Job description

Job responsibilities

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust is pleased to advertise a clinical fellow role aimed at doctors who are passionate about their practice and their career but who want to take time out to develop a special interest. These jobs would also suit doctors who just want to take time out to develop new skills and enhance their CVs. Our posts combine protected time dedicated to your chosen special interest as well as education and career development with practical patient-facing care.

We have a proven track record having first run these posts in 2013; this year sees an expansion in the number and types of clinical fellow roles we can offer.

We are able to support clinical fellows in developing a special interest in the following areas:

Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine in partnership with the Yorkshire Ambulance Service

Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Medical Education

Emergency Medicine Ultra-Sound

Sports and exercise medicine

Medical management and leadership

Research Fellow

The list is not endless and if there is something you are passionate about and wonder how to incorporate it into a career in Emergency Medicine, please come and talk to us about how we can help create the ideal job for you.

These posts are not recognised UK training posts. Nevertheless, MYDoc doctors will have a named supervisor and be supported in undertaking scheduled educational opportunities to consolidate and develop.

An Introduction to the Specialty

The Emergency Medicine Service is delivered on two sites within the Trust with the Pinderfields hospital site designated as a Major Trauma Unit, Dewsbury is a local ED and Pontefract was one of the first Urgent Treatment Centres in England. Our multi-disciplinary team of dedicated and committed professionals provide high quality care and treatment in what is, when combined across the three hospitals, consistently ranked as one of the top five busiest Urgent and Emergency Medicine services in England handling around 250,000 attendances each year.

The majority of our Consultant team have developed special interests and have been given the time to chase their own passions and interests. This allows them to really support our clinical fellows in developing their own special interests as theyve already been there.

Outlined below are some of the things we are proud of as a service:

We are an Associate Teaching Hospital and have won national awards for the quality of our undergraduate Emergency Medicine teaching program.

Were closely involved in the West Yorkshire Acceleration Zone looking at trialling different projects to improve our Emergency Care Standard performance.

Were part of the MERIT programme and take part in regular exercises to practise dealing with major incidents. The last one involved setting up an Advanced Casualty Clearing Station (ACCS) close to a major shopping centre as part of an exercise looking at emergency response for a terrorist incident. Ours is the only region in the country which has a MERIT response like this, meaning we are one of only five acute trusts in the country which undertakes these types of response and sends a team to an ACCS. We do incident training every three years in terms of live exercising and all the ED staff get the opportunity to do a table-top exercise each year.

The Trust has spent the last three years reconfiguring services across its hospitals Pinderfields, Dewsbury and Pontefract one of the largest reconfiguration projects in the country.

Weve been involved in the first few of an ongoing series of Rapid Process Improvement Workshops (RPIW). These have been instigated as part of a new Quality Improvement Process for the Trust and they are based on the world-renowned Virginia Mason lean production methodologies.

We have a great track record in developing our doctors and providing robust educational opportunities for all staff within the service.

The Service Role

These posts will be part of our cross-site trainee rota, which is compliant with working time regulations and the 2016 junior doctors contract, averaging 48 hours per week.

Acute care at Mid-Yorkshire is now focussed primarily on our Pinderfields Hospital site although all our doctors are involved in delivering care to patients on all our sites, with support and supervision from senior colleagues.

The main duties of the post will include:

Provision of care with responsibility for the management of patients presenting to the ED.

Referral of patients to other specialities as appropriate

Dedicated special interest day per week

Involvement in specialty and cross-specialty multi-disciplinary teams and meetings

Involvement in relevant administration duties

Teaching and supervision of junior medical staff and other clinicians as appropriate

Active involvement in audit and clinical governance including service improvement activities

The above list is not intended to be exhaustive and it is likely duties may be altered from time to time in the light of changing circumstances and after discussion with the post holder.

Terms & Conditions and Tenure

Employment will be as a MYDoc Clinical Fellow on Trust Terms and Conditions of Service.

The MYDoc Clinical Fellow posts are initially offered on a fixed term contract for 12 months.

Pay Scale

These roles are equivalent to a doctor on specialty training programmes and will be paid on the equivalent pay scale. The basic salary for this role is £61,825 per annum. Additional payments relating to the rota will be paid on top of the basic salary.

The MYDoc Training Programme Educational Input & Recognition

Doctors appointed to a MYDoc post will receive personalised educational input. Each doctor will be allocated an Educational Supervisor and will develop a Personalised Work Schedule.

Appraisal & Revalidation

This post is not recognised for training and brings with it an obligation to engage with the process of revalidation on an annual basis.

All our Trust appointed doctors are required to engage positively with appraisal and revalidation. The Trust has procedures that comply with national recommendations. As a Trust employed doctor on a fixed term contract successfully appointed applicants will need to have a precribed connection with Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust via GMC Connect and will therefore have Dr Karen Stone the Medical Director at the Trust as their GMC Responsible Officer

Continuing Professional Development

The Trust requires all its doctors to engage with continuing professional development, guided by the relevant professional associations or Royal Colleges. Time and funding is provided according to departmental and Trust policies, subject to approval through the clinical management structures. There is a programme of mandatory training which all relevant staff must complete as required.

