Post-CCT Fellow in Paediatrics and Neonatology
| Posting date: | 17 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £41,750 - £64,288 + on calls & London Weighting |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 August 2025 |
| Location: | Isleworth, TW7 6AF |
| Company: | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7319047/289-WLCH-13 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
We are seeking to recruit resident doctors to posts at the level of aPaediatric Senior Clinical Fellow (Post-CCT) in General Paediatrics and Neonatology, for a fixed time period of 6 months.
We are an expanding team of consultants with a range of interests to support your clinical and non-clinical development. As a post-CCT fellow you would be providing clinical work as a senior clinical fellow on the full shift tier 2 rota. In addition we would support your specific post-CCT development goals in leadership and management and assist your preparation for future consultant interviews and roles.
All Paediatric SCFs at WMUH work alongside all levels of London Deanery trainees from Paediatrics, as well as from General Practice. All fellows are on a combined rota with trainees and have access to the same clinical and educational training opportunities as the trainees.
Please only apply for this post if you have a CCT in paediatrics or are expecting to obtain CCT within the next 6 months.
Candidates who do not meet the above minimum criteriawill not be shortlisted.
Key Responsibilities
● Provide day to day care for children in partnership with the consultants and the multidisciplinary team (Play therapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Dieticians, Psychology, Physiotherapy, Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) and Child and Mental Health Services – CAHMS).
● Prepare and contribute to Paediatric MDT meetings and journal clubs
● Managepaediatric and neonatalemergenciesas part of the paediatric/neonatal resuscitation team
● To participate in and out of hours rotas
● Contribute to the postgraduate and undergraduate teaching programme
● Participate in audit, guideline development and clinical research within the department
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England.
We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.
• We employ over 7,000 staff and 500 volunteers
• We treat someone in A&E every 90 seconds
• We deliver a baby every 50 minutes
• We operate on a patient every 16 minutes
• We do 50 imaging procedures each hour
• We serve a diverse population of 1.5 million from the beginning to the end of life
Our values
Our PROUD values demonstrate to staff, patients and the public the standards of care and experience they should expect from our services:
• Putting patients first
• Responsive to patients and staff
• Open and honest
• Unfailingly kind
• Determined to develop
• Clinical work includes daily ward rounds in paediatrics and neonates, accurate and timely documentation on the Electronic Patient Record (Cerner), liaising with tertiary specialties by phone and email, leading resuscitations and stabilising critically ill children and neonates prior to transfer to other tertiary units for on-going care, prioritising the clerking, examining and managing of all patients in the extremely busy paediatric emergency department, as well as leading clinical shifts in paediatrics, in the paediatric emergency department (PED) and on the neonatal unit, out of hours.
The post-CCT role is ideally suited to those doctors wanting to build on their excellent clinical skills and experience, in an environment where they will be supported to step up and develop further as a clinical leader.
This advert closes on Thursday 31 Jul 2025
We are seeking to recruit resident doctors to posts at the level of aPaediatric Senior Clinical Fellow (Post-CCT) in General Paediatrics and Neonatology, for a fixed time period of 6 months.
We are an expanding team of consultants with a range of interests to support your clinical and non-clinical development. As a post-CCT fellow you would be providing clinical work as a senior clinical fellow on the full shift tier 2 rota. In addition we would support your specific post-CCT development goals in leadership and management and assist your preparation for future consultant interviews and roles.
All Paediatric SCFs at WMUH work alongside all levels of London Deanery trainees from Paediatrics, as well as from General Practice. All fellows are on a combined rota with trainees and have access to the same clinical and educational training opportunities as the trainees.
Please only apply for this post if you have a CCT in paediatrics or are expecting to obtain CCT within the next 6 months.
Candidates who do not meet the above minimum criteriawill not be shortlisted.
Key Responsibilities
● Provide day to day care for children in partnership with the consultants and the multidisciplinary team (Play therapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Dieticians, Psychology, Physiotherapy, Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) and Child and Mental Health Services – CAHMS).
● Prepare and contribute to Paediatric MDT meetings and journal clubs
● Managepaediatric and neonatalemergenciesas part of the paediatric/neonatal resuscitation team
● To participate in and out of hours rotas
● Contribute to the postgraduate and undergraduate teaching programme
● Participate in audit, guideline development and clinical research within the department
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England.
We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.
• We employ over 7,000 staff and 500 volunteers
• We treat someone in A&E every 90 seconds
• We deliver a baby every 50 minutes
• We operate on a patient every 16 minutes
• We do 50 imaging procedures each hour
• We serve a diverse population of 1.5 million from the beginning to the end of life
Our values
Our PROUD values demonstrate to staff, patients and the public the standards of care and experience they should expect from our services:
• Putting patients first
• Responsive to patients and staff
• Open and honest
• Unfailingly kind
• Determined to develop
• Clinical work includes daily ward rounds in paediatrics and neonates, accurate and timely documentation on the Electronic Patient Record (Cerner), liaising with tertiary specialties by phone and email, leading resuscitations and stabilising critically ill children and neonates prior to transfer to other tertiary units for on-going care, prioritising the clerking, examining and managing of all patients in the extremely busy paediatric emergency department, as well as leading clinical shifts in paediatrics, in the paediatric emergency department (PED) and on the neonatal unit, out of hours.
The post-CCT role is ideally suited to those doctors wanting to build on their excellent clinical skills and experience, in an environment where they will be supported to step up and develop further as a clinical leader.
This advert closes on Thursday 31 Jul 2025