Junior Clinical Fellow in Burns & Plastics

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Update day: 30-04-2024

Location: Prescot North West

Category: Health / Medical Care

Industry: Staffing Recruiting

Position: Associate

Job type: Full-time

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This post is for a Junior Clinical Fellow in Burns & Plastic Surgery. This is a whole time post offering an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Medic to join a dynamic, rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary acute care in St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals.

The successful candidate will be expected to have full GMC registration at the time of appointment. Candidates without GMC will progress if shortlisted for interview; though will be expected to have full GMC registration at the time of appointment.

Main duties of the job

1st on call 1 in 9 rota and covered by a specialist registrar.

Order blood tests, x-rays and other basic investigations

Prescribe drugs where appropriate

Attend theatre and outpatient clinics

Provide cover for colleagues when on annual or study leave

Complete all paperwork in relation to theatre and clinic attendance

About Us

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the only acute Trust in Cheshire and Merseyside, and one of the few in the entire country, to achieve the title of OUTSTANDING, rated by the Care Quality Commission.

We provide a full range of acute adult services to our local population of circa 360,000 and provide tertiary services across a much wider area in the North West, North Wales and Isle of Man. We are a Major Trauma Unit and the Mersey Regional Burns Unit.

Our ’5 Star Patient Care’ strategy is at the heart of all that we do; supporting our vision to provide world class services for all our patients by getting it right for every patient, every time.

Our Latest Achievements Include
  • Acute Trust of the Year - HSJ Awards November 2019
  • Trust rates Outstanding by the CQC - Inspection August 2018
  • Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers and Health Service Journal)
  • Best acute Trust in the North West for quality of care (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
  • Best place to work in the North West (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
In the NHS Staff Survey 2021 the Trust scored the highest marks in the North West for the following areas;
  • Standard of care
  • Best place to work
  • Care of patients being the Trust’s priority
  • Staff engagement
  • Staff morale
  • Compassionate and inclusive
  • Providing a safe environment for staff
Job Description

Job responsibilities

This list is aimed at covering the majority of duties expected of the role:

Assist the F2 Doctor in the day to day management of inpatients in posts

Liaise between nurses, F2 patients, relatives and senior medical staff.

Attend and participate in ward rounds as timetabled.

Take part in rostered emergency work

In-patients clerking routine and emergency admissions and ensuring that appropriate investigations are carried out

Out-patients attend clinics to assist and for instruction

Study for higher examination and maintain continued professional development

Attend weekly educational and multidisciplinary sessions

Co-operate with members of the HR department when monitoring hours of work and other HR issues

Attend induction in each hospital or new department

Comply with all local policies including dress code, annual leave, study leave, infection control

Person Specification

Essential

Qualifications
  • MB ChB or equivalent medical qualification
  • Basic Surgical Skills, CCriSP
  • ATLS, MRCS or equivalent
  • Full Registration with the GMC
Essential

Knowledge & Experience
  • Experience and an understanding of Audit
  • Evidence of active participation in audit
  • Experience and an understanding of Research
  • Knowledge/experience of managing plastic surgery patients
Desirable
  • Evidence of relevant academic and research achievements
  • Evidence of contributing to teaching and learning of others
Skills

Essential
  • Experience of applying sound clinical knowledge and judgment and prioritise clinical need
  • Experience technical competence/diagnostics skills and judgment required
  • Communication skills, capacity to communicate effectively and sensitively to others, able to discuss treatment options with patients in a way they can understand
  • Validated logbook documentation of surgical exposure to date
Other

Essential
  • Awareness of own limitations
  • Judgement to work under pressure, capacity to work effectively under pressure and remain objective in highly emotive/pressurised situations
BMJRef: BMJ-85747/409-4283727
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Deadline: 14-06-2024

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