Senior Clinical Fellow - Emergency Department

Transformation Unit; Wolverhampton; Hybrid; GBP 61,000 - 74,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is seeking a Senior Clinical Fellow to join the Emergency Department at New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton for a 12-month fixed-term contract. The role is full-time (40 hours per week) with on-call duties as required.

The post offers exposure to a busy Major Accident Unit serving a diverse catchment and provides opportunities to work within a dynamic directorate alongside Consultants, Associate Specialists and EM nursing staff.

Qualifications

• Minimum 24 months experience in Emergency Medicine.
• GMC registration is required.
• A Medical Degree is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality clinical care in a busy Emergency Department.
• Participate in on-call duties as required.
• Contribute to departmental governance and quality improvement.

Skills

Emergency Medicine

Clinical teamwork

Education

Medical Degree

GMC registration

Job description

Main area Emergency Medicine Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow Contract 12 months (12 Month Fixed Term Contract) Hours Full time - 40 hours per week (plus on calls) Job ref 225-DIV2-8221542

Employer The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site New Cross Hospital Town Wolverhampton Salary £67,325 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 13/10/2026 23:59

Senior Clinical Fellow - Emergency Department

NHS Medical & Dental: Senior Clinical Fellow

Job overview

The Emergency Department is its own Directorate within Division Two. The Directorate is represented on the Divisional Management Board by the Clinical Director of Acute Services.

Main duties of the job

The Directorate is managed by the Clinical Director, the Clinical Lead, Matron and the Directorate Manager. Directorate Meetings are held weekly which are attended by the above mentioned and the senior medical staff (Consultants and Associate Specialists) and the EM Sisters. The Directorate is responsible for its delivery of clinical care and its budget through the management of its staff and resources. The Emergency Department moved to its current site at New Cross Hospital in January 1996. Its catchment area includes Wolverhampton, South Staffordshire and East Shropshire and consequently it has a varied workload from urban and rural areas as well as a multi-cultural one. Its sees approximately 108,000 new patients a year of which approximately 26% are children under 16 years of age. It is a designated Major Accident Unit and is the 5th largest department in the West Midlands Health Region. With the development of the Trauma Network & the Major Trauma Centres, New Cross Hospital is a designated Major Trauma Unit.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person Specification Essential Essential

• 24 months experience in Emergency Medicine
• Research and publications

Person specification

Qualifications

• Medical Degree
• Experience in minimum 24 months in Emergency Medicine
• General Medical Council registerable degree or GMC registration

The four partner Trusts of the Black Country Provider Collaborative (Dudley Group NHS FT, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust) are actively working in partnership to deliver a collective vision focused on providing "better, faster and safer care to the population of the Black Country and beyond".

To support these visions, we are actively looking at new models of care which:

• Better protect elective / planned care service delivery across the system by organising on a 'hot and cold' arrangement
• Consider optimal use of resources through consolidation and specialisation, and
• Seeks to reduce unwarranted variance, level up / standardise care through a 'Networked service solution' approach across the four sites

Against this context, although this post is hosted by The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, there may be an expectation to work flexibly across the four partner Trusts to better meet patient and service needs.

Flexible Working

As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.

Qualifications

Please be advised that if the post that you are applying for requires any level of qualification (e.g. A-Levels, Degree etc) or Professional Registration (e.g. Nursing and Midwifery Council, General Medical Council etc) you will be required to provide proof as part of the pre-employment process. By submitting your application you are giving the Trust permission to check the qualification certificates provided back to the source provider. Please note that a sample of all applicant’s qualifications will be checked with the educational institution or provider. Furthermore, a sample of all applicants’ qualifications will be checked back to the educational institution or provider to interview letters to further deter fraud.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.