Junior Clinical Fellow Nephrology

Job summary

Join our team as a Junior Clinical Fellow in Nephrology at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], where you'll be immersed in an esteemed department with a strong national reputation. This role offers an invaluable opportunity for career advancement, potentially paving the way for future training posts with Health Education England. Based at Lister Hospital in Stevenage, this fixed-term position spans 12 months, providing a full-time commitment. As part of our team, you'll engage in a 1:7 middle-grade rota, ensuring comprehensive coverage of our Nephrology Unit.

Main duties of the job

• To provide general medical care within the department in close co-operation with colleagues and other specialties
• To provide emergency general medical care within the on-call rota
• To participate in the department's teaching, audit, and educational activities

About us

At [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. We run the following hospitals: The Lister Hospital, Stevenage; New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City; Hertford County, Hertford; Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood. We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential: Hold a current licence to practice from the General Medical Council

Desirable: Advanced Life Support Certificate or equivalent

Knowledge

Essential: Experience of audit

Previous Experience

Essential: 12 months experience working in Medicine at Core Level or equivalent.

Desirable: NHS experience

Fitness to Practice

Essential: Up to date and fit to practice safely and aware of own training needs. Evidence of engagement with appraisal and revalidation

Skills

Essential: Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors. Able to show situational awareness and application of good decision making. Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice. Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues

Desirable: Ability to teach clinical skills. Experience in organising educational activities

Other requirements

Essential: Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity, and inclusion. Role model our trust values every day

Additional Information

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.