Senior Clinical fellow

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King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.7 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

Job overview

This is a Clinical Fellow (ST6-ST7 level) in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology to be based at the Princess Royal Hospital site, Kings College Hospital to commence ASAP initially for 6 months with a possibility of extension. Some cross-site working may be required pending further integration across the department.
The remit of the successful applicant will be to participate in the ST6-7 rota, providing and further developing care for women in maternity and gynaecology. King's College Hospital has an enviable reputation for excellence in medical education; and the post holder will be actively involved in supervision, teaching and training of junior colleagues as well as undergraduate medical students.
This post will provide an ideal opportunity to pursue specialist interest training, for example EPAGSU/Emergency Gynaecology; Colposcopy, Ambulatory Minimal Access Gynaecology, Benign Gynaecological Surgery, Reproductive medicine, Advanced Labour Ward Practice, Medical Education.
The post holder will be encouraged to register for and complete relevant training and audits. You will be on-call (with and ST1-2 and ST3-5) as part of the SR rota, which is EWTD compliant.
As an employee of King's College Hospital, you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust's patients.

Main duties of the job

Together with the others to provide Maternity & gynaecology services for women attending Princess Royal University Hospital. This includes all aspects of treatment and relevant management duties required for the proper functioning of the department.
• Shared responsibility with colleagues for providing 24hour, 7 day a week cover for the obstetrics & gynaecology on an on-call rota basis. Responsibility for covering colleague's periods of annual leave and short-term sickness/absence, in line with departmental policy.
• Clinical supervision of other junior medical and non-medical staff.
• Responsible for carrying out teaching undergraduate student, contributing to Continuing Medical Education and clinical governance initiatives.

Working for our organisation

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has an enviable track record in research and development and service innovation. In partnership with King's College London the Trust has recently been awarded a National Research Centre in Patient Safety and Service Quality. It is also a partner in two National Institute for Health Research biomedical research centres. The first is a Comprehensive centre with King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and the second is a Specialist centre with the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Psychiatry. King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has also recently strengthened its research and development infrastructure in order better to support clinical researchers across the organisation.
Our enlarged Trust is located on multiple sites serving the economically diverse boroughs of Bromley, Southwark, Lambeth and Bexley. As a major employer with over 10,500 staff we play an important part in helping reduce local, social and health inequalities. The Trust provides a broad range of secondary services, including specialist emergency medicine (e.g. trauma, cardiac and stroke). It also provides a number of leading edge tertiary services, such as liver transplantation, neurosciences, haemato-oncology, foetal medicine, cardiology and cardiac surgery, on a regional and national basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be aware of, and comply with, all Trust infection prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene, environmental and food hygiene. To undertake annual training/updates in infection prevention and control.
• Excellence within own department/area of responsibility.
• To prepare for and undertake the protective interventions that you are responsible for in a manner that is consistent with evidence-based practice and maintaining patient safety.
• You have a general duty of care for the health, safety and well-being of yourself, work colleagues, visitors and patients within the hospital in addition to any specific risk management or clinical governance accountabilities associated with this post.
• You are required to observe the rules, policies, procedures and standards of King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust together with all relevant statutory and professional obligations.
• You are required to observe and maintain strict confidentiality of personal information relating to patients and staff.
• You are required to be responsible, with management support, for your own personal development and to actively contribute to the development of colleagues.
• The post holder has an important responsibility for and contribution to make to infection control and must be familiar with the infection control and hygiene requirements of this role.
These requirements are set out in the National Code of Practice on Infection Control and in local policies and procedures which will be made clear during your induction and subsequent refresher training. These standards must be strictly complied with at all times.
• All employees must hold an 'nhs.net' email account which will be the Trust's formal route for email communication. You are therefore required to check this regularly and to deal with such communication promptly.

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria

• MBBS or Equivalent
• MRCOG Part 2 or equivalent
• Full registration with the GMC

Desirable criteria

• Experience and familiarity with UK hospital system and practices.

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• Please review the documentation on our recruitment microsite, particularly the Trust's criminal records checking policy
• All staff have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and for ensuring they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
• Due to a high volume of applications, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. It is therefore recommended that you apply promptly

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King's College Hospital is part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC), a pioneering collaboration between King's College London, and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 223.8KB)
• Denmark Hill Site Map (PDF, 1.2MB)
• Princess Royal (PRUH) Site map (PDF, 1.4MB)
• Visa and Sponsorship Information (PDF, 352.6KB)