Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Clinical Fellow in General Paediatrics
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Job Opportunity at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced ST4+ to join the General Paediatrics Team at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust.
Working within one of the UK's largest specialist children's hospitals, the post holder will contribute to the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing management of children presenting with a wide range of acute and complex medical conditions.
Responsibilities
- Support the General Paediatrics service, providing care for approximately 5,000 admissions annually.
- Engage in outpatient and rapid access clinic activity.
- Participate in the management of patients within the Paediatric Assessment Unit (PAU), inpatient wards, and specialty services.
- Undertake clinical assessments, formulate management plans, coordinate investigations, and contribute to patient discharge planning under consultant supervision.
Key Duties
- Actively participate in ward rounds, multidisciplinary meetings, and collaborative working with colleagues across paediatric specialties, emergency medicine, surgery, intensive care, primary care, and community services.
- Involve in the acute paediatric on-call rota, providing senior clinical support to junior doctors.
- Respond to emergency situations, review deteriorating patients, accept referrals from external healthcare professionals, and ensure timely senior review of admissions in line with national standards.
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About Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care, providing a wide range of both hospital and community-based services, including specialist mental health services for children and young people, to over 275,000 children and young people each year. In addition to the hospital site located in the West Derby area of Liverpool, Alder Hey has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Alder Park building in the nearby borough of Sefton.
Alder Hey offers a number of specialist services. We are one of the two accredited major trauma units for children in the North West and are also nationally commissioned as one of four epilepsy surgical centres, a service we provide in partnership with Manchester Children’s Hospital. As the regional cardiac surgical centre we continue to work with the cardiac network across the region in order to provide seamless pathways of care for children with congenital heart problems. Alder Hey hosts a regional Tier 4 inpatient unit for children under the age of 13 who require highly specialised mental health support.
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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Elizabeth Harrison
- Job title: Operations Manager
- Email address: Elizabeth.Harrison@alderhey.nhs.uk
Further Information Concerning The Post Is Available From:
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Thomas Whitby, Consultant Paediatrician, Clinical Director & Medical Rota Lead
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Tolu Awogbemi, Consultant Paediatrician & Clinical Director
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Hannah Morris, General Manager Medical Care Group
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