majors, minors, and paediatrics.
+ Leadership Opportunities: Develop your leadership skills by guiding small teams and taking command of the ED, preparing you for senior roles in the future.
Non-Clinical Development:
Your non-clinical work will be equally fulfilling, with dedicated time and office space to focus on a variety of activities, including:
+ Teaching and Mentorship: Participate in and lead teaching sessions, both for peers and junior staff, enhancing your academic and clinical teaching skills.
+ Quality Improvement (QI) and Audit Projects: Contribute to meaningful projects that will shape the future of emergency care, while gaining experience in QI and audit processes.
+ Recruitment Support: Be involved in our ongoing recruitment initiatives, giving you insight into team-building and departmental growth.
+ Access to training opportunities: we have good relationships with various clinics to support exposure to ultrasound, cardioversions and eye casualty amongst others., Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.
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We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.
We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners.
The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.
We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals., We are excited to be advertising a number of Emergency Medicine (EM) Senior Clinical Fellow posts, based in our Emergency Department at Northampton General Hospital.
The post is part of an expansion of our Middle Grade tier of doctors, and is designed for candidates who are working at the level of senior decision maker in Emergency Medicine, or who are ready to take this responsibility and wish to advance their career in this exciting specialty.
Successful candidates will be allocated a supervising FRCEM Consultant with a relevant special interest to support their project and will be encouraged to submit project work for presentation regionally/ nationally.
The successful applicant will begin work at a level commensurate with previous experience, likely to be at ST3-6 (registrar) level. The post holder must be registered with the GMC and hold a licence to practice.
Participation in the Departmental teaching programme will be expected, and you will have a designated Emergency Medicine Consultant supervisor for the duration of your post. Our department consistently receives excellent feedback from trainees regarding the friendly working environment, the approachability and supportiveness of senior staff, and the training opportunities available. The Consultant body has a breadth of experience including sub-specialty interests in Geriatric Emergency Medicine, Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine, Sports medicine, , Education, and Emergency Ultrasound.
Motivated clinicians with sufficient Emergency Medicine experience may also wish to discuss the opportunities available within NGH for specialty training to support an application for entry to the EM specialist register, and enable consultant appointment via the CESR route.
This is not a HEE recognised post, and you will not receive a National Training Number or a CCT.
Job Purpose
The purpose of this post is twofold:
1. To increase the level of middle grade cover within the department.
2. To provide a supportive environment for the motivated candidate to gain middle grade experience and progress their Emergency Medicine career.
The successful candidate would be expected to support the trust's corporate objectives, and to participate in, and be supportive of, the clinical governance structure within the Directorate of Medicine and Emergency Care., The ED has 24/7 middle grade clinical cover with two or more senior doctors present at all times. There is extended consultant cover from 08:00 - 23:00 weekdays, and flexibly 10:00-22:00Hrs weekends & bank holidays. Outside these hours, consultant cover is provided via an on-call system and consultants will attend the department if required.
Post holders in this grade will participate in the middle grade rota. Duties within the Emergency Department will cover the whole range of clinical responsibility for adults and children with emergency problems from minor injuries to major trauma, and minor illnesses through to the critically unwell. You will be expected to lead major cases in our resuscitation room. You will also be responsible for any patients you admit to our Emergency Observation (Short stay) Ward. We also run a weekday ED Review Clinic, your rota will include shifts covering this.
The post holder will be expected to prioritise and time-manage effectively according to the activity of the department. Out of hours, the post holder will be one of the senior doctors present in the department and will be expected to lead the shift, working with the nurse-in-charge to ensure patient safety.
We would encourage the post holder to complete workplace based assessments to allow documentation of their own development and mapping of competencies achieved in line with RCEM curriculum.
Education is an important part of the role. The successful applicant will be expected to receive and deliver teaching. The post holder will receive consultant supervision and have a named consultant supervisor, and may be involved in supporting the training of other staff: medical; nursing; para-medical at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
At Northampton General Hospital we provide general acute services and hyper-acute stroke, vascular and renal services to people living in Northamptonshire. As well as this we are an accredited cancer centre and provide cancer services to a wider population of Northamptonshire and parts of Buckinghamshire.
We are proud to be the first hospital in the UK to have obtained Pathway to Excellence® designated accreditation from the American nurses credentialing centre (ANCC).
We celebrate staff achievements and value the importance of working as one big team. That's why we talk about Team NGH. It's all about working together to provide the best possible care for our patients and supporting each other to grow and develop our skills. We are driven to helping you to be the best you can be.
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities. The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative. We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
Apply today and join the largest family in Northamptonshire.