Job overview

Paediatric Clinical fellowship – March 2025- September 2025

We are really excited to announce Senior Clinical Fellow Posts in Paediatrics at The Royal London Hospital

The successful candidate will have the following Paediatric Subspecialty choices

Senior Clinical fellow (ST5-7 Equivalent)

1)    Paediatric Gastreoenterology 
2)    General Paediatrics

The posts will be for a period of 6 months with further extension depending upon the clinical performance

The Paediatric Gastroenterology post has come up due to HEE vacancy
The General paediatric posts are brand new posts in line with the vision of expanding General paediatric team at Royal London Hospital

Main duties of the job

Why should you apply here – 
1)    Royal London is one of the busiest paediatric unit in the UK . We already have GRID trainee’s for Paediatric A&E/ Paediatric gastroenterology/ Paediatric Respiratory medicine/ Paediatric Allergy medicine/ Paediatric endocrinology with SPIN trainee’s in paediatric Neurology. 

2)    Vast amount of paediatric research and academic activity is done here with the teams actively participating in lots of clinical trial. Fellows will be encouraged to participate in the ongoing trials as a part of the post

3)    We have a robust teaching programme (please see the detailed programme at the end of the advert) and will encourage all paediatric fellows to actively participate in the teaching sessions and also to deliver teaching.

4)     All undergraduates from QMUL (Queen Mary’s university London) are attached to Royal London hospital and there will be ample opportunities to mentor and teach them

5)    All fellows will be assigned a QI project/Audit to participate in along with participation in Clinical Governance and management meetings
 Work pattern would involve working with the paediatric subspeciality during the daytime. Oncalls would involves covering general and speciality paediatrics. Oncalls would include doing a combination of long days and night shifts. All shifts are EWTD and New deal contract compliant.   

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.  

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.  

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.  

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.