Senior Clinical Fellow in Emergency MedicineNHS

Job summary

The Senior Clinical Fellowis a senior non-training grade doctor who plays a key role in the delivery of high-quality emergency care while providing clinical leadership and operational support within the Emergency Department (ED). Working closely with Emergency Medicine Consultants, senior nursing staff, and the wider multidisciplinary team, the post holder will contribute to the safe, efficient, and effective management of patients attending the department.

In addition to maintaining a substantial clinical workload, the Lead SCF will act as a role model for junior medical staff, supporting supervision, education, rota management, quality improvement initiatives, governance activities, and service development. The role provides an excellent opportunity for doctors seeking to develop leadership, management, teaching, and quality improvement skills alongside their clinical practice.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will assess patients and initiate treatments and management plans. They will be expected to work in all areas of the department i.e. Majors, Resus, Urgent treatment Centre, Paediatrics, Same day Emergency Care and the ED short stay unit. As well as seeing their own patients the post holder will also be required to supervise junior doctors and provide clinical support. They will also provide leadership support in terms of managing flow through the department, and to attend MDT meetings such as safeguarding meetings and clinical governance days.

This post would be suitable for a doctor working at senior registrar level who would be expected to be capable of leading the department overnight and supervise the junior team with on-call consultant support.

Job description

Deliver high-quality emergency care across all areas of the Emergency Department. Provide senior clinical decision-making and support to junior doctors and other healthcare professionals. Act as a clinical lead for designated service improvement, governance, audit, or education projects. Support the induction, supervision, and development of junior medical staff. Work collaboratively with consultants, nursing teams, and operational managers to ensure effective patient flow and delivery of care. Contribute to departmental clinical governance, including incident reviews, audits, quality improvement projects, and guideline development. Participate in departmental teaching programmes and support undergraduate and postgraduate medical education.

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.