Job summary
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.
About us
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.
Job description
Job 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.
Job description
Job 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
- MBBS or equivalent
- Full GMC registration
- MRCP Part 1 and Part 2
- Management of Acute Adult Medical Admission at SpR level or ST2
- Basic Life Support
Desirable
- Evidence of continuing professional updating
- Advanced Life Support
- MRCP
- Prior experience of working within NHS in the last 6 months.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Clinical knowledge and expertise, appropriate knowledge base and ability to apply sound clinical judgements to problems
- Research skills: demonstrates understanding of the importance of audit and research
Desirable
- Evidence of relevant adademic and research achievements, e.g. prizes, awards, distinctions, presentations, publications and other achievements
Skills and Ability
Essential
- Communication skills - capacity to adapt to languages
- Ability to organise and prioritise busy workloads effectively and work under pressure
- Proficient and efficient handling of medical problems
- Ability to work effectively on an on-call rota shift system
- Computer literate
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential
- MBBS or equivalent
- Full GMC registration
- MRCP Part 1 and Part 2
- Management of Acute Adult Medical Admission at SpR level or ST2
- Basic Life Support
Desirable
- Evidence of continuing professional updating
- Advanced Life Support
- MRCP
- Prior experience of working within NHS in the last 6 months.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Clinical knowledge and expertise, appropriate knowledge base and ability to apply sound clinical judgements to problems
- Research skills: demonstrates understanding of the importance of audit and research
Desirable
- Evidence of relevant adademic and research achievements, e.g. prizes, awards, distinctions, presentations, publications and other achievements
Skills and Ability
Essential
- Communication skills - capacity to adapt to languages
- Ability to organise and prioritise busy workloads effectively and work under pressure
- Proficient and efficient handling of medical problems
- Ability to work effectively on an on-call rota shift system
- Computer literate
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.
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).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
