Job Description
A key aim within the NHS People Plan is for Trusts to become ‘flexible first’, and that includes our doctors: “We Work Flexibly - We do not have to sacrifice our family, our friends or our interests for work”.
Integrated Medicine at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust has been at the forefront of the rollout of e-rostering for clinicians within the Trust, and we're keen to advance our work in becoming a flexible-first employer. This means offering our clinicians increasing flexibility in how they work, enabling them to provide personal and compassionate care, every time.
Our clinical fellow roles offer significant flexibility with the security of regular income, pension entitlement, supervision, study budgets and GMC revalidation.
Each post comes with 20% ‘non-clinical’ time to focus on an area of interest, such as medical education, leadership and management, or spending supernumerary time in a specialty of interest.
We're keen to recruit a team of outstanding clinicians to work towards our vision of providing outstanding care, healthy communities and a great place to work at BHT.
The post-holder will work flexibly to provide patient care across the medical wards and medical take, including evening and weekend work where required. Flexibility from both the post-holder and the Trust will be required, with a rota being provided at a minimum 6 weeks in advance.
The post is designed to support the medical team, ensuring the Division can provide safe staffing ratios on all its wards. This may include both the acute medical take and our inpatient medical wards.
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust providing community, acute and specialist care in our hospitals, community locations and in people’s homes. We care for patients from across Buckinghamshire and the borders of Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire, Berkshire and Bedfordshire.
We have around 6,000 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, health visitors, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff all working to deliver the best healthcare to our patients; from newborn babies to elderly people needing help to live independently at home.
This post is designed to support post-FY2 doctors who wish to continue clinical work alongside non-clinical paid time, enabling flexibility, job stability and satisfaction. Ideally, you will have decided on Medicine as your preferred career. You will have completed FY2 training and may be looking to explore a particular speciality further. You want the flexibility to choose specific time/weekends off, with the security of a regular income and pension entitlement. You want to maintain clinical skills, whilst also expanding your CV skills during work time.
This is a great post for those wishing to take some time out after FY2 and want flexibility, stability, training, supervision, a study budget and GMC revalidation, but do not yet want to commit to a training programme. It also suits those who want to take some time out of a formal training programme where they have dedicated non-clinical time.
This post is based on the success of the ‘Junior Clinical Fellow’ programme at Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals, which won an RCEM quality improvement prize and HSJ highly commended prize in the Workforce category and was shortlisted for the BMJ innovation prize. The programme is used as an example of good working practice by NHS Improvement, HEE (Health Education England).
While this post is not recognised for training, the experience of other Trusts with similar posts suggests that trainees will find this post useful for their medical education, clinical experience and career progression. It offers candidates the ability to build a portfolio prior to specialty application, or to spend time in a chosen speciality prior to application.