Job overview
Are looking for your next step within Acute Medicine?
These 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 these 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. This post also provides an opportunity for candidates to further develop their teaching experience by providing a dedicated time to help run AMU teaching, simulating training, mock paces, Regular paces exams, medical student programmed teaching including virtual on call training.
Main duties of the job
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.
This is also an opportunity for candidates to further develop their teaching experience by providing a dedicated time to help run AMU teaching, simulating training, mock paces, Regular paces exams, medical student programmed teaching including virtual on call training.
Working for our organisation
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, 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 round, mortality and morbidity meeting and the completion of MRCP exam.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Patient assessment
Clerk and post take administration; writing in patients notes
Undertake patient reviews
Promptly update patients systems.
Attend clinics (Acute Medicine)
Attend Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings
Facilitate daily board round with MDT
Triage to medical teams /acute physicians as appropriate
Participates in ward rounds
Liaising with patient families to discuss patients progress, goals and achievable outcomes
Liaising with patients respecting their right to reach decisions about their treatment, care and wishes for discharge destination.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. MBBS or equivalent
2. Full GMC registration
3. MRCP Part 1 and Part 2
4. Management of Acute Adult Medical Admission at SpR level or ST2
5. Basic Life Support
Desirable criteria
6. Evidence of continuing professional updating
7. Advanced Life Support
8. MRCP
9. Prior experience of working within NHS in the last 6 months.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
10. Clinical knowledge and expertise, appropriate knowledge base and ability to apply sound clinical judgements to problems
11. Research skills: demonstrates understanding of the importance of audit and research
Desirable criteria
12. Evidence of relevant adademic and research achievements, e.g. prizes, awards, distinctions, presentations, publications and other achievements
Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
13. Communication skills - capacity to adapt to languages
14. Ability to organise and prioritise busy workloads effectively and work under pressure
15. Proficient and efficient handling of medical problems
16. Ability to work effectively on an on-call rota shift system
17. Computer literate