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Clinical Fellow - Emergency Medicine CT1-2
South West Acute Hospital - Enniskillen
JOB DESCRIPTION
CLINICAL FELLOW IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE
SOUTH WEST ACUTE HOSPITAL, ENNISKILLEN
SEPTEMBER 2026
TITLE: Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine
SPECIALTY: Emergency Medicine with opportunity to pursue a special interest
BASE: South West Acute Hospital, Enniskillen
DURATION: 6 months - 1 year in the first instance
RESPONSIBLE TO: Clinical Lead
JOB SUMMARY
The Clinical Fellow(s) are at the heart of the medical workforce in the Emergency Department at the South West Acute Hospital.
Our goal is to provide safe, effective, high quality emergency care in a timely, cost-effective and sustainable manner.
The Clinical Fellow(s) will undertake the initial assessment, resuscitation, diagnosis and treatment of all acutely ill or injured patients attending the ED and will be supervised and supported on a day to day basis by the middle grade doctors (if applicable) and the Consultants in Emergency Medicine.
The Clinical Fellow(s) will be supported by dedicated Educational and Clinical Supervisors who are GMC recognised trainers aligned with their special interest.
The job plan is a full shift rota with no on call commitment. The Clinical Fellow(s) will have up to 8 hours per week of dedicated time to pursue a CV enhancing special interest.
Special interests which can be supported include acute medicine, intensive care medicine and medical education / simulation. Other bespoke training opportunities may be available by mutual agreement. For example, 2 of our Clinical Fellows have been supported to apply for entry onto the General Medical Council's Specialist Register via the portfolio pathway (formerly known as CESR).
We aim to provide you with an excellent work life balance in a welcoming rural community where you may treat your neighbours, friends and colleagues.
We actually enjoy going to work and we enjoy ourselves while we’re there.
We encourage you to join us in our journey to be the best rural ED in the UK and beyond.
EMPLOYING AUTHORITY
The Western Health and Social Care Trust
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The National Terms and Conditions of Service for Hospital Medical and Dental Staff will apply.
As per the current salary scale under National Terms and Conditions of Service for Hospital Medical and Dental Staff.
The appointee will maintain registration and Licence to Practice with the General Medical Council (London).
Annual leave entitlement is 5 weeks (25 days) per year.
The successful candidate will be expected to be flexible and to co-operate with reasonable requests to cover for their colleagues’ absences where they are safe and competent and where it is practicable to do so. Where doctors undertake duties in accordance with this paragraph and such duties take place outside of their contracted hours, they will receive either an equivalent off duty period or remuneration.
The post will be subject to termination at any time, by one month’s notice in writing given on either side.
MAIN CONDITIONS OF SERVICE
REGISTRATION AND DEFENCE
Registration with the GMC must be maintained. Health and Social Services Employers have assumed responsibility for claims of Medical/Dental negligence against Practitioners occurring in the course of their health service employment. Practitioners are advised to maintain their defense body membership in order to ensure that they are covered for any work, which does not fall within the scope of the indemnity scheme.
SUPERANNUATION
Trust staff will be automatically enrolled on the Health & Social Care Pension Scheme. Further information may be obtained from the HSC Pension Service website at www.hscpensions.hscni.net
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
The successful candidate will be required to undergo a pre-employment medical by the Occupational Health Department before taking up the post. The candidate shall be required to produce a Certificate of Medical Fitness for Exposure Prone Employment.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
To undertake the initial assessment, resuscitation, diagnosis and treatment of all acutely ill or injured patients attending the ED.
To participate in the supervision and training of medical students and nursing staff.
To participate in the multidisciplinary teaching programme in the ED.
To maintain a close and supportive working relationship with medical, nursing, paramedical, allied health professional and management colleagues.
To participate in clinical governance activity in line with ED and Western Health and Social Care Trust requirements.
To participate in CPD activity, appraisal and revalidation in line with Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Western Health and Social Care Trust and General Medical Council requirements.
SUPERVISION AND SUPPORT
The Clinical Fellow(s) will be supervised and supported on a day to day basis by the middle grade doctors (if applicable) and the Consultants in Emergency Medicine.
