Job responsibilities
POST SUMMARY:
- Applications are invited for Foundation year 3 posts offered by the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, based at the Alexandra Hospital, Redditch. These posts are for a period of 6 months with the potential to extend..
- These posts are not Deanery posts. However, the posts are structured to provide a portfolio-based Postgraduate Training Programme similar to the Deanery model. The Trust is committed to providing the medical training content.
The posts are for 6 months on a 08:30 16:30 Monday to Friday basis. Opportunities are available to cover weekend shifts through a bank.
- The successful candidates will be welcomed to join the weekly teaching sessions and Grand Rounds. In-house training will be provided for PACES/MRCP part II, and study leave will be available to help candidates prepare for the examinations.
- Duties of the posts include care of acute medical admissions to hospital and short stay inpatients. Participation in audit and research is encouraged. Training will be supervised by a named consultant.
- The typical candidate should have completed foundation year 1-2 training and are suitable for those with an interest in a career in medical specialities, or would like to sample a wider range of medical specialities prior to further training. Completion of the post should help prepare the candidate for further specialist training in the UK or abroad.
WORCESTERSHIRE GENERAL BACKGROUND
Worcestershire is a largely rural County, with four main towns, Bromsgrove, Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester, lying between the Cotswolds, Welsh Border and Birmingham. There are four further substantial market towns of Malvern, Pershore, Evesham and Droitwich. Acute medical services are provided by two District General Hospitals, a Treatment Centre and a number of Community hospitals.
The major motorway network of the M42, M5 and M6, providing excellent communications, intersect the county. Local leisure facilities are well developed and the area has easy access to Birmingham/Solihull where the National Indoor Arena, International Convention Centre with the Birmingham Symphony Hall and the National Exhibition Centre are located. Stratford and the Royal Shakespeare Company are on the doorstep. Worcester City lying on the banks of the River Severn has the world famous cathedral, County Cricket Ground, Premiership Rugby and is home to the Royal Worcester Porcelain Factory. The Malvern Hills and the Wyre Forest are in the locality.
TRUST PROFILE
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust runs services from three main hospital sites: The Alexandra Hospital, Redditch; Kidderminster Hospital and Treatment Centre; and The Worcestershire Royal Hospital.
We also run some services and clinics at The Princess of Wales Hospital, Bromsgrove (outpatient clinics); Evesham Community Hospital (Burlingham Ward); Malvern Community Hospital (outpatient clinics); and Tenbury Community Hospital (outpatient clinics).
We have three main commissioners: Redditch and Bromsgrove Clinical Commissioning Group; South Worcestershire Clinical Commissioning Group; and Wyre Forest Clinical Commissioning Group.
We have an annual budget of £350million and service a population of more than 550,000 providing a wide range of surgical, medical and rehabilitation services. We have nearly 6,000 staff and provide services predominantly to the people of Worcestershire. However, patients do also come from further afield, most notably from Herefordshire, Dudley, South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire and Birmingham. Every year we care for nearly 800,000 patients including 90,000 people who need operations, 130,000 people in A&E and 500,000 outpatients. More than 6,300 babies are born in our Trust every year.
ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL, REDDITCH
The Alexandra Hospital in Redditch opened in 1985. It serves a population of approximately 200,000 and has 360 beds. The hospital is the major centre for the countys urology service. The hospital has seven operating theatres, MRI and CT scanners and cancer unit status for breast, lung, urology, gynaecology and colorectal cancers. There is a multi-disciplinary education centre with library, teaching and study areas.
Our plan for the Alexandra Hospital is to increase the amount of planned elective activity carried out at the hospital, especially in orthopaedics.
KIDDERMINSTER TREATMENT CENTRE
Kidderminster Hospital houses Kidderminster Treatment Centre which offers outstanding clinical facilities and patient accommodation for a wide range of daycase, short stay and inpatient procedures. The nurse-led minor injuries service is open 24 hours a day and treats more than 2,000 patients every month. It can deal with a wide variety of injuries including simple fractures, soft tissue injuries, lacerations, bites, burns and scaled. Other facilities at the Kidderminster site include a full range of outpatient clinics including outpatient cancer treatment in the Millbrook Suite MRI and CT scanners and a renal dialysis unit. There is also a modern education centre with seminar rooms, IT suite, library and break out areas.
Our plan for Kidderminster is to increase the number of daycase, short stay and inpatient procedures performed and for it to become an elective centre for the Trust.
WORCESTERSHIRE ROYAL HOSPITAL
Worcestershire Royal Hospital is the latest of the Trusts three sites. The main hospital was built under the private finance initiative (PFI) and opened in 2002. It provides specialist services for the whole of Worcestershire including stroke services and cardiac stenting. The hospital has nine operating theatres including four laminar theatres. It has a level 2 neonatal intensive care unit and a cardiac catheterisation laboratory. The 24/7 Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI) service began in October 2013. It has 500 beds and serves a population of more than 550,000.
The countys brand new, state-of-the-art Oncology Centre was officially opened by HRH the Princess Royal in April 2015. Developed in partnership with University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, the £25 million Worcestershire Oncology Centre will enable 95 per cent of radiotherapy to be delivered within Worcestershire. For patients, their families and their carers, who previously had to travel to Coventry, Cheltenham or Wolverhampton for radiotherapy treatment, cancer services will be more accessible than ever, saving an estimated one million miles of travel every year.
Our plan for the Worcestershire Royal is for it to specialise in more complex and tertiary services for patients from across the county, giving them access to services that they would previously have had to travel out of county for. We have recently opened our state-of-the-art Worcestershire Oncology Centre, which will provide radiotherapy services in county for the first time. Other developments include a dedicated Breast Unit which opened in 2016.
Foundation year 3 POST
These posts are designed to offer experience and training to doctors who have completed foundation year 1-2 training and are suitable for those with an interest in a career in medical specialities, or would like to sample a wider range of medical specialities prior to further training.
Working as a foundation year 3 post in this Trust will combine exposure to acute unselected general medicine, with structured teaching to suit individual doctors.
F3 doctors will be allocated a consultant supervisor and will be welcomed to join the weekly teaching sessions and Grand Rounds. In-house training is provided for PACES/MRCP part II, and study leave will be available to help candidates attend courses to prepare for the examinations.
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching.
The Trusts inpatient hospitals are Associate Teaching Hospitals with the University of Birmingham Medical School, and take part in undergraduate teaching of medical students in their third, fourth and final years. There is also an active postgraduate training programme co-produced with the West Midlands Postgraduate Deanery for CT1, CT2 and GP VTS training, as well as Specialist Registrar training in most specialties. These programmes include consultant supervision through consultants acting as clinical and educational supervisors, weekly protected teaching time, and a training portfolio logbook of clinical competencies and procedures. The Trust is already working closely with the University of Worcesters Institute of Health and Society and seeking ways of extending this collaboration.
DUTIES OF THE POST
General Duties - the details will differ in different Departments.
Inpatients consultant and registrar ward rounds, ward referrals.
Acute medicine on-call
Outpatients 1-2 clinics per week.
Observation and assisting the consultant or registrar with relevant procedures and investigations.
Attendance at multidisciplinary team meetings
Attendance at Grand Rounds and other Medical Meetings
Attendance at scheduled teaching sessions
Participation in audit projects.
Participation in Mortality & Morbidity case reviews.
TEACHING, AUDIT AND RESEARCH
The Consultants are keen to encourage audit and research projects. There is an active Clinical Audit Programme and audit meetings are held once in two months for a full afternoon. All Medical Departments take part in the audit projects regularly and the Fellow will be expected to contribute by undertaking and presenting audits.