Research

Medical staff are encouraged to develop areas of personal and/or research interest. This can be developed in liaison with the Trusts R&D department and in line with prevailing policies and research frameworks. The Trust is developing an expanding and outward-looking research programme.

Educational & Clinical Supervision

The post holder will have a named educational supervisor and be expected to hold regular meetings with them during their tenure to ensure appropriate development during their appointment.

Teaching

The Trust is keen to maintain its reputation for high quality training and to attract the highest calibre of trainee and career-grade doctors. All senior doctors are involved in training our doctors, students and other professions. There are many opportunities to develop training and education roles and many have taken on educational leadership roles within and beyond the Trust.

Audit and Clinical Governance

There is a rolling half-day clinical governance programme and audit meetings are well attended and lively. The Clinical Audit Department assists with setting and supporting an audit programme for the Service with which all colleagues are encouraged to engage. Clinical Audit is considered within objectives as part of job planning.

Job responsibilities

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust is pleased to advertise a clinical fellow role aimed at doctors who are passionate about their practice and their career but who want to take time out to develop a special interest. These jobs would also suit doctors who just want to take time out to develop new skills and enhance their CVs. Our posts combine protected time dedicated to your chosen special interest as well as education and career development with practical patient-facing care.

We have a proven track record having first run these posts in 2013; this year sees an expansion in the number and types of clinical fellow roles we can offer.

We are able to support clinical fellows in developing a special interest in the following areas:

Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine in partnership with the Yorkshire Ambulance Service

Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Medical Education

Emergency Medicine Ultra-Sound

Sports and exercise medicine

Medical management and leadership

Research Fellow

The list is not endless and if there is something you are passionate about and wonder how to incorporate it into a career in Emergency Medicine, please come and talk to us about how we can help create the ideal job for you.

These posts are not recognised UK training posts. Nevertheless, MYDoc doctors will have a named supervisor and be supported in undertaking scheduled educational opportunities to consolidate and develop.

An Introduction to the Specialty

The Emergency Medicine Service is delivered on two sites within the Trust with the Pinderfields hospital site designated as a Major Trauma Unit, Dewsbury is a local ED and Pontefract was one of the first Urgent Treatment Centres in England. Our multi-disciplinary team of dedicated and committed professionals provide high quality care and treatment in what is, when combined across the three hospitals, consistently ranked as one of the top five busiest Urgent and Emergency Medicine services in England handling around 250,000 attendances each year.

The majority of our Consultant team have developed special interests and have been given the time to chase their own passions and interests. This allows them to really support our clinical fellows in developing their own special interests as theyve already been there.

Outlined below are some of the things we are proud of as a service:

We are an Associate Teaching Hospital and have won national awards for the quality of our undergraduate Emergency Medicine teaching program.

Were closely involved in the West Yorkshire Acceleration Zone looking at trialling different projects to improve our Emergency Care Standard performance.

Were part of the MERIT programme and take part in regular exercises to practise dealing with major incidents. The last one involved setting up an Advanced Casualty Clearing Station (ACCS) close to a major shopping centre as part of an exercise looking at emergency response for a terrorist incident. Ours is the only region in the country which has a MERIT response like this, meaning we are one of only five acute trusts in the country which undertakes these types of response and sends a team to an ACCS. We do incident training every three years in terms of live exercising and all the ED staff get the opportunity to do a table-top exercise each year.

The Trust has spent the last three years reconfiguring services across its hospitals Pinderfields, Dewsbury and Pontefract one of the largest reconfiguration projects in the country.

Weve been involved in the first few of an ongoing series of Rapid Process Improvement Workshops (RPIW). These have been instigated as part of a new Quality Improvement Process for the Trust and they are based on the world-renowned Virginia Mason lean production methodologies.

We have a great track record in developing our doctors and providing robust educational opportunities for all staff within the service.

The Service Role

These posts will be part of our cross-site trainee rota, which is compliant with working time regulations and the 2016 junior doctors contract, averaging 48 hours per week.

Acute care at Mid-Yorkshire is now focussed primarily on our Pinderfields Hospital site although all our doctors are involved in delivering care to patients on all our sites, with support and supervision from senior colleagues.

The main duties of the post will include:

Provision of care with responsibility for the management of patients presenting to the ED.

Referral of patients to other specialities as appropriate

Dedicated special interest day per week

Involvement in specialty and cross-specialty multi-disciplinary teams and meetings

Involvement in relevant administration duties

Teaching and supervision of junior medical staff and other clinicians as appropriate

Active involvement in audit and clinical governance including service improvement activities

The above list is not intended to be exhaustive and it is likely duties may be altered from time to time in the light of changing circumstances and after discussion with the post holder.

Terms & Conditions and Tenure

Employment will be as a MYDoc Clinical Fellow on Trust Terms and Conditions of Service.

The MYDoc Clinical Fellow posts are initially offered on a fixed term contract for 12 months.

Pay Scale

These roles are equivalent to a doctor on specialty training programmes and will be paid on the equivalent pay scale. The basic salary for this role is £61,825 per annum. Additional payments relating to the rota will be paid on top of the basic salary.

