Clinical Teaching Fellow in Paediatrics
| Posting date: | 02 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £65,048.00 to £73,992.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £65048.00 - £73992.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 April 2026 |
| Location: | Reading, RG1 5AN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9193-26-0220 |
Summary
Paediatrics The Royal Berkshire Hospital Paediatric Department covers a large child population of around 125,000 and 5,800 deliveries. Dingley Specialist Childrens Centre provides multidisciplinary community services alongside experienced allied health professionals and specialist nurses. We cover the West of Berkshire which includes Wokingham, Reading and West Berkshire. The paediatric department consists of 2 children's inpatient wards (Lion & Dolphin) consisting of 5 HDU beds and 39 beds/cots Kempton (Paediatric) Day Assessment Unit consisting of ten beds Paediatric Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) bay Local neonatal unit (Buscot ward) for babies >27 weeks gestation and 800g birthweight 20 cots including 3 intensive care and 5 high dependency cots Paediatric emergency department Children's outpatient clinic Dingley Child Development Centre There are a total of 27 Consultants, 21 in the Acute Hospital setting and 6 Community Based. Main clinical duties of the job Day to day clinical management of children on the two acute childrens wards, Dolphin and Lion, including medical aspects of surgical patients and close liaison with doctors involved from other specialties Cover for paediatric problems on the Paediatric Accident & Emergency Unit. Middle grade cover for the neonatal unit Providing cover for all acute paediatric referrals from any source. Supervision and teaching of the ST1-ST3 doctors on the Acute Childrens Wards and the Paediatric Day Bed Unit. Out of hours, nights and weekends cover both neonatal and general paediatrics. Triage, assess, and manage CYP admitted to SDEC. Responsible for discharge and subsequent care planning of CYP from observation bay to their home, acute ward or other medical professionals.