Junior Clinical Fellow in A&E | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust; Colchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Colchester is seeking an enthusiastic individual for a 12-month position in the Emergency Department. This role involves critical responsibilities in emergency care and offers opportunities for career progression within the NHS. The successful candidate will receive mentorship and support and be a part of a team dedicated to improving patient care. Applications close on 21 Dec 2025.

Benefits

27 days annual leave (pro rata)

Generous pension scheme

Access to NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic, motivated, and committed individual.
• Experience in Emergency Department or similar environments is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Clinically responsible for the reception, resuscitation, diagnosis, and treatment of emergencies.
• Coordinate the hospital's major incident procedure.
• Review ad-hoc returns.
• Provide mentorship and support for career development.

Job description

Clinical

The postholder’s duties will be primarily at Colchester Hospital, but their presence may from time to time be required in other parts of the Trust.

Post

Applications are invited for an enthusiastic, motivated and committed individual to join our friendly team within the Emergency Department at Colchester Hospital. This is a 12‑month fixed term post in the first instance.

Opportunities to gain experience in other specialties such as ITU and/or Anesthetics, Paediatrics, Acute Medicine and Trauma and Orthopedics, allowing an opportunity for career progression and the possibility to apply for the Pathway Portfolio in Emergency Medicine.

Pay: £12.5PAs (of which £1SPA/week).

Therota offers an excellent work‑life balance allowing annual leave spells up to three weeks. Therota also allows protected weekly teaching sessions and a new journal club is being set up by our FCEM consultants.

An allocated mentor within Emergency Medicine, as well as a clinical supervisor when on secondment, will be provided.

Local opportunities to become an ALS and ATLS instructor, as well as full support from all EM consultants to prepare for FCEM, are provided.

Clinical

Colchester ED is a Major Trauma Unit with a helipad in front of the department and has close links with Emergency Department/Major Trauma Centre Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.

The successful candidate will be clinically responsible for the Consultants for the reception, resuscitation, diagnosis, and initial treatment of all emergencies in the main Emergency Department. There is the same responsibility for clinical decisions on appropriate admission of patients to hospital beds for special units or other hospitals, to out‑patient clinics, or to the care of the family doctor.

The post-holder will review ad‑hoc returns.

He/she will share responsibility for coordinating the hospital’s major incident procedure.

General

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

This advert closes on Sunday 21 Dec 2025.