A Vacancy at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team.
This post is to commence February 2025 until August 2025. Candidates must hold full GMC registration at time of application.
The post is appropriate for doctors with an interest in a medical, surgical (trauma and orthopaedics) or general practice career due to the range of patient presentations and problems seen on the trauma rehabilitation unit. The candidate will be responsible for the day to day care of patients in the unit. The successful candidate will enjoy working in a multidisciplinary team in a ward-based role covering the 10 bedded Major Trauma Rehabilitation Unit and have some insight into long term conditions and medical issues in the rehabilitation setting. They will have the capacity to apply sound clinical knowledge of physical and mental health relevant to the post. There is no on-call commitment.
Please read the Job Description and Person Specification.
The successful candidate will provide ward-based medical care with Consultant supervision for patients of the Major Trauma Rehabilitation Service (MTRS), focusing on the Major Trauma Rehabilitation Unit (MTRU).
MTRU is a 10 bedded impatient unit which opened in November 2017 to provide multidisciplinary specialist rehabilitation to patients after major trauma. It is one part of the RVI MTRS, which is designed to provide very early (from critical care onwards) rehabilitation assessment and also post-discharge specialist rehabilitation care for patients who have accessed the inpatient service.
For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Laura Graham or Dr Emily Johnston Consultants in Rehabilitation Medicine, on 01912139759, or via email at Laura.Graham18@nhs.net or e.johnston3@nhs.net.
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Clinical:
• Attend the ward daily and review all patients (with the RM consultant when available and also with support from acute clinical teams), aiming to provide continuity and to support therapy staff
• Review patients’ background medical information with regard to chronic condition management during rehabilitation and prevent secondary complications
• Attend and provide medical input to the MTRU MDT meetings
• Liaise and collaborate with parent team junior doctors to update on changes to patient status including ordering (and taking if necessary) of bloods, XRs, other tests, prescriptions and discharge arrangements as appropriate
• Follow/chase up results and action issues generated with senior support and guidance
• Attend ward rounds/ad hoc patient reviews with parent teams, including daily trauma (A and E) round for MTRU patients
• Clerk in and be familiar with presentation, progress and plans for all new admissions to MTRU
• Be first point of contact for emergencies on the unit and queries from nursing and therapy staff
• Working with the major trauma coordinators, major trauma rehabilitation leads and Consultants in Rehabilitation Medicine to contribute to the rehabilitation assessment and rehabilitation prescription processes for major trauma patients
• Liaise with and support patient’s families and carers
• Accountable for own professional actions, supervised by the Consultant in Rehabilitation
• Have basic knowledge and interest in rehabilitation and medical contributions to the rehabilitation process
Administrative:
• To maintain accurate comprehensive and up to date records for patients and staff in line with Trust and legal requirements
• To communicate assessment and treatment results to the multi-disciplinary team in the form of reports and letters as required
• In line with departmental guidelines and procedures to provide daily statistics for use by the rehabilitation department to monitor and evaluate service activity levels
• To maintain up-to-date records of attendance at Statutory Training
Research:
• To take a role in the continual evaluation of practice in the specialty area, through evidence based audit projects, carried out by self or other members of the team, ensuring a programme of systematic review of new and current clinical practice is in place and that the results are presented to other members of the team
• The MTRS is active in research focused on recovery and rehabilitation after trauma and the opportunity exists to work with the Consultants in Rehabilitation Medicine, as well as the wider Musculo-skeletal surgical and rehabilitation teams
• The team also have an active audit programme (against national and local audit standards) to which the post-holder would be encouraged to contribute
This advert closes on Wednesday 30 Oct 2024
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