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Clinical Development Fellowships (CDFs)
Full time
Salary scale - £36,472 - £57,349 per annum
Internal Medicine – Acute Medicine
Internal Medicine – Cardiology
Internal Medicine – Care of the Elderly with Perioperative Care and Frailty
Internal Medicine – Diabetes & Endocrinology
Internal Medicine – Gastroenterology
Internal Medicine – Infectious Diseases
Internal Medicine – Respiratory Medicine
Internal Medicine – Stroke Medicine
Come and join our Medicine team as a Clinical Development Fellow and enjoy:
- Work life balance
- Protected quality improvement and development time of averaged one day per week.
- Financial support from the Health Board of up to £1500 for attendance at courses or conferences, or to help with costs for specific Diplomas etc.
- Consultant supervision and consistent support for clinical and development work.
- Opportunity to train in the Scottish Centre for Simulation and Clinical Human Factors.
NHS Forth Valley is seeking to appoint enthusiastic individuals for the posts detailed above. Applications are invited from trainee doctors having recently completed or due to complete UK Foundation Programmes or Core Medical Training/ Internal Medicine Training (July 2022) to apply for the Clinical Development Fellowships (CDFs).
These exciting posts are available from 2nd August 2023 to 6th August 2024, working within a Medical Specialty at Forth Valley Royal Hospital. Please contact Medical Workforce team at fv.medicalworkforcerecruitment@nhs.scot if you encounter any issues downloading the job descriptions.
NHS Forth Valley provides acute services for a population of 310,000 people in Central Scotland. Forth Valley Royal Hospital is one of the most modern and well equipped hospitals in the country. It is situated in Larbert with excellent road and rail links to Stirling, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee.
On the back of a successful Clinical Development Fellow (CDF) programme, we have a variety of CDF placements with developmental opportunities in quality improvement work, management and leadership, undergraduate teaching and the Scottish Centre for Simulation and Clinical Human Factors. The trainees from the current cohort of CDFs have led with roles such as chief resident and demonstrated a phenomenal amount of quality improvement work, establishment of undergraduate teaching programme with recurrent positive feedback and some have laid solid foundations for future NHS leadership. They have or will be displaying and presenting their Quality Improvement work at national conferences and that will be the expectation for you. There is now an established QI forum that you will be part of where you will not only learn the techniques of QI work but also get an opportunity to present.
The CDF programme was created to supplement the existing trainees to support safe clinical care as well as facilitating training opportunities for all. Trainees in the CDF programme have been able to maintain skills in unselected medical receiving while providing excellent continuity for their base teams. Though most clinical time is spent during day time, banding supplement is awarded for evenings and weekends.
Whatever your choice of sub-specialty or development projects, you will become part of a Consultant-led team with appropriate supervision for your development work.
To apply for this post, please visit the job posting on the NHS Scotland Job Train website. Applicants should have full GMC registration and a licence to practise at time of application
You are welcome to contact existing CDFs for more information: Dr Thomas Fenwick, CDF Acute Medicine, thomas.fenwick@nhs.scot and Mary-Beth Patterson mary-beth.patterson2@nhs.scot
For more information please contact:
Dr Alison Mackenzie, Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology, alison.mackenzie@nhs.scot Tel: 01324 567373
Dr Sarah Henderson, Consultant in Geriatric Medicine sarah.henderson1@nhs.scot Tel: 01324 567557
Dr. Iain Morrison, Consultant Gastroenterologist, iain.morrison@nhs.scot Tel: 01324 566841
Please quote reference number 140981 on all correspondence.
Closing date: 20th March 2023
Interview date: To be determined
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.