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Clinical Trust Fellow (Higher) Paediatrics Division: Planned Care Care Group: Women's & Children's Health Grade: Specialty Registrar Salary: £44,171 - £57,570 per annum/pro rata Contract: 6 Months Fixed Term. We are recruiting for a Clinical Trust Fellow (Higher) in Paediatricswho shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff. We have part time 0.6LTFT post for 6 months available in our trust at registrar level to start from September 2023. The posts are based at Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham. The posts are for middle grade in paediatrics (ST3 level and above). The post holder will work with other colleagues to provide a comprehensive paediatric service with no neonatal cover. There will be the opportunity to lead ward rounds and run regular general paediatric clinics. He / she will also be encouraged to be involved in and experience other aspects of the service including management and education and will be supported to attend relevant senior management and governance meetings. The post holder will be allocated a paediatric Consultant at the start of the post who will provide educational supervision and mentoring. There is a level 3 neonatal unit based at Medway Maritime Hospital with a separate rota at all grades. Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment. The NHS are striving towards “we work flexibly” as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you. All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme. We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce. All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. Key Responsibilities 1. To provide acute general paediatric cover to in-patient and out-patient services (without need for neonatal service cover.) 2. To provide Paediatric Assessment Unit care as part of a multidisciplinary team 3. By arrangement to cover colleagues during periods of annual and study leave. 4. Administrative duties include those associated with the care of the patients and the running of the clinical department. 5. Help in the supervision and teaching of nursing and junior medical staff 6. Participate actively in quality improvement activity/ clinical audit and implement its results. 7. The post-holder will undertake, exceptionally, to perform additional duties in emergency and unforeseen circumstances as are essential for continuity of patient care. 8. Abiding by the clinical and corporation governance policies of the Trust