Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric Infectious Diseases
- Grade
- Clinical Fellow
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (12 month fixed contract)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 200-CW-714414-7352472-CA
- Employer
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Georges Hospital
- Town
- Tooting
- Salary
- £65,048 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Fellow (ST4+) - Paediatric Infectious Diseases
Clinical Fellow
St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services.
With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m.
Co-located with St George’s, University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with King’s Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.
Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,000 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff.
St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute hospital that offers very specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke. It has a helipad which opened in spring 2014 and the work of its emergency department can currently be seen on Channel 4’s ‘24 Hours in A&E’ programme. The hospital also provides all the usual care you would expect from a local NHS district general hospital.
We also provide services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton. These include outpatient rapid diagnostic and treatment facilities, a minor injuries unit, limb fitting services and 70 elderly, intermediate care and rehabilitation beds.
As well as hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist, maternity and community services to children, adults, older people and people with learning disabilities. These services are provided from St John’s Therapy Centre, 11 health centres and clinics, schools, nursing homes and people’s own homes. The trust also manages the healthcare service at HMP Wandsworth.
Job overview
12 month fixed term Clinical Fellow in Paediatric Infectious Diseases- Target start date September 2025
This is a full time post providing Registrar level cover for the department.
The successful applicant will be expected to carry out all duties of a Paediatric Infectious Diseases (PID) Registrar, participating in all the activities of the PID Unit.
Main duties of the job
St George’s Hospital provides the in-patient service for PID with a dedicated ward, Pinckney ward as well as any other inpatient in Paediatrics with any infectious or immunological concern. The PID unit also provides a general PID clinic as well as specialised clinics in HIV, TB, congenital infections, immunodeficiencies and vaccinology and fungal infections. There is an extensive outreach PID support to all District General Hospitals within South West London as well as within Surrey as a consult advice service. There is also a strong antimicrobial stewardship service and pOPAT (Paediatric Outpatient Parenteral Antimicobial Therapy) provision. The PID unit works closely with the Microbiology team, with dedicated MDTs with them, as well as with the Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Units, Radiology and colleagues with Evelina London Childrens Hospital. The PID fellow will participate in all the above activities. The PID unit has also a strong governance and research foundations and encourages our PID fellows to participate in audits, service improvement projects and to strength their research profile as we have a link with the Centre for Neonatal and Paediatric Infection (CNPI) at St. George’s University of London (SGUL).
Working for our organisation
St Georges Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the largest healthcare units in the United Kingdom accommodating around 1170 beds and treating around 80,000 inpatient and day cases, and over 300,000 outpatients annually. It provides general acute services together with specialty services including neurosciences, cardiothoracic, and specialist children’s services.
The department has its own outpatient’s area, child development centre and occupies 5 wards comprising 71 inpatient and daycase beds which are used for children with both medical and surgical conditions including ENT and Ophthalmology, along with 10 Paediatric Intensive Care beds. There are 50 consultants and a fully staffed compliant middle grade and ST rota, composed of grid trainees, regional trainees, fellows and F1 doctors.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- The successful applicant will be expected to carry out all duties of a Paediatric Infectious Diseases Registrar, with no out of hours activities.
- To participate in the different academic meetings in the unit.
- To participate in the regular programme of audits and service improvement.
- To have responsibility for the Health, Safety and Welfare of self and others and to comply at all times with the requirement of the Health and Safety Regulations.
- To ensure confidentiality at all times, only releasing confidential information obtained during the course of employment to those acting in an official capacity in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act and its amendments.
- To work in accordance with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities policy to eliminate unlawful discrimination in relation to employment and service delivery.
- To ensure skills are up-to-date and relevant to the role, to follow relevant Trust policies and professional codes and to maintain registration where this is a requirement of the role.
- To comply with George’s Healthcare No Smoking Policies.
- To undertake such duties as may be required from time to time as are consistent with the responsibilities of the grade and the needs of the service.
Person specification
qualifications + Training
Essential criteria
- Full registration with GMC
- MRCP or MRCPCH or equivalent
- Medical Degree
Desirable criteria
- Teaching Qualifications
Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad experience in Paediatrics
Desirable criteria
- Experience in Paed Infectious Diseases
- Experience of research projects
Skills
Essential criteria
- Willingness to contribute to management
- Be willing to assist in the development audit and of an affective clinical audit programme
- To be computer literate
Desirable criteria
- Have taken part in audit
Personal
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as a member of a team
- Evidence of good communication skills
- Evidence of organization and motivation
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- To have an understanding of the basic principles of clinical governance
Desirable criteria
- To be committed to building a framework for monitoring and improving clinical quality
- To build a clinical practice which is evidence based
Employer certification / accreditation badges
.jpg "Disability Advice Line")
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Ferreras-Antolin
- Job title
- Care Group Lead for Paediatric Infectious Diseases
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8725 2931
- Additional information
List jobs with St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Medical and Dental or all sectors