Senior Clinical Fellow in Paediatrics


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£67,325 - £76,582
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, N19 5NF
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	28 Jul 2026
Closing date:	9 Aug 2026

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Summary

ACUTE GENERAL PAEDIATRICS: All tier 2 (middle grade) paediatric doctors on the general paediatric ward are responsible for the care of babies, children, and young people (CYP) (up to the age of 18 years) admitted to the ward and assessing patients referred by the Emergency Department and GPs and for seeing CYP in outpatient clinics. They are responsible for ward work, keeping thorough, legible notes and discharge summaries as well as participating in the weekly training half days. Experience will be gained in acute and general paediatrics and in the management of patients with sickle cell disease, shared care oncology patients as well as child protection work. The clinical fellow would be expected to both lead and accompany the attending consultant on the regular daily ward round in co-operation with nursing staff and junior trainees. To get to know the patients on the wards and to identify those families with social or psychological problems to be discussed at the weekly paediatric multidisciplinary liaison meeting. In the Emergency Department, clinical fellows are expected to hold the paediatric on call bleep, manage unwell patients, lead paediatric resuscitation calls, supervise junior trainees and work in close liaison with the emergency care nurses and doctors. Duties include: Liaison with nursing staff, parents, medical and support services Liaison with the attending general paediatric consultant Liaison with tertiary units for shared care patients Supervision of ward work and record keeping SBAR handover of patients and their problems to fellow registrars at shift changes Participation in general paediatric clinics Attendance and participation with joint medical meetings and training Medical student and junior trainee teaching NEONATAL UNIT: In the neonatal unit, the clinical fellow would be responsible for the care of babies in the neonatal intensive care unit, special care baby unit, on the postnatal wards and in the labour ward. They are expected to lead neonatal resuscitation calls, lead and participate in ward rounds, neonatal-obstetric meetings, paediatric training meetings, and the weekly neonatal multidisciplinary liaison meeting. They are responsible for completing neonatal discharge summaries. Experience will be gained in advanced neonatal resuscitation, neonatal intensive care and neonatal developmental follow-up in a multi-disciplinary team. Doctors are expected to become proficient in technical skills including umbilical and percutaneous venous lines and cranial ultrasound imaging Clinical duties include: Participation in the consultant ward rounds and leading wards rounds alone. Participation in daily record keeping, updating of results, supervision of junior trainee discharge summaries and completion of complex summaries. Assistance to junior trainees on labour ward and postnatal wards. Liaison with tertiary referring units, community midwives and nurses and social services. Communication with parents of infants on the neonatal unit and postnatal ward Presentation of cases at the neonatal unit multi-disciplinary psychosocial meeting. Acquisition of skills while on the neonatal unit: Cranial ultrasound examination and interpretation, basic cardiac ultrasound. Teaching and supervision of junior trainees Supervision of SHO practical procedures, fluid prescriptions, ventilator management and general care of neonates on the Unit. Record keeping Shared responsibility for Neonatal Unit data sets and Neonatal Statistics Teaching: To attend all timetabled teaching sessions To contribute to departmental teaching programme To contribute to teaching of students particularly in relation to community child health services Audit, Quality Improvement and Service Improvement:To engage in departmental projects and initiatives to improve services, clinical practice and guidelines.

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