Senior Clinical Fellow in Paediatrics

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 66,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK seeks a Senior Clinical Fellow in Paediatrics to join the Paediatric team. This role involves managing paediatric patients, delivering care in neonatology, and supervising junior trainees. Candidates must hold a GMC license, an APLS certificate, and have significant experience in paediatrics. Offering competitive salary and opportunities for flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Hold a current licence to practice from the General Medical Council.
• Advanced Paediatric Life Support Certificate or equivalent.
• MRCPCH (Member of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health).
• Experience of working in paediatrics and neonates for at least 3 years.

Responsibilities

• Manage paediatric patients during their hospital stay.
• Deliver care to Newborns in the Neonatal Services.
• Participate in outpatient clinics under supervision.
• Engage in teaching, audit, and educational activities.

Skills

Clinical governance engagement

Decision making

Supervision experience

Teaching clinical skills

Organizing educational activities

Education

Current licence to practice from GMC

Advanced Paediatric Life Support Certificate

MRCPCH

Job description

Senior Clinical Fellow in Paediatrics

The closing date is 14 December 2025

The appointee will join the Paediatric team at middle grade level, rotating between General Paediatrics and Neonates. The appointee will take part in outpatient clinics under the supervision of the consultant team and supervise the work of the junior trainees. Working patterns and timetables will be equivalent to those expected of the training grade registrars. This includes normal day work, weekends and nights.

Main duties of the job

• Managing paediatric patients throughout their hospital stay
• Delivering care to Newborns in the Neonatal Services
• Delivering care to the NICU/SCBU, labour ward & post-natal
• Assessment of referred babies
• The review of all babies as needed
• Review of protocols as part of the team
• The appointee will be expected to work flexible across the service as required, as and when service needs change
• To take part in outpatient clinics under the supervision of the Consultant Paediatricians
• To participate in the department's teaching, audit and educational activities

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.

Qualifications

• Hold a current licence to practice from the General Medical Council
• Advanced Paediatric Life Support Certificate or equivalent
• MRCPCH (Member of Royal college of Paediatrics and Child Health)

Knowledge

• Experience of audit

Experience

• Experience of working in paediatrics and neonates atleast for 3 years
• Competencies equivalent to completion of ST3 (Registrar) in Paediatrics
• Recognition of and ability to undertake the initial management of an acutely ill patient
• Ability to apply sound clinical knowledge and judgement to problemsNHS experience

Fitness to Practice

• Up to date and fit to practice safely and aware of own training needs
• Evidence of engagement with appraisal and revalidation

Skills

• Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors
• Able to show situational awareness and application of good decision making
• Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
• Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
• Ability to teach clinical skills
• Experience in organising educational activities

Other Requirements

• Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
• Role model our Trust values every day

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

£65,048 a year1:7 Neonates Rota and/or 1:10 General Paediatric