Job Description

We have a Senior Clinical Fellow post available within the Paediatric Emergency Medicine team.



The post holder will support the current PEM consultant as part of the recently established PEM team. The team have been central in developing an acute paediatric pathway with real potential for further quality improvement projects.



Role Responsibilities



Provide day to day support on site in the Paediatric Emergency Department Integral member of the paediatric resuscitation team Participate in the out of hours rotas Contribute to the departmental and undergraduate teaching programme including simulation Participate and be creative in the audit/research programme of the department

The Emergency Department (ED) at West Middlesex Hospital sees 55,000 patients a year of which approximately 30% of these are children, providing the service to a large urban population.



The dedicated Paediatric Emergency Department and the adjoining UCC, is open 24/7, which treats over 34,000 children per year with 18,000 being referred to PED.



PED is staffed entirely by paediatric nurses and medical staffing is jointly from general paediatrics and the emergency medicine teams. It is co-located with the main Emergency Department with a separate audio-visual waiting room. Our department is a 9 bedded space, including an HDU space, a mental health room, a separate isolation room and a paediatric dedicated bay in the 4 bedded resuscitation area.



There is a newly appointed P aediatric Emergency Medicine Consultant team who is dedicated solely to the Paediatric Emergency Department.



As such we are looking for an enthusiastic Paediatric Senior Clinical Fellow with expertise in all aspects of working with emergency care of children to working with the Paediatric and Emergency Team.