Senior Clinical Fellow in Paediatrics

There is a wide range of teaching opportunities including development of undergraduate training, regular simulation programmes/ courses, acute and specialist paediatric multi-disciplinary teaching. The post holders will be working alongside London deanery trainees and trainees from General Practice, Paediatrics and Emergency Medicine backgrounds and will have access to all the same educational opportunities. The post holders are encouraged to keep an e-portfolio and will have an allocated educational supervisor.

Please refer to job description and person specification attached

Even though these posts are not recognised for training by London Deanery they provide excellent training opportunities. You are expected to keep a training portfolio, to have regular assessments with an allocated educational supervisor and to demonstrate progression in the field of Paediatrics during your tenure. Please note, the advert may close earlier should we receive high volume of interest. Interviews will take place shortly thereafter.

We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East. We have over 6,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the best preforming Trusts in the country. We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff say they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good'. We've also been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating for 'use of resources' by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children's unit at West Middlesex - in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.

Education and Qualifications

Essential: - MB BS or Equivalent; - Full GMC/medical registration

Desirable: - BSc; - MRCPCH

Experience

Essential: - Completed Foundation training or equivalent

Desirable: - Previous Paediatric or Emergency Medicine experience; - Teaching qualification

Skills and knowledge

Desirable: - Child protection experience/training; - EPLS or APLS; - Competent in full range of paediatric practical skills