Junior Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 06 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £49,909 Per annum plus London Weighting |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 July 2025 |
| Location: | Hampstead, NW3 2QG |
| Company: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7262743/391-RFL-7217890-A |
Summary
Junior clinical fellows are required to work at FY2/ST1-2 level at the Royal Free Hospital, London, in the Hampstead site. The post allows doctors to rotate through Acute medicine, Elderly care medicine and Emergency medicine.
This is an ideal opportunity to work in a busy but well supported department with a team of highly motivated consultants and trainees.
The successful applicant will gain experience across a wide variety of the common and rarer medical conditions and will have access to the full range of in-house educational opportunities afforded to other trainees. The consultant body is drawn from a variety of core medical specialities.
The successful applicant will be able to participate in the department’s teaching, audit and educational activities, in addition to specific speciality exposure if desired.
The post holder will participate in the teaching and training of the medical students & elective students during their placements. The department has an appointed a Clinical teaching Fellow to coordinate and enable delivery of educational & training needs for junior doctors working in the department. Candidates will be able to participate in audit and quality improvement under the guidance of a supervisor.
There is a weekly teaching programme alongside weekly SIM training and shop floor teaching opportunities led by senior medical staff. JCF’s are expected to attend these similar to FY2 and CT1 trainees. Consultant cover is provided to support juniors in resus, injuries, trauma and acute emergencies from 8am to 11am in conjunction with a senior tier of 22 registrar grade doctors to supervise and mentor CT1 equivalent doctors.
Post holders will have equal standing to ED Trainees within the Department. Each post holder will be assigned an Educational Supervisor. Study, and other, leave entitlement is as found in Trust policies.
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.
Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top
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The department accepts adult and paediatric patients and is a designated trauma unit. The post holder will be supervised by senior decision makers 24/7. They will be expected to see resus patients, majors and minors type patients as well as paediatric patients.
Training in paediatric emergencies is embedded into induction and the teaching programme. A team of pediatric consultants manage the senior tier rota with 24/7 presence in the hospital. Additionally, two Paediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) Consultants oversee the Paediatric Emergency Department who work alongside ED registrars trained in PEM to offer training and support to the postholder whilst working in our PEM area. This post offers the chance to learn about PEM and improve skills in paediatric medicine.
Junior clinical Fellows are allocated 2 hours per week of paid Self Development Time in line with CT1doctors in training.
This post is useful for doctors needing competencies in ACCS /Emergency Medicine training. We consider them developmental so encourage work-based assessments, enrolling for an e-portfolio or doing exams.
When on duty the Clinical Fellow, with other more senior Emergency Medicine speciality trainees, assists the Consultants in direct patient management and supervising the work of the junior (FY2) medical staff. We all work hard but are very supportive and keen to help progress careers.
This advert closes on Friday 20 Jun 2025