Hospital Posts
** These posts are subject to Labour market test and available if no UK or EU candidates apply.**
Hospital posts
These are posts created by the hospital to ensure that patients are cared for and the hospital work gets completed in an efficient and timely manner. The posts are fully funded by the hospital and hence the hospital determines what the job description of these posts are.
Due to competition, most hospitals offer many incentives to people who apply for and take up the posts. These posts are at the level of core medical trainee ( Junior Clinical Fellow – JCF) or Specialist trainee -ST3+ ( Senior Clinical Fellow – SCF)
Many hospitals have a parallel posts and rotations . Hospitals will try to ensure that doctors on these programs have equivalent training although enforcing this is difficult. Deanery trainees will not be pulled back from training opportunities or study days as this will lead to questions raised from the deanery.
When you are taking these posts you need to ensure that you ask for training opportunities as those from abroad will be on employer dependant visas. You will need to spend money time and effort to take up these posts and documenting this at interview will be important if the posts you are in are not to the same standard.
Questions to ask at interview
1. Can I have a look at the job description please?
2. How many clinics per week can I expect?
3. Will I get study leave and a study leave budget? What is the annual allowance
4. Who do I report to if the post if the post is not as described?
5. What is my annual leave and study leave allocation?
Remember that these posts are self driven. Unlike the deanery posts where regular supervision and a reporting structure ensures adequate training, you will need to work with your educational supervisor to ensure that your training and eportfolio entries and appraisals are to similar standard.
Ways to ensure that you achieve parity…
- Plan your study leave, educational objectives are planned and approved.
- Choose a speciality and liaise with your consultant to ensure that clinics are booked in advance
- If on call means that you miss a clinic, ensure another clinic is booked in lieu.
- Use your zero days to further your training.