Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

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Job overview

Full Time 40 hours per week (1 year fixed term) 

Two posts available.

We are looking for two dynamic Clinical Fellow's to join our Paediatric and Neonatal team at Kingston Hospital. 

Kingston Hospital has an overall CQC rating of Outstanding and we are committed to continue this provision of excellent care by attracting the highest quality candidates to join our team. 

You will be joining a team providing consultant led care in a busy DGH with a substantial NNU. The post enables the provision of consultant led care and supervision for junior and nursing staff 24 hours per day 7 days a week; providing excellent paediatric care in line with the London Quality Standards. 

Please see the job description for greater detail regarding the rota and shift patterns.

Main duties of the job

General paediatric and neonatal inpatient and OPD management.

Collaborative working with general paediatrics and neonates to meet the demands of the service.

To promote close working links with all providers of services for children, particularly within local primary care and the Southwest London Network

To manage a flexible approach to service provision, adapting practice and provision to meet changing needs

To work with consultant colleagues, other medical colleagues and junior doctors, professional and nursing colleagues and local managers to ensure the efficient and effective running of the service

Duties on middle grade rota with on-calls on Paediatric and neonatal level 2 unit.

·         Supervision of and support for junior trainees

·         Collaborative working with all areas of paediatrics extending to ED.

·        Outpatient work load and running rapid referral clinics and opportunity to develop on specialty interest.

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