Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Are you looking for your next step within Acute Medicine? This Acute Medicine position is to support the increased expansion and development of our Same Day Emergency Care Unit (SDEC) and Acute Medical Units (AMU - McGill) at Royal Hampshire County Hospital (RHCH).
We envisage that the successful candidate will be working in Acute Medical Unit, thereby providing a wide breadth of acute medicine experience in this consultant-led area. This post provides an excellent opportunity to strengthen your clinical acumen, diagnostic and practical skills in acute medicine, with real-time consultant feedback and supervision. Additionally, this post offers candidates the chance to further develop their teaching experience by providing dedicated time to help run AMU teaching, simulation training, mock PACES, regular PACES exams, and medical student programmed teaching including virtual on-call training.
Main duties of the job
The role includes:
1. Patient assessment
2. Clerk and post-take administration; writing in patients' notes
3. Promptly updating patient systems
4. Attending clinics (Acute Medicine)
5. Attending Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings
6. Facilitating daily board rounds with MDT
7. Triage to medical teams/acute physicians as appropriate
8. Participating in ward rounds
9. Liaising with patient families to discuss patients' progress, goals, and achievable outcomes
10. Liaising with patients respecting their right to reach decisions about their treatment, care, and wishes for discharge destination
About us
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT) provides hospital services to around 570,000 people living in Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire, and specialist services to patients from all over the country. We deliver a full range of district hospital services in a variety of locations.
Our department has a strong sense of teamwork and pride and provides opportunities for professional development. The acute medicine Consultants are fully committed to a programme of teaching, and appointees are supervised similarly to formal trainees in terms of clinical and pastoral support as well as portfolio guidance. Successful candidates are actively encouraged to partake in regular quality improvement projects, weekly AMU teaching, medical grand rounds, mortality and morbidity meetings, and the completion of the MRCP exam.
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
* MBBS or equivalent
* Full GMC registration
* MRCP Part 1 and Part 2
* Management of Acute Adult Medical Admission at SpR level or ST2
* Basic Life Support
* Evidence of continuing professional updating
* Advanced Life Support
* MRCP
* Prior experience of working within NHS in the last 6 months
Experience and Knowledge
* Clinical knowledge and expertise, appropriate knowledge base and ability to apply sound clinical judgements to problems
* Research skills: demonstrates understanding of the importance of audit and research
* Evidence of relevant academic and research achievements, e.g., prizes, awards, distinctions, presentations, publications, and other achievements
Skills and Ability
* Communication skills - capacity to adapt to languages
* Ability to organise and prioritise busy workloads effectively and work under pressure
* Proficient and efficient handling of medical problems
* Ability to work effectively on an on-call rota shift system
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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