Applicants are invited to apply for the role of Research fellow in Frimley Emergency Department. The role is 75% clinical and 25% non-clinical. We are looking for doctors to start August 2025.
This is an excellent opportunity for doctors to maintain clinical work but also have time in their schedules dedicated to areas of interest to them. We see this as a way of sustainable working whilst also building on CVs and experience.
Study leave: 18 days (10 days general study leave, 5 days private study leave, 3 days for exams or interviews). Study budget: £650 per year.
The emergency medicine rota will include evening, night, weekend and bank holiday working. LTFT enquiries are welcome.
Applicants must have a minimum of 24 months experience working as a doctor in the NHS. This advert is open to ST1/2 and ST3+ applicants.
Main duties of the job
* To workwith the ED Consultant lead for Trauma & Nurse Lead onaudit and quality improvement for trauma management in the ED
* To develop new strategies, policy and management guidelines related to major trauma
* To analyse data for National Major Trauma Registry and draw out key learning outcomes based on this
* To continue to deliver and develop MDT trauma training within the emergency department eg. the weekly Tuesday Trauma skills teaching (10@10)
* To participate in ATLS courses (if appropriate to level of training)
* To facilitate TILS and Trauma Team Leader courses run by the ED Trauma Team
* To help organise the annual Frimley Resuscitation conference
* To co-chair 3 monthly Trauma Mortality & Morbidity meetings and work with the ED Trauma Team to implement identified actions for improvement
* To aid in disseminating important learning outcomes to ED and external speciality teams
* To Work with the ED Trauma Team and IT to develop the major traumadocumentation using the new electronic system
* To work with the other ED fellows to expand your experience and support each other’s projects
Working for our organisation
rimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please review the attached Job description and person specification.
This job description is an indication of the type and range of tasks that are expected of the post holder, and other duties may be required, in line with the role and the banding. It will be reviewed and amended from time to time in consultation with the post holder to take account of changing organisational need.
Person specification
Qualifications and Experience
* Registered with the GMC
* 2 years experience in the NHS
* Clinical experience relevant to emergency medicine
* Evidence of interest in, and commitment to the type of fellowship they would like to apply for
* Project work which demonstrates motivation, initiative and the ability to see projects through
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment .
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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.
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