Job Overview
The team of Consultants in Acute Medicine provides a pivotal role in providing timely access to emergency medical care for the population. There is a dedicated Acute Medical Unit (AMU) for GP‑referred patients with assessment space and a short‑stay inpatient area. The team also runs the SDEC which has outpatient and trolley‑based areas for assessment and treatment. The team also provides support to other medical staff in managing patients referred to medicine within the Emergency Department. You will work closely with colleagues in Acute, General and Emergency medicine to provide support to an unselected medical take.
There is close support from medical specialties including Respiratory, Stroke Medicine, Cardiology, Care of the Elderly and Diabetes and Endocrinology. There is on‑site support from the full range of Medical and Acute Surgical specialties as well as Radiology, Obstetrics, Gynaecology, Intensive Care, Haematology and Orthopaedics.
The Consultants in Acute Medicine manage the Acute Medical Unit (Monday‑Friday 0800‑2000) including selected activity within SDEC (Monday‑Friday 0900‑1700) and lead the development of acute care pathways for a wide variety of clinical conditions. We also oversee daytime senior review of new medical referrals in ED (Monday‑Friday 0900‑1700), and a portion of the overnight intake in ED requiring morning ‘post‑take’ assessment (except cardiology and COTE patients which have separate ‘post‑take’ work streams as defined at morning handover).
Responsibilities
* Telephone streaming of GP referrals to AMU, SDEC and, where appropriate, advising on other acute clinical options.
* Attendance at morning handover for the medical on‑call team to stream patients seen overnight into acute, COTE, cardio post‑take options.
* Supervision of Acute Medical team members within AMU and SDEC.
* Supervision of the on‑call medical team within the AMU and ED during the consultant working hours outlined above.
About the Employer
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf. We live by our core values:
* We listen, learn and improve
* We treat everyone with respect
* We all work together as one team
* We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
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