Senior Clinical Fellow

at  Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust

There are various posts that have become available for 12 months initially with a possible further extension as a Clinical Fellow in various Paediatric medical specialties in at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. Posts are available at ST4+ depending on the level of experience of the applicant. There may be an opportunity to rotate within the 12-month period, but this is not guaranteed and based on service need and requirements of the Trust.
Assist in the care of inpatients or shared care patients, and day cases, including planning admission, investigations, management, and follow-up. There will be opportunity to attend consultant led clinics.
Undertake initial assessment of new ward referrals and formulate differential diagnoses, investigations and management plan in liaison with the consultant of the week.
Participate in daily ward rounds of specialty patients and those referred for specialist consultation & advice by other teams.
Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings with a range of specialties through the working week. Also join MDTs arranged for individual complex patients.
Share duties with the other junior doctors and be part of the junior specialty team. Carry the specialty bleep on rotation with other JD as the first point of contact for advice for the specialty. Triage and receive calls from inpatient teams, local general practitioners and from secondary care across the Northwest for specialist advice. Discuss cases with the consultant of the week and feedback advice, recommended investigations, and management.
Depending upon your clinical competency there will be clinical fellow positions available at ST4 + level. You will be expected to contribute to the ST4+ on-call rota.
As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.
We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.
Inpatient and consult work
Inpatient care and Outpatient clinics
Assist in the care of inpatients or shared care patients, and day cases, including planning admission, investigations, management, and follow-up. There will be opportunity to attend consultant led clinics.
Undertake initial assessment of new ward referrals and formulate differential diagnoses, investigations and management plan in liaison with the consultant of the week.
Ward rounds
Participate in daily ward rounds of specialty patients and those referred for specialist consultation & advice by other teams; there will be opportunity to gain expertise in specific areas of various specialist medicine and this can be discussed with the successful candidate
MDTs
Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings with a range of specialities through the working week (this may involve contributing to the discussion, providing background history and investigation results and making notes of the discussion and outcome). Also join MDTs arranged for individual complex patients.
Receipt of referrals and advice
Specialty bleeps
Share duties with the other junior doctors and be part of the junior specialty team. Carry the specialty bleep on rotation with other JD as the first point of contact for advice for the specialty. Triage and receive calls from inpatient teams, local general practitioners and from secondary care across the Northwest for specialist advice. Discuss cases with the consultant of the week and feedback advice, recommended investigations, and management.
On-call out of hours duties
Depending upon your clinical competency there will be clinical fellow positions available at ST4+ level only. You will be expected to contribute to the ST4+ on-call rota. Out of hours shifts include long days (09:00-21:30) and night shifts (21:00-09:30) including weekends. On the ST4+ rota additional out of hours shifts include evening shifts (16:00-23:00) Monday to Friday, and short-day shifts (08:00-16:00) at weekends.
Please find below the individual roles and responsibilities expected at ST1-3 and ST4 level

Please refer the Job description for details