Trust Doctor in Emergency Medicine F3 ST1/2 | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,923 PA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 May 2024 |
| Location: | Frimley, GU16 7UJ |
| Company: | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6064228/151-FPHTD-01 |
Summary
We are looking for a young, vibrant, motivated and talented senior house officer grade (FY3/IMT/CT/ACCS) in Acute and General Internal Medicine to come and work primarily in our dynamic Ambulatory Emergency Care Unit (AECU) and to a lesser extent on the Acute Medical Unit (AMU). You will be working at Frimley Park Hospital, the first CQC awarded outstanding hospital in the country, and now part of the larger Frimley Health Foundation Trust (which incorporates Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals). The contract would be for a year in the first instance.
Our AECU is situated between the Emergency Department (ED) and our AMU and contributes to the medical take. It is currently served by an experienced nursing team, several advanced nurse practitioners, two experienced middle grade doctors, acute medical registrars, and a daily acute medical consultant. We have a close working relationship with our ED, as well as throughout the Medical Directorate, from where we get regular specialist input. There is plenty of opportunity to do procedures, gain specialist knowledge and to advance your decision-making skills.
You need to have completed your foundation training, be at an FY3 level or above and have a full registration with the GMC. We would expect excellent communication (written and verbal), IT skills (paperless hospital), seamless team working, as well as an ability to perform all the basic procedures, commensurate of the grade, independently. Some knowledge of ascitic drain insertion and lumbar punctures would be beneficial.
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
There will be no on call commitment, but evening (until 2000hrs) and weekend working (0900-1700hrs) will part of the rota, with appropriate time in lieu of the 48hour European Working Time Directive week.
If you have any questions about the post, please contact Dr Yohan Samarasinghe, Clinical Lead for Acute Medicine at Frimley Park Hospital, yohan.samarasinghe@nhs.net, or via the switchboard (01276 604604).
This advert closes on Thursday 11 Apr 2024
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