County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
Trust Grade Doctor, Same Day Emergency Care UHND
The closing date is 01 July 2025
PLEASE NOTE:This advert is ring-fenced for internal CDDFT Employees (substantive/fixed term) and current LET Trainees placed by the Deanery at one of our main hospital sites (UHND, BAH and DMH). All other external applications will be rejected.
We are looking for applicants with experience in acuteand/or general internal medicine who also have excellent team-working skillswith the abilities and professional skills to work well in a multi-professionalteam. The posts would ideally suit a post FY2 level doctor who wishes to gainfurther experience and skills before considering their next career move, andwho is keen to enhance their skills within the management of the acutely unwelladult patient. Each post holder will have a supervisor and encouraged to enrolonto a generic E-Portfolio.
Based at University Hospital North Durham, thepost-holder will be a key junior member of the urgent and emergency care teamwith a clear role in ensuring comprehensive care for their inpatients andproviding acute assessment on presentation. They will be working primarily within the Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) team under the supervisions ofConsultants based in a speciality but with flexibility to move within the remitof general medicine. As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will be committedto delivering clinical and quality targets agreed both nationally and locally.
Main duties of the job
1. Liaise between nurses, junior doctors, patients,relatives and senior medical staff.
2. Attend and participate in ward rounds as timetabled.
3. Study for higher examination and maintain continuedprofessional development.
4. Attend weekly educational and multidisciplinary sessions.
5. Undertake audit at various times throughout therotations.
6. To supervise and manage junior medical staff.
8. To assist in the teaching and training programmes forJunior Staff and Postgraduate Medical Education.
9. To support the development of clinicalgovernance, using audit findings to improve quality of treatment and tominimise clinical risk.
About us
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You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks
We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.
We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented
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From April 9th 2025 - Healthcare assistants - You must have a minimum of two yearsof experience working within the NHS as a HCA for the Trust to considersponsorship (we will only consider sponsorship if you meet this criteria andhave a current visa expiring within 3 months)
Job responsibilities
We provide services from three main hospital sites, sixcommunity hospitals, and around 80 locations across the area plus the caredelivered at home.
Our range of services includes hospital based emergency andplanned care, including surgery, medical treatment for serious andlife-threatening conditions, paediatrics and women services, community basedservices for long term conditions like diabetes or respiratory illness; andhealth and well-being services to improve health and prevent illness, such assmoking cessation and alcohol reduction. So now, whatever the health care needsof our community, and wherever they need them in County Durham, our commitmentis to provide these to the best standard and quality.
We provide acute services, for the most seriously ill orinjured patients through our Accident & Emergency departments at DarlingtonMemorial and University Hospital of North Durham. Planned patient care, rehabilitationand recovery, and an urgent care centre are provided at Bishop AucklandHospital. Outpatient and diagnostic facilities are provided at all these sites.
We aim to treat patients as close to home as possible soprovideoutpatient and community facilities, including inpatients and day careat six community hospitals.
The Trust in its aim to continue to drive the quality ofservice provided to the community is to develop greater interdependence betweenour hospitals by creating centres of excellence in a range of specialties oneach site, and greater integration between hospital and community services.
Recent developments in this area includes the approval tocentralise hyper-acute stroke services on a single site, at University Hospitalof North Durham allowing us to improve emergency stroke care during the first72 hours and the development of a specialist bariatric service at Darlington.
University Hospital of North Durham has 366 beds andprovides a wide range of acute specialties including Accident & Emergency,Anaesthetics and ITU, General Medicine, General Surgery, Urology (Day caseonly), Orthopaedics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Paediatrics, PlasticSurgery, Rheumatology, Dermatology and Genito-Urinary Medicine. Additionalout-patient facilities exist for ENT, Nephrology, Neurology,Radiotherapy/Oncology, Ophthalmology, Oral Surgery and Plastic Surgery.Clinical support departments of Imaging (including PACS digital radiology, CT,MRI and ultrasound), Coronary Angiography, Medical Physics, Pathology, Pharmacyand Allied Health Professions are all on site.
Recent approval will see Durham provide a hyper-acute strokeunit, supporting 24/7 emergency stroke care, including administration ofthrombolysis where appropriate, on a sustainable basis.
The Hospital was built under the Private Finance Initiativeand opened in 2001, replacing the former Dryburn Hospital that has beendemolished. It serves a population of c250, 000. For Plastic Surgery andDermatology the population served is c750, 000, covering Sunderland and SouthTyneside as well.
This role is alligned to the Urgent and Emergency Care teamand will be based in the SDEC Department at University hosptial North Durham.There are 220 beds in the University Hospital for medical specialities, with afurther 68 rehabilitation beds in satellite hospitals. There is a full range ofdiagnostic support with access to CT, MRI and Ultrasound including carotidimaging.
There is a 40 bed acute medical unit receivingover 40 admissions/24 hours plus a co-located ambulatory care service. The AMUis supported by acute care physicians. There is a dedicated 24 bedded hyperacute stroke unit with support from Stroke consultants with direct admissions24/7 for all acute stroke admissions.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* MBBS or equivalent
* MRCP-1 and previous experience in UK
Experience
* Revelant general/acute medicine experience in the UK
Statutory Registration
* GMC registration
Special Requirements
* ALS
* Previous Acute medicine/SDEC experience
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
£52,656 a yearMT03 Pay Grade per annum pro rata
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