Job responsibilities
Mid
Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust is pleased to advertise a clinical fellow role aimed
at doctors who are passionate about their practice and their career but who
want to take time out to develop a special interest. These jobs would also suit doctors who just want
to take time out to develop new skills and enhance their CVs. Our posts combine
protected time dedicated to your chosen special interest as well as education
and career development with practical patient-facing care.
We have a
proven track record having first run these posts in 2013; this year sees an
expansion in the number and types of clinical fellow roles we can offer.
We are able
to support clinical fellows in developing a special interest in the following
areas:
Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine in partnership with the
Yorkshire Ambulance Service
Paediatric Emergency Medicine
Medical Education
Emergency Medicine Ultra-Sound
Sports and exercise medicine
Medical management and leadership
Research Fellow
The list is
not endless and if there is something you are passionate about and wonder how
to incorporate it into a career in Emergency Medicine, please come and talk to
us about how we can help create the ideal job for you.
These posts
are not recognised UK training posts. Nevertheless, MYDoc doctors will have a
named supervisor and be supported in undertaking scheduled educational
opportunities to consolidate and develop.
An Introduction to the Specialty
The
Emergency Medicine Service is delivered on two sites within the Trust with the
Pinderfields hospital site designated as a Major Trauma Unit, Dewsbury is a
local ED and Pontefract was one of the first Urgent Treatment Centres in
England. Our multi-disciplinary team of dedicated and committed professionals
provide high quality care and treatment in what is, when combined across the
three hospitals, consistently ranked as one of the top five busiest Urgent and Emergency
Medicine services in England handling around 250,000 attendances each year.
The
majority of our Consultant team have developed special interests and have been
given the time to chase their own passions and interests. This allows them to really support our
clinical fellows in developing their own special interests as theyve already
been there.
Outlined
below are some of the things we are proud of as a service:
We are an Associate
Teaching Hospital and have won national awards for the quality of our
undergraduate Emergency Medicine teaching program.
Were closely involved in the West Yorkshire
Acceleration Zone looking at trialling different projects to improve our
Emergency Care Standard performance.
Were part of the MERIT programme and take part in
regular exercises to practise dealing with major incidents. The last one
involved setting up an Advanced Casualty Clearing Station (ACCS) close to a
major shopping centre as part of an exercise looking at emergency response for
a terrorist incident. Ours is the only region in the country which has a MERIT
response like this, meaning we are one of only five acute trusts in the country
which undertakes these types of response and sends a team to an ACCS. We do
incident training every three years in terms of live exercising and all the ED
staff get the opportunity to do a table-top exercise each year.
The Trust has spent the last three years reconfiguring
services across its hospitals Pinderfields, Dewsbury and Pontefract one of
the largest reconfiguration projects in the country.
Weve been involved in the first few of an ongoing
series of Rapid Process Improvement Workshops (RPIW). These have been
instigated as part of a new Quality Improvement Process for the Trust and they
are based on the world-renowned Virginia Mason lean production methodologies.
We have a
great track record in developing our doctors and providing robust educational
opportunities for all staff within the service.
The Service Role
These posts will be part of our
cross-site trainee rota, which is compliant with working time regulations and
the 2016 junior doctors contract, averaging 48 hours per week.
Acute care at Mid-Yorkshire is now
focussed primarily on our Pinderfields Hospital site although all our doctors
are involved in delivering care to patients on all our sites, with support and
supervision from senior colleagues.
The main duties of the post will
include:
Provision of care
with responsibility for the management of patients presenting to the ED.
Referral of
patients to other specialities as appropriate
Dedicated special
interest day per week
Involvement in
specialty and cross-specialty multi-disciplinary teams and meetings
Involvement in
relevant administration duties
Teaching and
supervision of junior medical staff and other clinicians as appropriate
Active involvement
in audit and clinical governance including service improvement activities
The above
list is not intended to be exhaustive and it is likely duties may be altered
from time to time in the light of changing circumstances and after discussion
with the post holder.
Terms
& Conditions and Tenure
Employment
will be as a MYDoc Clinical Fellow on Trust Terms and Conditions of Service.
The MYDoc Clinical Fellow posts are
initially offered on a fixed term contract for 12 months.
Pay Scale
These roles are equivalent to a doctor on specialty training programmes
and will be paid on the equivalent pay scale. The basic salary for this
role is £61,825 per annum. Additional payments relating to the rota will be
paid on top of the basic salary.
The MYDoc
Training Programme Educational Input & Recognition
Doctors
appointed to a MYDoc post will receive personalised educational input. Each doctor
will be allocated an Educational Supervisor and will develop a Personalised
Work Schedule.
Appraisal & Revalidation
This post
is not recognised for training and brings with it an obligation to engage with
the process of revalidation on an annual basis.
All our Trust appointed doctors are required to
engage positively with appraisal and revalidation. The Trust
has procedures that comply with national recommendations. As a Trust employed
doctor on a fixed term contract successfully appointed applicants will need to
have a precribed connection with Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust via GMC
Connect and will therefore have Dr Karen Stone the Medical Director at the
Trust as their GMC Responsible Officer
Continuing Professional Development
The Trust requires all its doctors to
engage with continuing professional development, guided by the relevant
professional associations or Royal Colleges. Time and funding is provided
according to departmental and Trust policies, subject to approval through the
clinical management structures. There is a programme of mandatory training
which all relevant staff must complete as required.
Research
Medical
staff are encouraged to develop areas of personal and/or research interest.
This can be developed in liaison with the Trusts R&D department and in
line with prevailing policies and research frameworks. The Trust is developing
an expanding and outward-looking research programme.
Educational & Clinical Supervision
The post holder will have a named educational supervisor and be expected
to hold regular meetings with them during their tenure to ensure appropriate
development during their appointment.
Teaching
The Trust is keen to maintain its
reputation for high quality training and to attract the highest calibre of
trainee and career-grade doctors. All senior doctors are involved in training
our doctors, students and other professions. There are many opportunities to
develop training and education roles and many have taken on educational
leadership roles within and beyond the Trust.
Audit and Clinical Governance
There is a rolling half-day clinical
governance programme and audit meetings are well attended and lively. The
Clinical Audit Department assists with setting and supporting an audit
programme for the Service with which all colleagues are encouraged to engage.
Clinical Audit is considered within objectives as part of job planning.
