Senior Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine
| Posting date: | 27 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £65,048.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £65048.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 December 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds, LS9 7TF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9298-MED-877 |
Summary
Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is one of the largest acute hospital trusts in the country. It provides emergency care in three Emergency Departments with Adult Emergency Departments at St James University Hospital and the Leeds General Infirmary and a separate Paediatric Emergency Department at the Leeds General Infirmary. The Leeds Emergency Department offer 12-month Senior Clinical Fellows posts designed to provide individually tailored experience and training for those who want to develop a special interest in Emergency Medicine whilst working in a large teaching hospital and major trauma centre. We provide self rostering for the tier 4 doctors which, from feedback, allows a better work/life balance. LTFT options are available. Our fellowship posts are designed with substantial non-clinical time (40%) to allow for the development of special interests. They are supported by a generous study budget. We will support trainees to complete a relevant PG Certificate during their time with us. At present our core education roles for our adult SCFs include: Simulation This post will allow you to work with an enthusiastic group of consultants with a keen interest in simulation. Your responsibilities will include coordinating an embedded weekly in situ simulation program across both of our adult departments. We run a wide variety of simulations covering all EM presentations including our monthly interprofessional trauma team simulations. An interest in human factors and non-technical skills will serve you well in this post. During your time with us, we will ensure that you have opportunities to develop your own skills as simulation faculty with locally run courses such as Introduction to Simulation and the national Becoming Simulation Faculty course being run at the trust. You will also have the opportunity to empower junior and interprofessional colleagues to work alongside you. Postgraduate Medical Education As the Senior Clinical Fellow in Postgraduate Education you will have dedicated non-clinical time to pursue activities related to postgraduate education, training and supervision. You will work alongside the departments specialty tutors to develop and maintain a positive learning environment for clinicians working in the department. There will be opportunities to get involved in areas including (but not limited to) junior doctor teaching, senior teaching, simulation, induction, FOAM-ed and trainee wellbeing. You will be supported to develop your own educational skill set including teaching and curriculum development. There is a study budget available and we will support you pursue a Post Graduate Certificate in Clinical Education or other relevant course. Undergraduate Medical Education As the Senior Clinical Fellow in Undergraduate Education you will have dedicated non-clinical time for the delivery of scheduled undergraduate education for over 100 senior medical students each year. You will work alongside the departments Undergraduate Tutor to maintain the learning environment and to support the development of students capabilities in performance and practice. You will be expected to teach, support and mentor the students on the shop floor, in the classroom and in a simulated clinical environment. There is also the opportunity to be formally involved in University summative assessment processes. This fellowship prioritises support for you to transform your own capabilities relating to educational theory, feedback practice, simulation and teaching skills. Ultrasound This post will allow you to work with our regional ultrasound lead for Emergency Medicine. You will co-ordinate a local ultrasound specific programme which includes shop floor observation and classroom teaching. You will also have the opportunity to be involved in organising and teaching on our deanery wide Emergency Medicine ultrasound teaching programme. We are also able to support fellowships in areas other than education including: Frailty Emergency Medicine Research Clinical Leadership Digital Health Transformation MAJAX and Major Incident Management Global Health Health Improvement and Inequalities We welcome the development of fellowships in additional areas and would be happy to discuss options with you on application. We would usually interview all interested in any of these posts then provide options based on interview score (ie. highest scorer will get first choice role etc). Please let us know at interview which roles you would be interested in. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED Please see the Person Specification. The posts are adaptable to suit the level of experience of the candidate ranging from ST4 equivalence to post CCT. LEVELS OF RESPONSIBILITY The appointee must have experience in Emergency Medicine and in specialties with relevance to emergency medicine i.e. ACCS specialties, T&O, surgery, paediatrics Applicants must provide information regarding their status from the GMC and/or relevant Royal College at the time of application for the application to be progressed further. The candidate must have completed MCEM/FRCEM intermediate, or equivalent qualification The appointee must be able to demonstrate they have the skills and competencies to work at ST4 level. DUTIES OF THE POST Our Senior Clinical Fellows work alongside our HSTs in Emergency Medicine and Staff Grade doctors on our tier 4 rota. Fellows work across both sites and both adult departments. Previous candidates have had 60% of the post recognised as training time in emergency medicine (OOPT). Trainees applying for out of programme training will be allocated appropriate clinical / educational supervisors and supported to get their required assessments completed and attendance at regional teaching. The individual will have up to 16 hours of non-clinical duties depending on individual development needs. This non clinical time is for the development of the fellows special interest but there is also an expectation that fellows will contribute/ support the departments education, governance and research programmes. For example: Delivery and development of undergraduate education and support of medical students in the department Delivery and development of postgraduate education Delivery of simulation training Development of clinical guidelines relevant to the ED Contributing to clinical governance requirements including quality improvement projects and audit An example rota is seen below. We provide self rostering for our tier 4 doctors which is a flexible rota system. The work schedule below is an example which includes the correct number of shifts that you will be working but not the order you will work them in. The posts are offered on a fixed term contract for up to 12 months in the first instance. The post holder must be registered with GMC and hold a licence to practice. Medical Staff in the Department We have over 50 consultants in the Emergency Department with a wide range of clinical, educational, and managerial interests. These include Dr Anin Dasgupta (Clinical Director Urgent Care) Dr Helen Mollard (Clinical Lead Paediatrics Emergency Department) Dr Sundararaj Manou (Recruitment Lead, Clinical Lead Adults, LGI) Dr Catherine Holmes (Specialty Tutor, EM TPD for Simulation Y&H) Dr Claire Thompson (Speciality Tutor) Dr Andrew Davies (Head of School for Y&H EM training) Dr Dafydd Hammond-Jones (TPD HST West Yorkshire) Dr S Higgins (TPD- ST3- West Yorkshire) Dr Jennifer Russell (Undergraduate Lead, EM TPD for Education Y&H) Dr Mohit Arora (TPD for Ultrasound) Dr Alia Yaqub (Major Trauma Lead - Adults) Dr Rosanne Betton (Major Trauma Lead Paediatrics) Dr Jonathan Jones (West Yorkshire Major Trauma Network Lead) Dr Peter Cutting (Risk and Learning Lead) Dr Tajek Hassan (Past RCEM President, Adult Research co-lead) Dr Najeeb Rahaman (Global EM track, Adult Research co-lead) Dr Alice Downes (Paediatric safeguarding lead, Paediatric Research Lead)