Senior Clinical Fellows in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

at  Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham Children’s Hospital is currently recruiting for a Senior Clinical Fellow (ST4 – ST7) in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, available to commence in August/September 2024 for a duration of 6-12 months.
The post-holders will be an integral part of the clinical team and will carry out the following duties:
Reception, examination, diagnosis, resuscitation, treatment and management of patients in the Emergency Department until appropriate transfer to inpatient facility or discharge home. This includes both medical and trauma patients.
Supervision of more junior medical staff in the Emergency Department.
Participation in the Trust Major Incident Procedure.
Participation in delivering teaching to undergraduate students attached to the Department.
Attendance at departmental meetings as appropriate.
Participation in annual NHS appraisal.
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children’s Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women’s Hospital is one of two dedicated women’s hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
The following opportunities are available in the department during your job, and we welcome candidates who are keen and willing to help progress the department, or relationships around the department.
Education/Simulation – Dr Kate Edgworth is the Education Lead and runs an active education programme for all clinicians. There is daily teaching including simulation and radiology. Clinics for SLE’s run on a Monday afternoon.
Trauma – Dr Tina Newton is the Trauma lead for the trust and is an ED PEM consultant. We are the Paediatric Major Trauma Centre for the West Midlands. Candidates are expected to have an interest in trauma management, and it is desirable to have ATLS or other equivalent trauma qualifications.
Research – working with Dr Stuart Hartshorn, ED Lead for Research and a Clinical Trials Scholar at the Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, University of Birmingham stuart.hartshorn@nhs.net , and if interested any candidate will be supported to develop and complete a research project in PEM.
QI/Management – working with Dr Anand Kanani ( anand.kanani@nhs.net ) runs active audit and QI projects in the department. For those who want experience in higher level QI management, opportunities will be given to complete projects that candidates have an interest in, or guided to suitable projects.
We pride ourselves on our friendly links with the rest of the hospital and, alongside working with the ED nursing staff, Emergency Nurse Practitioners and the newly expanded team of PEM consultants, fellows will be encouraged to work with other teams and specialties in the hospital relevant to their interests

Please refer the Job description for details