Clinical Ward Fellow

Job Summary
This is a Clinical Fellow position responsible for the care of inpatients at Cleveland Clinic London. You should be competent in the assessment and initial management of acute surgical patients, and some medical patient including neurology, cardiology and gastroenterology. You will be managing the daily care of patients undergoing a variety of procedures. You will have direct daily supervision from the consultants working at CCL. This role is about providing high quality, world leading care, and Cleveland Clinic London will also invest in your personal and professional development. An ideal candidate will have completed at least 2 years after their Foundation training. They must be eager and enthusiastic to learn and prepared to work in a high functioning team in a high reliability organization.

Job Responsibilities

• Working as a part of the clinical fellow workforce looking after the daily care of inpatients.
• Working collaboratively with specialist consultants and nursing professionals to ensure that patients’ treatment and care needs are met
• Being a part of the rolling rota covering a 24-7 service in the surgical unit.
• Leading and assisting with new admissions and inpatient consultations, including morning and evening multidisciplinary ward rounds
• Proactively identifying patients who qualify for early mobilization, are at risk for decline or may have a longer length of stay.

Professional

• Engaging with clinical governance activities, education, training and research to continuously improve and strive for excellence:
• Participating in the regular in-house learning sessions and other educational activities as well as taking up educational responsibilities
• Adhering to the best practice guidelines, clinical audits, and governance.
• Active involvement in clinical governance meetings, including but not limited to mortality review, safety event reporting, peer review, and other relevant activities
• Continual commitment, and participation in mandatory trainings, including Epic electronic medical record system

Education

• MBBS or equivalent
• Fully registered with the GMC and current license to practice
• Current UK visa or permission to work

Certifications

• MRCP, MRCS/FRCS or equivalent will be viewed positively but are not essential.

Competencies (Complexity of Work)

• Ability to organise and prioritise clinical needs
• Evidence of diagnostic skills, and clinical judgment.
• Competent in the perioperative management of the surgical patients including the basic assessment, investigation and management.
• Competent in routine clinical skills including venipuncture, blood cultures, arterial sampling, nasogastric tube and urethral catheters.

Work Experience

• A minimum of 2 years of hospital experience after completion of foundation training
• Perioperative management experience of post surgical patients

Personal Skills

• Commitment to good team working and relationships
• Demonstrates probity (displays honesty, integrity, aware of ethical dilemmas, respects confidentiality)
• Effective communication skills
• Good leadership skills
• Enthusiasm and ability to work under pressure
• Demonstrates empathy and understanding
• Supportive and caring attitude to patients and colleagues
• Commitment to clinical governance/improving quality of patient care
• Demonstrates awareness of good decision making. Awareness of own limitations.
• Evidence of engagement in clinical governance, reporting errors/learning from errors.
• Experience of audit or quality improvement.
• Experience of supervising clinical staff.
• Experience of education and training medical, nursing and all other relevant caregivers.

Personal Protective Equipment
Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

Safeguarding
All caregivers have a personal and a professional responsibility to identify and report abuse. A patient or fellow caregiver may disclose information of being abused or suspected abuse. A caregiver may also witness abuse or simply have concerns of abuse taking place. Should any caregiver suspect abuse then it is vital that the CCL safeguarding policy and procedure is immediately implemented. It is the caregiver’s responsibility to ensure they are fully compliant with CCLs safeguarding and training and read, understood and adhere to the CCL’s Safeguarding Policy and Protocols.

CCL is committed to applying its Equal Employment Opportunity/Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy at all stages of recruitment and privileging. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to any Protected Characteristics. When aware of the need to do so and when required, CCL will make reasonable adjustments to its arrangements for interviews and to conditions of employment/engagement for disabled applicants to ensure, so far as practicable, that they do not place such applicants at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to non-disabled applicants.