Job summary
- Main area
- Emergency Medicine
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Local Appointment nodal point 5 (MT05)
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (5/8/26 - 3/8/27)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-TD-26-068
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Victoria Infirmary
- Town
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Salary
- £65,048 - £73,992 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Fellows in Emergency Medicine ST3-8
NHS Medical & Dental: Local Appointment nodal point 5 (MT05)
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.
With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.
As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
Our newly expanded Senior Clinical Fellow programme includes the option of full time Emergency Medicine posts as well as 80:20 split posts between Emergency Medicine and a specialist interest.
Do you want to experience the excitement of seeing the full scope of emergency presentations in one of only 12 Emergency Departments designated as an Adult and Paediatric Major Trauma Centre? Are you looking to continue to develop a career in emergency medicine under the supervision of a team of consultants who have consistently delivered excellent training at all levels? Do you want to be part of a highly supportive and friendly team and work in a fast paced, high intensity environment?
We are consistently one of the top Trusts regionally for performance against the 4-hour standard, delivered by focussing on high quality patient care throughout the organisation. In 2019, we won the inaugural Newcastle Hospitals Clinical Team of the Year Award. This combination of high performance, varied case mix and close team working create a unique environment to support your professional development and enjoyment of your job. We have an excellent track record of helping our trust doctors build portfolios which rank very highly in national recruitment and have experience of progressing senior doctors through the CESR route to Consultant level.
Main duties of the job
Our Senior Clinical Fellow programme includes posts with the exciting opportunity to have 20% of time dedicated to a specialist interest. The specialist interest posts include sports & exercise medicine, pre-hospital emergency medicine, clinical research, and point of care ultrasound. See more information below.
Whilst working in Emergency Medicine, you will join a team of 29 consultants, 3 specialty doctors, 18 senior resident and higher specialty trainee doctors, 28 other resident doctors, 9 ACPs and over 100 nurses working in the Emergency Department. This post involves a full shift system, involving nights and weekend work. Your primary responsibility will include delivering care to the full spectrum of patients that attend the emergency department and on shift clinical supervision of junior members of the team. You will be a key component of the trauma team and will have the chance to act as the Trauma Team Leader (with supervision). You will use and develop your emergency care skills to resuscitate the most critically unwell patients. Senior clinical fellows in the Emergency Department are supported by resident on-call ED Consultants 24/7.
Working for our organisation
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post provides opportunity for learning, reflection and development.
We aim to ensure that the correct level of competence is achieved, including:
- Development of managing the emergency department, including liaison with senior nursing team
- Resuscitation and major trauma clinical skills
- Supervision and provision of clinical advice to junior medical staff
- Formulating and implementing management plans for patients within sphere of competence in both acute and long-term presentations.
- Refining of procedural skills
- Responsibility for effective communication with other members of the clinical team to ensure the planned management for each patient is carried out.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Primary Medical Qualification.
- Full GMC registration or eligibility to obtain this within 3 months (or within 6 months for non-EEA applicants).
- Completed Foundation Programme or equivalent.
- At least 6 months previous NHS experience.
- At least 12 months experience of working in emergency medicine.
- ALS or equivalent.
Desirable criteria
- Other resuscitation course, e.g. ATLS, APLS, NLS, ETC
- Distinctions. Scholarships, prizes, BSc (or equivalent).
- Anaesthetic & critical care experience.
- Completion of ACCS programme or equivalent
- Completion of CPD activity related to a specialist interest.
Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to independently manage a wide variety of presentations to the emergency department, including initial resuscitation of unwell patients.
- Able to independently perform practical skills required in core emergency medicine work.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of skills developed beyond the core requirements.
- Experience of supervising/providing advice to junior medical colleagues.
- Experience of clinically managing an emergency department.
Management and Administration Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven management and administration ability.
- Committed to share in professional, managerial and teaching responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of advanced management experience, e.g. involvement in complaint response, serious incident investigation, rota management.
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Ability to teach clinical skills.
- Evidence of teaching a multi-professional audience.
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualifications.
- Resus course instructor
Clinical Governance, Audit and Research
Essential criteria
- Experience of audit projects.
- A solid understanding of Clinical Governance.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of participation in quality improvement work.
- Evidence of involvement in research.
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Victoria Cowan
- Job title
- HR Advisor
- Email address
- [email protected]
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