Choose Well - Choose WWL
Job overview
We are currently recruiting 4 Junior Clinical Fellows to join our A&E team until August 2026, one commencing on 28th December 2025 and three commencing on 4th February 2026
To be eligible to apply, you must be an internal WWL doctor currently working at FY2 or ST1-2 level, any external applications received will be rejected.
The department has fully established 11 Consultants, providing shop floor cover for 15 hours per day. There is extensive support for examinations including all the Royal Colleges and GPs and a number of our doctors have achieved membership and fellowship of Royal College of Emergency Medicine within the last 2 years. WWL teaching hospital is amongst the best performing Trusts in the region.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
The primary responsibilities of the post holder include:
1. Delivering high quality, safe, and effective clinical care
2. Communicating effectively and compassionately with patients
3. Supporting as junior members of the multidisciplinary clinical team
4. Collaborating with all members of the Emergency Department team and staff from other departments.
5. Working to ensure audits in key clinical areas are acted upon to improve clinical quality
The role will require you to work across all areas in the Trust which includes those that are designated as positive, asymptomatic and negative COVID wards.
Working for our organisation
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
Please note senior positions may be expected to participate in an on-call rota.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information available by contacting Covid-19.vaccine@wwl.nhs.uk where you can also find out more about how to access vaccinations. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities
The initial management and primary care of patients presenting in the Department, however referred. It is expected that such work will be carried out to the highest clinical standards at all times and in accordance with accepted good medical practice and the various clinical policies of the Service.
6. Arranging for the follow-up of patients they treat in the Department - including the follow-up of any investigations performed and the taking of appropriate action in accordance with the results of these
7. Transmission of relevant clinical information on patients to other medical, technical and nursing staff either within the Department, within or without the hospital or at any other hospital, regarding patients under their care or those referred to other places for further treatment or follow-up.
8. Initial management of fractures including reduction and immobilisation.
9. Undertaking procedures as appropriate for the Emergency Department.
10. Supervision of nursing staff and junior doctors in matters relating to the treatment of patients.
11. Maintenance of adequate and proper records on patients for both clinical and audit purposes (including data input into the computer system) and for the furnishing of letters, reports and other documentation as required for medical, legal and statutory purposes.
12. Instruction of nursing staff and, from time to time, medical students and ambulance personnel under training within the Department
13. Coding diagnostics and treatment of patients on the information system
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
14. MBBS or Equivalent
15. Full Registration with GMC – Licence to practice
Experience
Essential criteria
16. Completion of Foundation Year 1 or equivalent
Skills
Essential criteria
17. Good Communication Skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
18. Shows relevant clinical knowledge
additional
Essential criteria
19. Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation