Resident Clinical Fellow

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

The closing date is 06 February 2026

We are excited to invite you to apply for the role of Resident Clinical Fellow within the Same Day Emergency Care Department (SDEC) part of the Emergency Medicine Directorate at Southport Hospital

Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust provides healthcare in hospital and the community to 258,000 people across Southport, Formby and West Lancashire.

Acute care is provided at Southport and Formby District General Hospital and Ormskirk and District General Hospital. This includes adults' and children's accident and emergency services, intensive care and a range of medical and surgical specialities. Women s and children s services, including maternity, are provided at Ormskirk hospital.

Applicants must be eligible for full Registration with the GMC at time of appointment.

Due to current service demands, we are only able to consider applicants who have relevant UK experience. Candidates must also be available to commence employment immediately or within a very short timeframe. We regret that we cannot progress applications that do not meet these essential requirements.

• The post is based at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospital and will join the existing multi-disciplinary team of Acute Physicians, Nurse Consultant, ANPs and Physicians Associate in delivering acute patient care in the General Medical Unit
• This post is ideal for junior doctors planning a career in acute or general medicine to gain exposure in a fast-paced unit managing acute patients on ambulatory pathways.
• Whilst this is a non-training post, post holders will have a clinical educational supervisor and will be able to attend teaching session in the Trust as well as accessing the well-equipped library with IT facilities. There is also the opportunity to have an electronic portfolio (for a fee)
• This post will not form part of the acute medical on call rota.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

Please find attached detailed job description and person specification for main responsibilities and requirements.

• Applicants must hold full registration with the GMC at the time of application
• MBBS
• BSc

• Experience at F2 level or equivalent in acute care
• ILS/BLS
• Audit research - Completed Audit topic
• ALS/ACLS/ATLS
• Research Publication

• Team working - Evidence of multi-disciplinary team working

• Competent in basic computing skills
• Excellent verbal and written skills

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust