Your duties will be arranged with the Consultant to whom you are responsible and you must discuss and understand these duties as soon as you take up your appointment. Your Consultant has final medical responsibility for all patients under his care and, therefore, any clinical problems beyond your experience or problems causing anxiety should be referred to the Consultant, a more senior member of your team, or in their absence, the appropriate person on duty for them. There is no on-call aspect to this post, but experience in acute medicine can be arranged if desired. There is predictable weekend working 9-5 on a 1 in 4 basis.
The department provides an acute medical service to a widely dispersed population of 220,000. As this is the only acute hospital within the district, the majority of acute medical emergencies are admitted and treated here. Those requiring regional specialist services (inpatient neurology, neurosurgery, renal, liver) are transferred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, after assessment. Individual consultants provide specialist clinics in respiratory medicine, gastroenterology, cardiovascular medicine, diabetes and rheumatology. Services provided by the staff of the department include upper and lower G-I endoscopy (including therapeutic endoscopy), bronchoscopy, pulmonary function testing, permanent cardiac pacing, cardiac catheterisation and a full range of non-invasive cardiac investigations.
Team 1 covering general medical patients on Gilwern Ward (16-18 beds) and medical outliers on Redbrook ward.
Team 2 covering general medical patients on Arrow Ward (8 beds) and medical outliers on Frome ward and Women's Health ward.
Non-clinical
Supervision and support of doctors in training and ACPs as appropriate to experience and competence.
All posts are whole-time. However part time/ job share will be considered.
The salary grade for this position is MT03, currently £43,923 plus allowances.
This post may close early if we receive a high volume of interest.