Junior Locally Employed Doctor - General and Tertiary Paediatrics
A Vacancy at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.
The Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital is the largest Children’s Hospital in the UK. It has a large General Paediatric Department for the local population and all tertiary specialities which cover the wider region. The hospital is within the same site as St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and Manchester Royal Infirmary.This allows for easy transition from neonatal care to Paediatric care and then to adult care. The specialities all work well together and with the Paediatric Emergency Department. Patient records are all electronic which helps to coordinate care.
The successful candidates will work alongside more than 30 other resident doctors at an equivalent level (GP ST2, FY2 and ST 1-3) in different specialities and a combined on call rota. The posts are suitable for doctors who have completed at least 4 months of Paediatric training at level FY2 or above.
Each department has resident doctors at 2 tiers corresponding to the previous grades of SHO and registrar. They cover that department’s patients from 8am - 4pm. Out of hours, there is a combined on call rota covering inpatients and acute admissions including evenings, weekends and nights.The weekend frequency is approximately 1:4 (this includes day and night shifts). Overall nights frequency is approximately 1 week in 12 (split) but this depends on whether General Paediatrics or Tertiary. The weekday evening frequency is approximately 1 in 6.
For all specialties including General Paediatrics, the working day is 8am to 4:30pm with the last half an hour as handover. Each specialty will have it’s own departmental induction and the inpatient work will be consultant and registrar led. The duties will include:
- Ward round reviews, usually with senior oversight
- Assessment of new patients in A&E
- Management of day case patients
- Medical procedures as needed.
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and well being and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification.This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post.As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
This advert closes on Friday 14 Mar 2025