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Job Overview
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for the Foundation Fellow in General Medicine to join our well established Medical team.
Job Overview
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for the Foundation Fellow in General Medicine to join our well established Medical team.
These are good posts to gain experience in general medicine to help decide what future career path you might take. Previous post holders have gone on to IMT rotations, specialty trainees rotations and GP training schemes. The rota will include on call cover for nights and weekends and is compliant with the new contract.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy if we receive a high number of applications for the role.
Main duties of the job
These posts are advertised as foundation fellow posts to support the Registrars and Consultants within the Medicine Division. The successful candidates will be expected to rotate within other sub-specialties.
This post is offered on a Fixed Term Contract basis and the successful candidate will be expected to participate in the Junior Medical on-call rota.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Duties And Responsibilities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* The appointee is responsible to the Consultants for the execution of his/her professional duties and for the supervision of the junior staff in the departments.
* He/she will be responsible for the routine and emergency admission of patients.
* He/she will arrange to be on duty for emergencies in accordance with the appropriate rota.
* He/she will carry out daily ward rounds to assess progress of patients and ensure that all treatments ordered are carried out and attend rounds with Consultants.
* He/she is to ensure that adequate patient notes are kept and correspondence is undertaken punctually at all times.
* He/she will make him/herself available to confer with patient's relatives, if required.
* In carrying out his/her duties, the appointee will at all times be responsible for keeping the Consultants informed of serious cases on the Ward, cases of death and any other matter which it is deemed necessary that their attention should be drawn to. Any cases in which he/she has doubts must be referred to the Consultant.
* During his/her appointment, the appointee will at all times be expected to carry out such duties as assigned to him/her by the Consultant staff of the department and perform duties in occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstances.
* It is the responsibility of the appointee to carry out tuition and training and supervision of the F1s (House officers) within the department and give occasional lectures to nursing staff as required.
* He/she should report to his/her Consultant any deviation from good health he/she may observe in any member of the junior medical staff
Daily Commitment
* Varies with post:
* Typically: Daily Consultant Input and twice weekly consultant ward rounds. Ward jobs in the afternoon to include talking to relatives, completing discharge summaries and liaising with other health care professionals. Other duties as per working plan in each placement.
Person specification
Qualifications And Experience
Essential criteria
* Must have completed 1 year Foundation training, preferably within medicine specialties and experience of acute on call shifts
* GMC registration with License to practice
* Evidence of Primary Medical Qualification
Desirable criteria
* MRCP Part 1
* Previous Experience at SHO level
* Audit/Research Experience
* Teaching experience
Competencies
Essential criteria
* Keeps professional knowledge and skills up to date
* Evidence of competence in basic procedures e.g CPR, infection control, physical examination, history taking
* Examples of awareness of own limitations, consulting senior colleagues appropriately and knows when to ask for help
Desirable criteria
* 12 months NHS experience
* Evidence of leadership qualities(not necessarily in medicine)
* Demonstrates a critical and enquiring approach to knowledge acquisition
Professional/Specialist/Functional Experience
Essential criteria
* Understands the principles of patient confidentiality and data protection
* Understands the principles of clinical governance - ensures patients are not put at risk
Desirable criteria
* Distinctions, scholarships, prizes
* Other degrees, BSC, Masters, or PhD
* Understands the importance and impact of information systems in healthcare
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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