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Job summary

Main area
Emergency Medicine
Grade
MT03
Contract
12 months (Fixed Term)
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week
Job ref
391-NMUH-7311473
Employer
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
North Middlesex University Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£49,909 Basic salary +Rota Allowances + London weighting
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/07/2025 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Junior Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine

MT03

Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community.  This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

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Job overview

Junior clinical fellows are required to work at FY2/ST1-2 level at the Royal Free Hospital, London, in the Hampstead site. The post allows doctors to rotate through Acute medicine, Elderly care medicine and Emergency medicine. 

This is an ideal opportunity to work in a busy but well supported department with a team of highly motivated consultants and trainees.

The successful applicant will gain experience across a wide variety of the common and rarer medical conditions and will have access to the full range of in-house educational opportunities afforded to other trainees. The consultant body is drawn from a variety of core medical specialities.

The successful applicant will be able to participate in the department’s teaching, audit and educational activities, in addition to specific speciality exposure if desired.

 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will participate in the teaching and training of the medical students & elective students during their placements. The department has an appointed a Clinical teaching Fellow to coordinate and enable delivery of educational & training needs for junior doctors working in the department. Candidates will be able to participate in audit and quality improvement under the guidance of a supervisor. 

There is a weekly teaching programme alongside weekly SIM training and shop floor teaching opportunities led by senior medical staff. JCF’s are expected to attend these similar to FY2 and CT1 trainees. Consultant cover is provided to support juniors in resus, injuries, trauma and acute emergencies from 8am to 11am in conjunction with a senior tier of 22 registrar grade doctors to supervise and mentor CT1 equivalent doctors. 

Post holders will have equal standing to ED Trainees within the Department. Each post holder will be assigned an Educational Supervisor. Study, and other, leave entitlement is as found in Trust policies. 

 

Working for our organisation

NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The department accepts adult and paediatric patients and is a designated trauma unit. The post holder will be supervised by senior decision makers 24/7. They will be expected to see resus patients, majors and minors type patients as well as paediatric patients.

Training in paediatric emergencies is embedded into induction and the teaching programme. A team of pediatric consultants manage the senior tier rota with 24/7 presence in the hospital. Additionally, two Paediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) Consultants oversee the Paediatric Emergency Department who work alongside ED registrars trained in PEM to offer training and support to the postholder whilst working in our PEM area. This post offers the chance to learn about PEM and improve skills in paediatric medicine. 

Junior clinical Fellows are allocated 2 hours per week of paid Self Development Time in line with CT1doctors in training.

This post is useful for doctors needing competencies in ACCS /Emergency Medicine training. We consider them developmental so encourage work-based assessments, enrolling for an e-portfolio or doing exams.

When on duty the Clinical Fellow, with other more senior Emergency Medicine speciality trainees, assists the Consultants in direct patient management and supervising the work of the junior (FY2) medical staff. We all work hard but are very supportive and keen to help progress careers. 

Person specification

Education & professional Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
  • Full registration with the GMC at time of appointment
Desirable criteria
  • Post Graduate (eg MCEM, MRCS, etc)

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Completed and accredited Foundation Year 1 competences
Desirable criteria
  • Emergency Medicine Experience at SHO grade

Skills and Aptitudes

Essential criteria
  • Good Clinical skills and broad clinical knowledge
  • Ability to work well as part of a team
  • Safe care; Clinical knowledge; Clinical Judgement; Practical skills; Work effectively
Desirable criteria
  • ALS, ATLS and APLS
  • Audit skills

Personal Qualities & Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Good communication skills
  • Able to work on own initiative
  • Flexibility
  • Able to work in high intensity shift system
  • Management and administration skills

Royal Free World Class Values

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Others

Essential criteria
  • Able to attend full Trust Induction
  • Able to attend full Emergency Department Induction

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Nursing TimesApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleDisability confident employerTimewise PartnerCare Quality Commission - Requires improvementEnei MemberArmed Forces Covenant

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Adrienn Fricska-Nagy
Job title
ED Clinical Director
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Ghassan Jassim

[email protected] - Consultant in Emergency Medicine 

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