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Grade: Junior Clinical Fellows in Paediatrics
Department: General Paediatrics and Medical Specialties
Location: Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow
These Clinical Fellow posts are suitable for candidates ST1 equivalent and above which is relevant for those seeking a career in paediatrics in the future.
This is an opportunity to work in the new Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow which opened in June 2015. You will have the opportunity to work in acute paediatric receiving, the Emergency Department and Medical Specialty areas.
Applicants must have full GMC registration and a licence to practice.
The Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow
In order to provide child, maternal and adult services together on a single site, a new children’s hospital has been built as part of the new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus located in the south of Glasgow, which opened in June 2015.
The Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow, is one of the largest paediatric teaching hospitals in the UK and the largest in Scotland. It provides secondary care for more than 900,000 people resident within the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area, but also tertiary care for the 3million people living across the West of Scotland. There are 17 nationally designated services delivered from the hospital including cardiac surgery, bone marrow and renal transplantation, ECLS and complex airway supported by a 22 bed PICU.
The opening of the new Emergency Department has seen an increase in patient activity, with the centralisation of paediatric emergency care across Glasgow and a formal increase in the upper age limit of attenders to their 16th birthday. The new department now sees over 65,000 attenders/year and has a 4 bay resuscitation area with separate Majors and Minors areas.
All paediatric medical and surgical subspecialties are represented, including general medical paediatrics, cardiology, neonatology, neurology, nephrology, respiratory, endocrinology, gastroenterology, immunology and infectious diseases, dermatology, haematology/oncology, rheumatology, metabolic medicine, audiology, ophthalmology, ENT surgery, orthopaedics, cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery and general paediatric and neonatal surgery. A selection of child and adolescent psychiatry facilities are located within the hospital along with a Child Protection Unit.
The hospital provides the major Undergraduate Paediatric Teaching facility for the University of Glasgow. There is on site clinical audit and research and development support to assist with departmental research projects.
The Radiology Department located within RHC provides ultrasound, CT, MRI and isotope studies on site. All imaging is now digital and accessed through the PACS system.
Diagnostic laboratory facilities are primarily located in a new build laboratory complex on the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus.
These posts provide an exciting opportunity to work within the largest Paediatric Hospital in Scotland. You will be working alongside junior doctors in training and will be provided with the same opportunities as these training grade doctors including access to hospital wide education programmes, educational supervision and the opportunity to take part in audit and Quality Improvement projects.
The posts would offer the opportunity to gain valuable experience in a wide range of paediatric emergency and Acute Paediatric presentations and would be relevant for those seeking a career in emergency medicine, General Practice or Paediatrics in the future.
The successful candidates would work clinically as part of the junior grade rota in either General Paediatrics or Emergency Medicine. Candidates will be able to negotiate placement with the service if you are successful in appointment.
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.