A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
This role will be split 50/50 between Acute Medicine and Palliative Medicine, to provide a unique opportunity for those wishing to pursue a career in either specialty. Training needs will be discussed with an educational supervisor during an initial meeting, to take full advantage of the opportunities highlighted below.
Trust Doctor in Acute Medicine
Acute medicine at NSECH encompasses x2 Acute Medicine admission wards that work in parallel to the other specialty admission wards (e.g. respiratory, cardiology etc), plus a large Medical Ambulatory Care / SDEC unit.
The type of work to expect and learning opportunities:
Working on a busy acute medicine unit and medical ambulatory care (MAC) unit
Trust Doctor in Palliative Medicine
Northumbria Healthcare manages three district general hospitals, plus a specialist emergency care hospital (NSECH or The Northumbria), which all have liaison specialist palliative care teams, including Consultants and clinical nurse specialists who help manage patients with palliative care needs who are admitted to hospital.
The type of work to expect and learning opportunities:
You will primarily be working in the hospital liaison team or Palliative Care Unit alongside the multi-disciplinary team (clinical nurse specialists, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, chaplain and social worker) and under supervision of a palliative medicine consultant.
Your role will be to support the liaison team in the assessment and ongoing management of patients referred by other medical providers (wards or primary care teams). This includes a holistic assessment and frequently will entail joint visits with other members of the MDT (eg clinical nurse specialists).
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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Acute Medicine: the type of work and learning opportunities to expect:
• Working on busy acute medicine units and our medical ambulatory care (MAC) unit.
• You will support our new telemedicine clinic on MAC.
Educational opportunities in Acute Medicine:
• Enhance your skills in taking a targeted medical history
• Understand how ambulatory care can contribute to safe admission-avoidance
• Gain confidence in communication skills with both patients and their families
• Understand team-working and leadership, and the roles of all members of the team
• Understand the role of investigations, and how urgently these investigations are needed.
• Learn to work and lead a multidisciplinary team
• Gain confidence with paracentesis, lumbar punctures and other procedures, and training resident doctors in these where appropriate.
• Development of diagnostic, management and communication skills
Palliative Medicine: the type of work and learning opportunities to expect:
• You will primarily be working in the hospital liaison team or Palliative Care Unit alongside the multi-disciplinary team (clinical nurse specialists, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, chaplain and social worker) and under supervision of a palliative medicine consultant.
• Your role will be to support the liaison team in the assessment and ongoing management of patients referred by other medical providers (wards or primary care teams). This includes a holistic assessment and frequently will entail joint visits with other members of the MDT (eg clinical nurse specialists).
• Communication with other professionals is critical in this role, and you will develop skills and knowledge regarding all aspects of a patient’s care pathway – from diagnosis to the provision of end of life care.
• In addition, teaching skills (both informal and formal) to all healthcare providers will be an integral part of the role.
• There will be a range of diagnoses (both cancer and non-cancer) and patients of a range of ages
Educational opportunities in Palliative Medicine:
• Develop skills in taking a palliative medicine history and understand how this may be slightly different to other histories, and may differ according to setting (community vs hospital).
• Gain in confidence with communication skills with both patients and their families
• Understand team-working, and the roles of all members of the team
• Learn to work within a multidisciplinary team to provide palliative care for patients
• Develop an understanding of ethical and legal issues as they apply to Palliative Medicine
• Development of diagnostic, management and communication skills in palliative care
• There will be regular teaching from the consultants as well as opportunities to attend regional palliative care physician education meetings.
• The post holder will also have the opportunity to attend general medical education within the hospital
Working pattern
To be confirmed once appointed, but may include some evening working, and some weekend working. You will not be on the medical registrar rota or expected to do night-shifts.
This advert closes on Thursday 21 Nov 2024
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