Senior Clinical Fellow in Paediatric Gastroenterology

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£2.1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley. We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

This is a replacement post. The remit of the postholder/s will be to work within the multi–disciplinary team providing and further developing care for patients within the service. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the Care Group while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.

Main duties of the job:

• To work with other middle grade performing day-to-day care of the Gastroenterology patients in Rays of Sunshine Ward and/or Day Case Unit.
• To maintain high quality communication both spoken and written with patients, parents, GP’s and referring consultants.
• To attend endoscopy sessions, Gastroenterology outpatient clinics and also look after Gastroenterology patients who attend Phillip Isaac Day Case unit for hydrogen breath tests, Urea breath tests, impedance pH study, food challenge, pancreatic function tests, Video capsule enteroscopy and monoclonal antibody infusions.
• Opportunities are available to get experience in therapeutic endoscopic procedures including bleeding control (variceal banding, injection, clips etc), RNY loop enteroscopy & balloon enteroscopy, polypectomy, PEG and stricture dilation.
• Attendance on consultant led ward rounds and MDT meetings and opportunity to attend adult gastroenterology meeting.
• Opportunities to attend specialist clinics such as joint GI/Liver clinic, Short Gut clinic, Gastro/Allergy clinic, Feeding clinic, coeliac clinic, adolescent transition clinic endoscopy review clinic and tertiary level constipation clinic.

Working for our organisation:

The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level. We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people. King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• Developing & understanding of all aspects of assessment and management of Gastrointestinal, Nutritional, Pancreatic and liver problems in children at tertiary level.
• Developing diagnostic skills in upper, lower endoscopy and enteroscopy in children.
• Developing endoscopic therapeutic skills in basic interventional procedures such as polypectomy.
• Developing administrative skills in dealing with colleagues in respect to appropriate service cover.
• Opportunity to attend appropriate courses and research.
• Contact with adult tertiary level specialist care provision for gastroenterology & hepatology & nutrition.

Person specification:

Qualifications: GMC/GDC registration and MB BS or equivalent, MRCPH, Other higher degree or diploma.

Training and Experience: Minimum 2 years paediatric experience in UK. Wide experience in all aspects of General Paediatrics in large teaching hospital, working towards achieving an award of CCT or equivalent with sub-specialisation in Gastroenterology. Prior experience in Gastroenterology.

Audit & quality improvement: Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit and quality improvement. Enthusiastic approach to learning practical procedures.

Research: Experience in supporting clinical research.

Personal Skills: Effective communicator, able to work in a close-knit team and co-operate with all medical and paramedical staff. Familiarity with information technology and general computer skills.

IMPORTANT: Check your email account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you. If you delete the job from any of your accounts, you may be prevented from accessing further communications. To enquire about your application or inform us of any changes in your circumstances, please contact the named person on this advert. Please provide email addresses for referees where possible. Please review the documentation on our recruitment microsite, particularly the Trust’s criminal records checking policy. All staff have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and for ensuring they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role. Please note that the closing date is given as a guide. On occasion, we might close a vacancy early due to a high number of applications being received. You are advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.