The MYDoc Training Programme Educational Input & Recognition

Doctors appointed to a MYDoc post will receive personalised educational input. Each doctor will be allocated an Educational Supervisor and will develop a Personalised Work Schedule.

Appraisal & Revalidation

This post is not recognised for training and brings with it an obligation to engage with the process of revalidation on an annual basis.

All our Trust appointed doctors are required to engage positively with appraisal and revalidation. The Trust has procedures that comply with national recommendations. As a Trust employed doctor on a fixed term contract successfully appointed applicants will need to have a precribed connection with Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust via GMC Connect and will therefore have Dr Karen Stone the Medical Director at the Trust as their GMC Responsible Officer

Continuing Professional Development

The Trust requires all its doctors to engage with continuing professional development, guided by the relevant professional associations or Royal Colleges. Time and funding is provided according to departmental and Trust policies, subject to approval through the clinical management structures. There is a programme of mandatory training which all relevant staff must complete as required.

Research

Medical staff are encouraged to develop areas of personal and/or research interest. This can be developed in liaison with the Trusts R&D department and in line with prevailing policies and research frameworks. The Trust is developing an expanding and outward-looking research programme.

Educational & Clinical Supervision

The post holder will have a named educational supervisor and be expected to hold regular meetings with them during their tenure to ensure appropriate development during their appointment.

Teaching

The Trust is keen to maintain its reputation for high quality training and to attract the highest calibre of trainee and career-grade doctors. All senior doctors are involved in training our doctors, students and other professions. There are many opportunities to develop training and education roles and many have taken on educational leadership roles within and beyond the Trust.

Audit and Clinical Governance

There is a rolling half-day clinical governance programme and audit meetings are well attended and lively. The Clinical Audit Department assists with setting and supporting an audit programme for the Service with which all colleagues are encouraged to engage. Clinical Audit is considered within objectives as part of job planning.

Person Specification

Right to work

Essential

• Eligibility to work in the UK

Management skills

Essential

• Demonstrates intelligent and analytical approach to problem solving.
• Good time management.

Desirable

• Possess good organisational skills.

Qualifications

Essential

• Medical Degree from recognised medical school.

Desirable

• Progress towards or attainment of Royal College of Emergency Medicine Exams.
• ATLS,ALS,APLS or PALS certification.
• Higher qualification e.g.MRCEM, MRCP, MRCPG, MRCS, FRCA or equivalent.

Experience

Essential

• Pre-registration/foundation training and appropriate experience in recognised training-grade posts relevant to EM at junior doctor level or above minimum 3 years including adequate experience in Emergency Medicine (i.e. minimum 6 months).
• Notes 1) an otherwise exceptional candidate with excellent critical care/acute care skills might be considered with only 4 months EM experience.

Desirable

• Relevant experience from other specialties.
• Experience of teaching clinical skills.
• Clinical research and development.

GMC Registration

Essential

• Full GMC Registration with licence to practise.
• Please state your full GMC number.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Possesses good communication skills.
• Flexibility.
• Willingness to provide and learn all aspects of hospitals internal systems and processes and adhere to local policies,
• Physically able to carry out the duties as specified in the job description and ability to evidence competencies.
• Disclosure + Barring Service (DBS) Clearance.

Desirable

• Has personal insight into own strengths and weaknesses.
• Ability to contribute to the development of the Trust, the Unit and its services.
• Evidence of multidisciplinary team working.
• Specific educational interests and evidence of educational ideas or project work.

Right to work

Essential

• Eligibility to work in the UK

Management skills

Essential

• Demonstrates intelligent and analytical approach to problem solving.
• Good time management.

Desirable

• Possess good organisational skills.

Qualifications

Essential

• Medical Degree from recognised medical school.

Desirable

• Progress towards or attainment of Royal College of Emergency Medicine Exams.
• ATLS,ALS,APLS or PALS certification.
• Higher qualification e.g.MRCEM, MRCP, MRCPG, MRCS, FRCA or equivalent.

Experience

Essential

• Pre-registration/foundation training and appropriate experience in recognised training-grade posts relevant to EM at junior doctor level or above minimum 3 years including adequate experience in Emergency Medicine (i.e. minimum 6 months).
• Notes 1) an otherwise exceptional candidate with excellent critical care/acute care skills might be considered with only 4 months EM experience.

Desirable

• Relevant experience from other specialties.
• Experience of teaching clinical skills.
• Clinical research and development.

GMC Registration

Essential

• Full GMC Registration with licence to practise.
• Please state your full GMC number.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Possesses good communication skills.
• Flexibility.
• Willingness to provide and learn all aspects of hospitals internal systems and processes and adhere to local policies,
• Physically able to carry out the duties as specified in the job description and ability to evidence competencies.
• Disclosure + Barring Service (DBS) Clearance.

Desirable

• Has personal insight into own strengths and weaknesses.
• Ability to contribute to the development of the Trust, the Unit and its services.
• Evidence of multidisciplinary team working.
• Specific educational interests and evidence of educational ideas or project work.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Pinderfields Hospital

Aberford Road

Wakefield

West Yorkshire

WF1 4DG

Employer's website

https://www.midyorks.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)