Junior Clinical Fellow - Emergency Dept

Role overview

This is a 12-month appointment as a LAS in Paediatric Emergency Medicine with Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool, England. The department handles more than 70,000 new emergency attendances each year, with around 15% of patients requiring admission.

The Emergency Department receives referrals from GPs for medical, surgical and orthopaedic review, as well as patients referred directly from ED for admission. Consultant cover in the clinical areas is available from 08:00 to 00:00 every day of the week.

Clinical environment and facilities

The department is a large, well-equipped clinical space designed for paediatric emergency care. Facilities include:

• Two resuscitation rooms and two high-dependency rooms
• A multisensory room
• A Section 136 safe room
• 18 acute cubicles for patient assessment and treatment
• A minor procedures room
• An Emergency Decisions Unit with 12 beds for observation and short-term care
• An integrated decontamination unit
• The Paediatric Urgent Treatment Centre

Clinical duties

The postholder will be involved in the assessment, resuscitation, investigation, diagnosis and treatment of patients presenting to the Emergency Department. The role also requires close collaboration with the wider multidisciplinary team.

Training-grade doctors receive senior oversight, with consultant presence in the department for 16 hours each day. Overnight support is provided by the non-resident ED consultant, together with on-site paediatric doctors in medical, surgical, ICU and anaesthetic specialties at ST4+ level.

About the trust

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is among Europe’s largest and busiest children’s hospitals, caring for more than 200,000 children and young people annually. It is one of only four stand-alone paediatric trusts in the UK and employs around 2,800 staff.

The Trust provides 20 specialist services and is recognised nationally for Craniofacial Surgery, Paediatric Oncology, Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Neurology and Orthopaedics. It is also a teaching hospital, supporting the training of 550 medical students and 400 nursing students each year.

Additional services include child and adolescent mental health care with an inpatient unit on site, along with community-based provision such as school nursing, home carers and a child development centre. The hospital has more than 300 beds, including day surgery beds, a medical day care unit and an Emergency Decision Unit. A purpose-built Education Centre is also available on site for postgraduate learning.

Additional information

For an informal discussion or more details, contact Hannah Pool, Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, at Hannah.Pool@alderhey.nhs.uk.