Clinical Fellow Marie Curie (REACT) Team Bradford

Job description

Job responsibilities

This innovative, fixed term post is designed for a Higher Specialist Trainee (or equivalent) in Internal Medicine/Acute Medicine or an existing Palliative Medicine Trainee to:

• Develop their skills in the holistic assessment of patients
• Gain experience in service development, audit and quality improvement.
• Gain a qualification in Palliative Medicine or Medical Education subject to approval

The successful candidate will work for Marie Curie REACT reviewing patients in the Emergency Department and the community.

The postholders role within the REACT service will involve working closely with medical and nursing colleagues within Palliative and Emergency Medicine to identify and support patients presenting to ED with unmet palliative care needs as well as reviewing patients in the community as part of the REACT virtual ward. The community virtual ward will involve working closely with Clinical Nurse Specialists, Specialty Doctors and Health Care Assistants.

The postholder will be encouraged to take an active role in audit and service development where there will be opportunities to present this work both locally and regionally. Depending on the skills of the postholder there may be opportunities to be involved in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and the education of allied health professionals.

The candidate will be expected to help deliver Medical Education within Emergency Medicine and Marie Curie REACT.

The successful applicant will work up to 1 in 4 weekends (daytime shifts) for REACT.

This is an innovative new post working in the Emergency Department providing Palliative Medicine in reach, and reviewing patients in the community as part of the Marie Curie REACT virtual ward.

Marie Curie REACT launched in June 2022 and to date it has successfully supported over 1000 patients. It is part of a national innovation programme which aims to improve outcomes for people at the end of life. This service was selected out of 40 applications to be awarded transformation funding and support from The End of Life Integrator. The End of Life Care Integrator was set up in 2016 following partnership work with organisations including the Department of Health and the NHS Confederation.

There is currently 1 LTFT consultant within Marie Curie REACT at BTHFT, Dr Clare Rayment (Clinical Lead for Palliative Medicine). The community arm of the service is a virtual ward delivered from Marie Curie Hospice, Bradford. The team consists of a Nurse Manager, clinical nurse specialists, health care assistants, 2 LTFT specialty doctors and a physiotherapist. A new consultant post is being advertised to support the development of the virtual ward.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Previous experience relevant to the specialty: At least 3 years post foundation in medicine or acute care specialities
• Applicant knowledge is up to date and is fit to practice safely Commitment for managing professional development
• Experience in making clinical decisions and managing risk

Desirable

• Clinical governance / audit experience
• Out of hours experience relevant to job.

Skills

Essential

• Proven ability to work in different clinical settings
• Clear communication skills
• Organisation and planning
• Empathy and sensitivity
• All applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues demonstrated by one of the following: -that applicants have undertaken undergraduate medical training in English; or -have achieved the following scores in the academic International English Language Testing System (IELTS) in a single sitting within 24 months at time of application - Overall 7, Speaking 7, Listening 7, Reading 7, Writing 7. IELTS certificate to be presented at interview. If applicants believe they have adequate communication skills but do not fit into one of these examples they must provide supporting evidence

Desirable

• Interest in teaching and management
• Multilingual

Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
• Understanding of equality and diversity issues and how this affects patients, visitors and staff
• Understanding of what the NHS Constitution means to you, and your responsibilities to the public, patients and colleagues.
• Acute care safe - up to date ALS
• Relevant specialty clinical knowledge
• MRCP or equivalent
• Essential specialty specific competencies for the post should be listed along with required evidence.

Desirable

• Recent IMT 3 experience

Qualifications

Essential

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• Eligible for full registration with the GMC at time of appointment
• Three years Clinical Experience post foundation by the time of appointment in line with GMC standards in Good Medical Practice
• Evidence of maintenance and development of clinical skills after finishing foundation programme

Desirable

• Further qualifications relevant to Emergency Medicine
• Further qualifications relevant to Palliative Medicine
• Further qualifications relevant to Medicine Specialities

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.

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

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bradford Teaching Hospitals/Marie Curie Hospice

Bradford

BD9 6RJ

Employer's website

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