Acute Medicine Trust Doctor
Posting date: | 24 June 2024 |
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Salary: | Not specified |
Additional salary information: | £37,068 - £57,570 per annum |
Hours: | Full time |
Closing date: | 24 July 2024 |
Location: | Cramlington, NE23 6NZ |
Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
Job type: | Contract |
Job reference: | 6398590/319-6398590NR |
Summary
We have an opportunity for an Acute Medicine Trust Doctor, based at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH).
This role will balance your clinical time between our busy Acute Medicine inpatient unit (AMU) and our Medical Ambulatory Care (MAC) unit (which delivers same-day emergency care or SDEC). Your training needs will be discussed with a Clinical Supervisor during an initial meeting, to take full advantage of the opportunities highlighted below. Our team of Acute Medicine Consultant Physicians come from a diverse range of clinical backgrounds, including Clinical Infection, Elderly Medicine and Critical Care.
The type of clinical work and learning opportunities to expect:
Ø working on busy AMU and Medical Ambulatory Care unit
Ø contributing to our “Hospital at Night” team, including covering Gastroenterology ward admissions overnight
Educational opportunities
Ø Enhance your skills in taking a targeted medical history
Ø Understand how ambulatory care can contribute to safe admission-avoidance
Ø Gain confidence with communication skills with both patients and their families
Ø Understand team-working and leadership, and the roles of all members of the team
Ø Understand the role of imaging and investigations, and how urgently these investigations may be needed.
Ø Learn to work and lead a multidisciplinary team
Ø Gain confidence with paracentesis, lumbar punctures and other procedures, and training junior trainees in these where appropriate.
Ø Development of diagnostic, management and communication skills
Ø Attend / present interesting or challenging cases at our departmental meetings
Ø consider Quality Improvement / Clinical Audit opportunities within our department
Working pattern:
To be confirmed at interview, but likely to be full-shift, including day shifts and twilight shifts in SDEC and AMU, with overall 1:13 cover as part of Hospital at Night team. During shifts in AMU and overnight, part of the hospital’s cardiac arrest team.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Our Acute Medicine inpatient ward works in parallel alongside the other NSECH specialty admission wards (e.g. respiratory, cardiology, gastroenterology and elderly medicine).
The AMU is our specialist in-patient ward for:
Diabetic emergencies
Toxicology
Acute oncology and complications of radiotherapy / chemotherapy
Undifferentiated sepsis
Neurology
acute Rheumatology
Acute Kidney Injury
Headache
We also look after our share of acute General Medical admissions. Every day there is shop-floor presence of Consultant Physician(s) from 8am-8pm.
Training needs will be discussed with an educational supervisor during an initial meeting, to take full advantage of the opportunities highlighted in the job description.
This advert closes on Monday 8 Jul 2024
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