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 patients 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.