The Clinical Fellow(s) will be supported by dedicated Educational and Clinical Supervisors who are GMC recognised trainers aligned with their special interest.
JOB PLAN / OPPORTUNITIES
The job plan is a full shift rota with no on call commitment.
The frequency of weekend and night shifts will be 1 in 8.
This CT/ST level post attracts a 50% pay banding supplement.
The Clinical Fellow(s) will have up to 8 hours per week of dedicated time to pursue a CV enhancing special interest.
Special interests which can be supported include acute medicine, intensive care medicine and medical education / simulation. Other bespoke training opportunities may be available by mutual agreement. For example, 2 of our Clinical Fellows have been supported to apply for entry onto the General Medical Council's Specialist Register via the portfolio pathway (formerly known as CESR).
Additional opportunities with the Western Health and Social Care Trust include participating in the STEPWest quality improvement and leadership programme or becoming a MedEdWest Education Fellow and completing a funded Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Education through the Queen’s University of Belfast.
WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN US
We aim to provide you with an excellent work life balance in a welcoming rural community where you may treat your neighbours, friends and colleagues.
THE WESTERN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE TRUST
The Western Health and Social Care Trust provides health and social care services across a geographical area extending to approximately 5,000 square kilometres in the west of Northern Ireland.
The Trust aims ‘to provide high quality patient and client-focused health and social care services through well trained staff with high morale’.
Further information can be found at http://www.westerntrust.hscni.net/
COUNTY FERMANAGH
The South West Acute Hospital is located in Enniskillen, the County town of County Fermanagh. County Fermanagh, in the South West of Northern Ireland, is an area of outstanding natural beauty that is often described as ‘Northern Ireland’s Lake District’. Enniskillen itself is set on an island between Upper Lough Erne and Lower Lough Erne and is less than 1 hours drive from the Donegal coast and less than 2 hours drive from both Belfast and Dublin.
Further information can be found at www.fermanaghlakelands.com
THE SOUTH WEST ACUTE HOSPITAL
The South West Acute Hospital, which opened in June 2012, is a new district general hospital with up to 312 inpatient and day case beds. It provides services to a widely dispersed population of approximately 132,000 people in a predominantly rural area that forms the southern sector of the Western Health and Social Care Trust.
The South West Acute Hospital is networked within the Western Health and Social Care Trust with Altnagelvin Area Hospital, located approximately 60 miles away in Londonderry, and also with regional centres located approximately 85 miles away in Belfast.
The South West Acute Hospital provides emergency medicine, acute medicine, general internal medicine, gastroenterology, cardiology, endocrinology and diabetology, respiratory medicine, geriatric medicine, stroke medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatric medicine, general surgery and critical care services. It has 24/7 biochemistry, haematology and blood bank services and radiology services including x-ray and ultrasound, CT and MRI scanning.
EMERGENCY MEDICINE
The ED at the South West Acute Hospital has in the region of 41,500 attendances per year. Due to its rural location it receives the full spectrum of adult and paediatric patients with undifferentiated acute illness or injury including those with medical and surgical presentations, mental health presentations, obstetrics & gynaecological presentations and major trauma.
In general terms the ED consists of a triage room, a 4 bay resuscitation room and 17 single room treatment cubicles.
The radiology department, the Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) area and the Acute Medical Unit (AMU) are located adjacent to the ED. Patients who have been referred and accepted from the community via GP for admission or assessment bypass the ED and go directly to the SDEC area or the AMU, hospital bed capacity permitting.
Protocols are in place to allow patients to be referred directly from triage to the GP out of hours service.
The clinical decision maker workforce comprises 8 Consultants in Emergency Medicine, supported by Trust doctors, 1 GP trainee, locum medical staff, 3 Advanced Clinical Practitioners and 4 Emergency Nurse Practitioners.
