Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an energetic, forward-thinking trainee who wishes to develop higher level skills in the acute setting in a teaching hospital.
The Trust is looking to appoint two Chief Resident to follow on from its very successful previous cohorts of Chief Residents.These posts are supported by the Royal College of Physicians and Health Education England and are aimed to help trainees develop key skills that will equip them for their career as a consultant.
Applicants should be interested in developing skills within an acute environment with the programme having particular focus on Ambulatory Care, Acute Medicine, Acute Hospital at Home, specialty pathway development and point of care ultrasound.
Oxford has recruited Chief Residents every year since the launch of the RCP programme. The Chief Residents have had the opportunity to work on Service Development, Quality Improvement, Leadership Development and have presented their work at a variety of national forums. Their success is allowing the Trust to continue to have Chief Residents for the coming year.
Support will be given from the consultant body as well as from key leaders within the Trust.
Main duties of the job
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Chief Registrar Programme is a healthcare management and leadership training programme for senior trainees as emergent healthcare leaders, developed as a key component of the Future Hospital Programme established to implement the recommendations of the Future Hospital Commission. A key recommendation was to establish the Chief Registrar – a new senior role focused on leading and prioritising the optimal coordination of medical care, -, to deliver best patient and service outcomes from available healthcare resources.
The ‘Chief Registrar role combines the role of senior clinical trainee with a healthcare leadership and management development role, providing a unique personal development opportunity. Across all participating organisations, the RCP envisages that the Chief Registrar role will contribute to one or more of the following activities within a Trust: managing services; coordination of medical care; quality and service improvement; education and training; service re-design; and workforce transformation.
We are seeking a Chief Registrar to join our progressive team that has a clear vision to deliver patient-centred, contemporary care in innovative ways. There will be a total of two chief registrars within Acute General Medicine (one post has been appointed to already).
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the