Junior Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine

Job summary

We are delighted to present this opportunity to join our growing Emergency Department in South Yorkshire seeing 90,000 patients per year. We are a friendly District General Hospital and Trauma unit caring for both adults and children. These posts offer an opportunity to consolidate experience in Emergency Medicine. The rota is self-rostered, 1 in 3 weekends, no nights, latest shift finish 1am and with 25% of paid time available to develop specialised interests to help build the career that you want. Options for that time include with our highly rated Medical Education team, Ultrasound, Quality Improvement and as part of our work towards Green ED accreditation. For those unsure whether Emergency Medicine or GP is the future your time can also be spent working with our friendly Out Of Hours GP team. We will also consider bespoke support for other interests or projects, which develop your career.

We have 17 enthusiastic Consultants keen to provide shop floor teaching and long term Educational Supervision as you continue to develop. Our team of clinicians includes an F2, GP STRs, ACCS CT1s, EM HSTs, CESR Doctors and a fantastic cohort of ENPs and ACPs. We also have a Consultant dedicated to Medical Education who provides bookable time for supervision and guidance on and off the shop floor to really take your skills to the next level.

If you would like to discuss this further please email Dr Matt Stafford at matt.stafford1@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

Facilitate patient assessment, treatment and admission within the Emergency Department.

Facilitate patient discharge.

Liaison with other specialties and agencies including Primary Care within this process.

Requesting diagnostic tests (such as X-Ray and laboratory investigations) and taking biological samples, manually and through the Trusts computerised systems.

Act in accordance with the policies of the Emergency Department and the Trust and seek advice and assistance from the Consultants when necessary.

Ensure accurate and complete documentation is undertaken for all patient records in line with Trust protocols. This includes coding of clinical information.

Undertake consultations with relatives concerning patients when appropriate, maintaining confidentiality at all times.

When necessary accompany patients being transferred from the Emergency Department to other areas e.g. radiology department for CT or Intensive Care.

Communicate effectively with other healthcare professionals in and out of the Trust (e.g. specialty teams, GPs) about patient care when appropriate.

Job responsibilities

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust (TRFT) is a combined acute and community Trust serving our local population of around 270,000 people. Our vision is to always act the right way and be proud to provide exceptional healthcare to the communities of Rotherham.

As a Trust we are on a journey to excellence and our people and culture are at the heart of everything we do for patients. In the latest NHS Staff Survey, we are the second most improved Trust in England for would you recommend the Trust as a place to work? and were one of the most improved for staff engagement overall.

But dont just take our word for it each year hundreds of colleagues receive nominations for our Excellence and Proud awards, showcasing our brilliant people and recognising their achievements. Our people make a difference to the lives of patients every day and we are proud of the improvements we are making.

All of our 5,100 colleagues are key to our improvement journey and we are continuing to improve our services by upholding the Trusts values of Ambitious, Caring and Together. If you are passionate about making a difference, then please apply to join us on our journey to excellence.