Senior Clinical Fellow

This role of Senior Clinical Fellow is based in General Medicine on ward G10. Successful candidates will be expected to attend the ward each day and provide support for patients and Resident Doctors in a senior capacity. This will be in the form of senior decisions, giving advice to residents, covering board rounds, providing a management plan for patients, working as a team to deliver the patient management plans, supervising and teaching more junior staff, liaising with the multidisciplinary teams, organising diagnostics etc.

The role could either be a Full Shift Rota with Nights and On Calls or a Normal Working Day Rota (Monday to Friday 9-5).

Please see Job Description and Person Specification attached for full details.

We will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

• General ward work and on-going care of in-patients.
  • Support and supervise foundation year trainees
• Maintenance of ward lists.
• Handover of patients to on call and hospital at night teams.
• Consultant ward rounds.
• Attendance at MDTs and board rounds.
• Attend outpatients
• On call as per rota including night shifts.
• Participate in ward and medical directorate clinical governance
• Issue death certificate and provide statement for coroner's referral or evidence

Please see Job Description and Person Specification attached for full details.

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?

The department of Medicine is run on an integrated acute medicine and care of the elderly ward-based system, with most wards having at least three consultants, two Specialty Registrars, three Specialty Registrars/F2 trainees and three F1 trainees. F1 trainees are regularly rostered to clerking shifts on AAU under the supervision of the physician of the day. In the evenings and at weekends medical wards are covered by two F1 trainees, with support from the rest of the on-call team. At night the hospital is covered by a hospital at night team run by the specialist registrar and including F2 trainees and enhanced trained nurses. F1 trainees no longer work at night within the hospital. Formal handover to the hospital at night time is an important component of the post for the on call F1 trainees.

Each ward has their own ward-based team of juniors including combinations of FY1, FY2, ST1 and ST2 trainees. Each ward also has ward based StR(s) and a combination of medical and COE consultants. The division runs a 'physician of the day' system, to cover the acute on call and provide a daily post take ward round of those admissions not retained in AAU or the short stay facilities.

Each ward operates a daily consultant multidisciplinary red to green board round to facilitate early discharge and to ensure all patients have daily consultant input.

Our Acute Admissions Unit (AAU) is in operation and comprises of short stay trolleys and a dedicated Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) area.

Please see Job Description and Person Specification attached for full details.