Senior Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine 80:20 Research Fellowship

Senior Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine 80:20 Research Fellowship

Employer: University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW)
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Salary: Competitive
Closing date: 12 Apr 2025

Job summary
Senior Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine (ST4+) - 80:20 Research
If your interest lies in research, you will:

• Join an internationally recognised interdisciplinary research team
• Be presented with opportunities to get involved in research across the Emergency Care portfolio including pre-hospital care, resuscitation, workforce, paediatrics and dementia
• Contribute to literature searching, patient recruitment, data collection and analysis
• Have the opportunity to present a poster at a national conference
• Enhance and broaden your experience and CV

The senior clinical fellow posts include 80% time working in the adult emergency department and 20% paid time to develop in a specialist interest of the successful candidate's choice. The posts are open as OOPT/E for EM HSTs and as stand-alone posts for non-trainees, and can be 100% EM if required.

The posts provide an ideal opportunity for the successful candidates to develop their own specialist interests while working in a busy inner city university hospital, with teaching and research responsibilities and are based in the adult side of the department.

Main duties of the job
Clinical:
The reception, diagnosis and emergency treatment of patients presenting to the adult Emergency Department. The successful candidate will be given supervision and support from senior medical staff to develop competency in the autonomous clinical management of these patients whilst ensuring patient safety.

Managerial:
The management responsibility of the post holder will be to the Clinical Director who is responsible to the Chief Executive and Trust Board.

Clinical Audit and Clinical Governance:
The post holder must be aware of clinical governance and clinical risk management and take an active part in their implementation, including audit.

On-Call Commitment:
In ED the roster is a full shift system. Shifts are a balanced mix of earlies, mids, lates, and nights.

Person Specification
Education and Qualifications:
Essential:

• Registered with General Medical Council (UK)
• At least 24 months full-time hospital service as a trainee in the Foundation Medicine and a further 36 months full time equivalent hospital work (ideally EM based). No unexplained career gaps
• Advanced Life Support provider
• Previous experience of working in critical care in the British Healthcare system (not observing)
• Specialist Interest intent and evidence of interest

• Previous Anaesthetic experience - ideally with RCoA basic sign off.
• Intermediate EM/ MRCP/MRCS (Part 1) or equivalent
• Other membership, fellowship or diplomas

• Able to assess, resuscitate and stabilise acutely sick patients
• Able to participate as key member of cardiac arrest team
• Demonstrates good clinical judgement
• Completed specialist skills courses (e.g. difficult airways, ATLS/APLS, ultrasound course, etc)
• Understands audit and governance processes

• Designed and / or completed audits

• Ability to organise and prioritise workload
• Good communication skills
• Honesty and reliability
• Ability to work effectively within a team
• Flexibility
• Inquiring and critical approach to work
• Demonstrates initiative
• Appropriately assertive
• Ability to gain confidence of both staff and patients

• A willingness to undertake additional clinical duties when necessary, including cover for colleagues on leave

• Evidence of entitlement to live and work in the UK.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.