Senior Clinical Fellow Diabetes & Acute Medicine

Job description

Job responsibilities

Department of Diabetes:

The working week will be divided between performing ward rounds, attending outpatient clinics and attending to speciality referrals in Diabetes & Endocrinology, all under supervision of a consultant in Diabetes & Endocrinologist. The post holder will do at least one diabetes ward round and one endocrine clinic a week. The department runs a number of specialist clinics such as foot, antenatal, pumps, renal, bariatric and adolescent transitional diabetes clinics which the post holder may be able to attend depending on their training needs, in the same way as the higher speciality trainees in post.

The post holder will work 8 hours a day within Monday to Friday, rostered between 0900hrs and 1700hrs (option of 0800-1600 available). As part of a ward multi-disciplinary team, the Fellow will review patients and support consultant ward rounds to enable efficient senior decision-making and effective management of patients on their respective wards.

In addition, there are daily board rounds with the opportunity to discuss the management of the ward patients with a senior clinician. The post holder will be attached to the Diabetes team. Your attendance of out-patient clinics will be with full consultant supervision. You will be expected to work as middle-grade doctors, seeing speciality referrals and leading your junior team with full consultant support.

You will initially be based within the Department of Diabetes and work with consultants, training post and locally employed junior doctors, advanced care practitioners (ACPs), Therapists and Discharge Support Officers to deliver a responsive service to medical patients throughout the hospital. Your speciality team will give you consistent support and further learning opportunities.

The out of hours commitment is 1:9 working nights and weekends (currently).

There is consultant presence on site for the take 0800-2200 seven days a week. Overnight supervision by consultants is from home. Until 2400 each night there are three acute Medicine middle grades in the hospital.

Numerous training opportunities are available in all teams and you will be actively encouraged to access these options throughout your post.

Acute Medicine Department

The post holder will be expected to be part of the Medicine Middle Grade rota which is a full shift on-call rota including prospective cover for annual, study and bank holiday leave. A prospective cover allowance of approximately 2 hours per week is incorporated in to the job plan.

You will support the nursing team, other middle grade doctors, junior medical staff and the Consultant Physician on MAU/ACC.

Key tasks of this role are:-- Provision of medical care to the SDEC/ACC & Acute Medicine services.- Assessment and management of patients on SDEC/ACC.- Active participation in Clinical Governance, audit & teaching activities.- Administrative tasks for the services.- Keeping up to date with guidelines, protocols and clinical skills- Participating in CME & CPD- Participation in annual appraisal & job planning- Working flexibly across SDEC and ACC

Applicants must also be eligible to work in the UK and have excellent skills in written and spoken English, adequate to enable highly effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues.

All applicants must have Full GMC Registration with Licence to Practice at the time of submitting an application.

If we receive a high number of applications for this position we reserve the right to withdraw the post before the closing date, therefore it is advisable that you apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MBBS or equivalent qualification
• ALS certificate
• Part 1 MRCP

Eligibility

Essential

• Full GMC Registration with a license to practice on application
• 5 years post qualification experience including experience in Acute Medicine/ Medical specialities
• Minimum 6 months experience in the NHS within the last 2 years

Desirable

• Participation in audit
• Familiarity with clinical governance systems
• Experience at middle grade level

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).

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).

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Burton

Burton

DE13 0RB

Employer's website

https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)