Senior Clinical Fellow(short term)

LEWISHAM AND GREENWICH NHS TRUST; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider in London seeks a Senior Clinical Fellow to join their Care of Older Adult department. This exciting fixed-term position offers a unique opportunity to develop specialized skills in geriatrics while participating in acute medicine. Ideal candidates will have NHS experience and a Post MRCP qualification, and will be supported by an educational supervisor to enhance their career development. Join a vibrant team dedicated to delivering high-quality care to the local community, with access to diverse training opportunities and a commitment to inclusivity.

Qualifications

• Essential NHS experience and Post MRCP qualification required.
• Must have completed core medical training or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Manage patients' medical illnesses under supervision.
• Attend ward rounds and communicate with patients and relatives.
• Participate in training of medical students.

Skills

NHS experience

Post MRCP

General Medicine

Geriatrics

Education

Medical Degree

Postgraduate Training

Job description

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust are offering an exciting fixed-term opportunity to become part of a vibrant, forward-thinking team within the Care of Older Adult department at our Lewisham site. Successful applicants will be able to develop individualised educational goals, including experience within specialty clinical areas which support the Care of Older Adult curriculum. Successful candidates will have access to all teaching opportunities alongside the HEE trainees.

We welcome applicants who are motivated to become part of the Care of Older Adult team, working alongside a dedicated therapy team. During this role, you will participate in the acute General Medicine on call rota.

If you are looking for medical/care of older adult specialty experience, plus the ability to develop sub-specialty interests, then you would be well suited to this position. As a Senior Clinical Fellow, you will increase your level of confidence and you will be supported by an educational supervisor who can help in CV development, with the aim of securing a specialty training post.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a trust with the commitment to deliver the highest standards of acute and ongoing care to our local older adult population. This post is for 4 months.

Main duties of the job

This posts provide an ideal opportunity for a suitably qualified individual looking to develop skills within an active Geriatrics department, while continuing to progress acute medicine experience. The Position will allow the candidate to continue to meet their training and education objectives within their clinical responsibilities. The candidate would take part in the General Medicine Rota with a frequency of (approximately) 1:12 on-calls.

There is also the exciting opportunity to gain experience in a clinic setting in stoke, falls, Parkinson's disease, frailty, surgical liaison and dementia. This post would suit someone who has completed core medical training (or equivalent) but would like further experience to complete exams, or to gain confidence prior to commencing specialty training.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clerk patients admitted on emergency take days

Manage patient's medical illnesses, under supervision

Request investigations / treatments for patients

Take patient histories and carrying out routine patient examinations

Communicate with patients and relatives

Attend and undertake ward rounds and MDT's

Provide cover for colleagues in an emergency and when on annual / study leave

Participate in the training of medical students attached to the Firm

Provide discharge summaries and to promote good liaison with General Practitioners

Although this post does not have a recognised training number, the educational opportunities are the same and can count towards training experience

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Previous NHS experience

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Post MRCP

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

• Locum SCF Job Information (PDF, 200.6KB)
• Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)