About this role
Job summary
*Post open to current North East LET and Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Doctors*
We have an opportunity for an Acute Medicine Trust Registrar, based at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH).
This role will balance your clinical time between our busy Acute Medicine inpatient unit (AMU) and our Medical Ambulatory Care (MAC) unit (which delivers same-day emergency care or SDEC). Your training needs will be discussed with a Clinical Supervisor during an initial meeting, to take full advantage of the opportunities highlighted below. Our team of Acute Medicine Consultant Physicians come from a diverse range of clinical backgrounds, including Clinical Infection, Elderly Medicine and Critical Care.
We expect the post to be banded at 1B.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
The type of clinical work and learning opportunities to expect:
working on busy AMU and Medical Ambulatory Care unit
Educational opportunities
Enhance your skills in taking a targeted medical history
Understand how ambulatory care can contribute to safe admission-avoidance
Gain confidence with communication skills with both patients and their families
Understand team-working and leadership, and the roles of all members of the team
Understand the role of imaging and investigations, and how urgently these investigations may be needed.
Learn to work and lead a multidisciplinary team
Gain confidence with paracentesis, lumbar punctures and other procedures, and training junior trainees in these where appropriate.
Development of diagnostic, management and communication skills
Attend / present interesting or challenging cases at our departmental meetings
consider Quality Improvement / Clinical Audit opportunities within our department
Working pattern:
You will work 1 evening per week (excluding annual leave) and 1 weekend in 5. No night shift duty. Your other shifts will be 8-4 or 9-5 and will include some non clinical time.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick upon Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Job description Job responsibilities
Our Acute Medicine inpatient ward works in parallel alongside the other NSECH specialty admission wards (e.g. respiratory, cardiology, gastroenterology and elderly medicine).
The AMU is our specialist in-patient ward for:
Diabetic emergencies
Toxicology
Acute oncology and complications of radiotherapy / chemotherapy
Undifferentiated sepsis
Neurology
acute Rheumatology
Acute Kidney Injury
Headache
We also look after our share of acute General Medical admissions. Every day there is shop-floor presence of Consultant Physician(s) from 8am-8pm.
Training needs will be discussed with an educational supervisor during an initial meeting, to take full advantage of the opportunities highlighted in the job description.
Person Specification
Experience Essential
Experience of, and commitment to, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff Experience of some aspects of Clinical Governance
Desirable
Experience of audit or quality improvement projects
Qualifications Essential
MBBS or equivalent Fully registered with the UK General Medical Council Completion of two-year Internal Medical Training (IMT) programme or equivalent Paid UK NHS experience working as a doctor Advanced life support training from resuscitation council (ALS) or equivalent MRCP Part 1 completed
Desirable
Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to Acute General Medicine
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
Northumbria Way
Cramlington
NE23 6NZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)