There are currently 8 Consultants who provide the senior tier of medical cover. These are:
Dr Campbell Brown (formerly Consultant with NI HEMS with a special interest in pre-hospital care)
Dr Louise Burrows (special interest in medical education)
Dr Ian Crawford - Clinical Lead (special interests in academic emergency medicine and intensive care medicine)
Dr Lynn Cromie (special interest in sports medicine)
Dr Caroline Gallagher
Dr Alison Little (special interest in ultrasound)
Dr Stephen McKenzie (special interest in medical education)
Dr Michael Murphy
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
To undertake the initial assessment, resuscitation, diagnosis and treatment of all acutely ill or injured patients attending the ED.
To participate in the supervision and training of medical students and nursing staff.
To participate in the multidisciplinary teaching programme in the ED.
To maintain a close and supportive working relationship with medical, nursing, paramedical, allied health professional and management colleagues.
To participate in clinical governance activity in line with ED and Western Health and Social Care Trust requirements.
To participate in CPD activity, appraisal and revalidation in line with Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Western Health and Social Care Trust and General Medical Council requirements.
SUPERVISION AND SUPPORT
The Clinical Fellow(s) will be supervised and supported on a day to day basis by the middle grade doctors (if applicable) and the Consultants in Emergency Medicine.
The Clinical Fellow(s) will be supported by dedicated Educational and Clinical Supervisors who are GMC recognised trainers aligned with their special interest.
JOB PLAN / OPPORTUNITIES
The job plan is a full shift rota with no on call commitment. The frequency of weekend and night shifts will be 1 in 8. This CT/ST level post attracts a 50% pay banding supplement.
The Clinical Fellow(s) will have up to 8 hours per week of dedicated time to pursue a CV enhancing special interest.
Special interests which can be supported include acute medicine, intensive care medicine and medical education / simulation. Other bespoke training opportunities may be available by mutual agreement. For example, 2 of our Clinical Fellows have been supported to apply for entry onto the General Medical Council's Specialist Register via the portfolio pathway (formerly known as CESR).
Additional opportunities with the Western Health and Social Care Trust include participating in the STEPWest quality improvement and leadership programme or becoming a MedEdWest Education Fellow and completing a funded Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Education through the Queen’s University of Belfast.
WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN US
We aim to provide you with an excellent work life balance in a welcoming rural community where you may treat your neighbours, friends and colleagues.
EMPLOYING AUTHORITY
The Western Health and Social Care Trust
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The National Terms and Conditions of Service for Hospital Medical and Dental Staff will apply.
As per the current salary scale under National Terms and Conditions of Service for Hospital Medical and Dental Staff.
The appointee will maintain registration and Licence to Practice with the General Medical Council (London).
Annual leave entitlement is 5 weeks (25 days) per year.
The successful candidate will be expected to be flexible and to co-operate with reasonable requests to cover for their colleagues’ absences where they are safe and competent and where it is practicable to do so. Where doctors undertake duties in accordance with this paragraph and such duties take place outside of their contracted hours, they will receive either an equivalent off duty period or remuneration.
The post will be subject to termination at any time, by one month’s notice in writing given on either side.
MAIN CONDITIONS OF SERVICE
REGISTRATION AND DEFENCE
Registration with the GMC must be maintained. Health and Social Services Employers have assumed responsibility for claims of Medical/Dental negligence against Practitioners occurring in the course of their health service employment. Practitioners are advised to maintain their defense body membership in order to ensure that they are covered for any work, which does not fall within the scope of the indemnity scheme.
SUPERANNUATION
Trust staff will be automatically enrolled on the Health & Social Care Pension Scheme. Further information may be obtained from the HSC Pension Service website at www.hscpensions.hscni.net
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
The successful candidate will be required to undergo a pre-employment medical by the Occupational Health Department before taking up the post. The candidate shall be required to produce a Certificate of Medical Fitness for Exposure Prone Employment.
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Clinical Fellow In Emergency Medicine (Ct1/2) in Enniskillen employer: Western Health and Social Care Trust
Western Health and Social Care Trust is an exceptional employer, offering a supportive work culture that prioritises employee well-being and professional development. Located in the picturesque Enniskillen, the Trust provides unique opportunities for growth within a multidisciplinary team, allowing you to make a meaningful impact in geriatric medicine while enjoying a fulfilling work-life balance.
Contact Details:
Western Health and Social Care Trust Recruitment Team
