Teaching Fellow in Acute Medicine | University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 02 Gorffennaf 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £61,825 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 01 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Derby, DE22 3NE |
| Cwmni: | University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7172739/320-MDR-7172739-GM |
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We are appointing new colleagues for our medical team within the Acute Medicine Business Unit. These are full-time, fixed-term service appointments. Based at Royal Derby Hospital, the appointees will undertake duties for the Medical Services Division.
The post holder will support the Acute & Specialist Medicine Business Units, specifically within acute/ general internal medicine.
Whilst on duty the post holder will be clinically and professionally responsible for their patients.
It will also be their duty to:
• communicate with patients (&/or their carers if appropriate) about their condition;
• involve patients (&/or their carers if appropriate) in decision making about their treatment;
• maintain professional standards & obligations as set out from time to time by the General
• Medical Council (GMC) & comply in particular with the GMC’s guidance on ‘Good Medical Practice’ as amended or substituted from time to time;
• carry out any work related to, & reasonably incidental to, the duties set out in their schedule of duties, e.g. keeping of records & provision of reports, proper delegation of tasks, maintaining skills & knowledge.
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts about our Trust:
• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
The post holder will be expected to be flexible and to co-operate with all reasonable requests to cover for their colleagues’ absences where they are safe and competent and where it is practicable to do so. Where the post holder undertakes duties in accordance with this paragraph and such duties take place outside of their contracted hours they will receive either an equivalent off duty period or remuneration.
Where this adversely impacts on the schedule of duties and/or opportunities for individual doctors a temporary schedule of duties will be agreed for the period of cover. Where covering is not practicable, the Trust will be responsible for the engagement of a locum tenens, but the post holder will have the responsibility of bringing the need to the notice of the Trust
The post holder will be expected to contribute to graduate and continuing medical education activity locally as appropriate and to participate in clinical audit under local arrangements (in light of relevant departmental guidance).
The Medicine Division want to offer any trust grade doctor the opportunity to access support and training/supervision and will take a flexible approach for individuals wishing to gain specific skills within an area of Medicine.
A formal schedule of duties will be agreed between the post holder and the Assistant Clinical Director for the Acute Medicine Business Unit on appointment. It will be a prospective agreement that sets out the post holder’s duties, responsibilities and objectives for the coming year.
It will cover all aspects of the post holder’s professional practice including clinical work, administration, audit, teaching and CPD responsibilities. It will provide a clear schedule of commitments, both internal and external. In addition, it will include personal objectives, including details of the post holder’s link to wider service objectives, and details of the support required by the post holder to meet the timetabled duties and their objectives.
The post holder will be expected to work as part of a team with responsibility for maintaining the highest standards of clinical care, for teaching of junior staff and medical students and for actively participating in continuing medical education, and department and Trust matters concerning Clinical Governance and Audit.
This advert closes on Wednesday 16 Jul 2025