Job summary
- Main area
- Medicine
- Grade
- FY2
- Contract
- Permanent: 8 Hours per day - Monday to Friday
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (40 hrs per week)
- Job ref
- 343-MED-827
- Employer
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Epsom Hospital
- Town
- Epsom
- Salary
- £44439 excl LW
- Closing
- 15/03/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 25/03/2026
Employer heading
Junior Clinical Fellow
FY2
"At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values"
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values
Job overview
This role is for a resident Junior Clinical Fellow delivering high quality medical care for private patients in the Epsom and St Heliers Private Practise Unit (PPU). The post holder will be expected to work as a member of the junior medical staff supporting consultants in both medical and surgical specialities. The role is based at Epsom Hospital, on a full shift pattern comprising of 8-hour shifts from 8.30am-5pm and covering a Friday afternoon clinic from 5pm to 7.15pm when required. At Epsom PPU, the postholder will perform ward rounds independently and under consultant supervision, review patients on admission and whenever else is required, request and follow up on investigations and complete routine clinical administrative tasks such as discharge letters. The Northey Ward and Swift Wards are both Medical and Surgical wards respectively, where the postholder will be expected to support the nursing and consultant team, review patients on admission and complete routine clinical administrative tasks.
The postholder should be qualified with at least 2 years post Foundation Years’ experience and currently working at Junior Clinical Fellow) level. They should be able to manage routine clinical tasks and medical emergencies and hold at least Intermediate and preferably Advanced Life Support accreditation.
Main duties of the job
The Private Patients ward - Northey and Swift work alongside many of the departments within Epsom and St Heliers Trust which you may need to contact when patients are due for a procedure or have been transferred from another department within the Trust.
The post holder will be expected to work as a member of the junior medical staff supporting consultants in both medical and surgical specialities.
Working for our organisation
We are truly an integrated health and care Trust. In simple terms, that means that as well as the services we provide at our acute care hospitals (Epsom in Surrey and St Helier nearby in south west London) we work with local GPs, mental health services, community providers and local authorities, with the joint aim of preventing local people from becoming unwell, and when they do, that they receive the right care, in the right place, with the right support.
So, as well as great hospital care, together we offer an increasing range of services. These include adult community health, sexual health and children's therapies. Many of these community services are run by the partnerships we host, Surrey Downs Health and Care and Sutton Health and Care.
In autumn 2019, as an entire Trust, we moved up to become rated ‘Good’ by the CQC and we seek to continually improve. As part of that, we have secured £500m as part of the government's Hospital Infrastructure Plan to enable us to build a brand new Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Sutton and finish the refurbishment of the existing buildings on the Epsom and St Helier hospital sites.
We are committed to making all of our work places great places to work, with the right support and culture to help you excel. We spoke with more than 3,000 colleagues about what makes a good day at work and as a result introduced a new core value – 'Respect'. And as a result 'Respect' is at the heart of everything we do.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Our RMO/SHO is integral to form part of a rolling rota to provide 8-hour resident medical support at ESTH as well some clinical cover for our PP consultants after 5pm.
- To follow Consultant’s instructions for the specific regime for each individual patient.
- Work with the patient’s multi-disciplinary team to provide holistic patient-centred care.
- To be a continuous presence on the ward, performing ward rounds and checking in with the nursing team at regular intervals
- To attend the morning rounds on the Northey and Swift Wards to discuss patients with the multi-disciplinary team and provide medical updates
- To co-ordinate & prioritise own clinical workload.
- To facilitate timely discharge of patients by prescribing TTAs by 15:00pm the day before planned discharge date to assist efficient bed management.
- To provide emergency medical intervention when required.
- To participate in resuscitation (possessing ALS), cardiac arrest and other emergency procedures as per hospital policy.
- Send medical discharge summaries to GP at the point of discharge.
- To always carry the RMO/SHO bleep to enable contact to be maintained throughout the span of duty.
- To work in full compliance with Clinical Governance regarding untoward incidents, near misses or official complaints, providing written reports and completion of hospital incident forms.
- To participate within clinical audit both locally and nationally, when required to do so.
- Strict adherence and Information Governance and Caldicott principles.
Educational Responsibilities
- Where necessary provide supervision and instruction to other staff in the specific techniques and skills in which the post-holder is highly competent and in the performance of related departmental duties.
- Provide training and informal teaching of other staff in the underpinning knowledge of the specific techniques and skills in which the post-holder is highly competent.
- Be self-motivated and resourceful, developing one’s own personal knowledge, skills, professionalism and expertise so showing evidence of continuous growth and personal as well as professional development.
Management Responsibilities
- Contribute to maintaining an ordered electronic filing and retrieval system and electronic computer database of patients’ recordings (imaging), measurements, reports and attendance details and helping to provide the necessary statistical returns of activity, etc.
- Maintain the capture and storage of clinical data and audit outcomes. Provide any other information that may be necessary from time to time and carry out administrative tasks as required.
- Develop, review and implement local policies and protocols in association with the senior clinical teams
- Actively participate in any Quality Assurance audits, QI projects or research projects taking place within the department
Professional Responsibilities
- Adhere to established policies and codes of practice.
- Attend and be fully compliant with mandatory training.
- Ensure adequate level of Clinical Professional Development
- Comply with the Trust appraisal processes and ensure regular meetings with educational/clinical supervisor.
- Any other duties commensurate with the grade.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR INFORMATION RESOURCES
- Inputs into the computerised system.
- Records test results.
Person specification
Clinical, Management & Administrative Experience
Essential criteria
- Completion of FY1 year in the UK
- Minimum of 4 months working in a Medicine specialty
- Good basic IT skills
- Reliable work record
Desirable criteria
- 2 years NHS experience
Teaching, Research & Clinical Governance
Essential criteria
- Understanding of clinical governance and participation in audit
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching undergraduates
- Experience in research
- Presentations at post graduate meetings
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Enquiring, critical and flexible approach to work
Language
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mourad Harkouk
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07721 241522
- Additional information
For further details or to arrange an informal visit please contact Mourad Harkouk - [email protected]
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