FT Clinical Fellow ST3+ Level in General Medicine

Job overview

Applications are invited for Fixed Term Clinical Fellow ST3+ Level in General Medicine (Rotations). These posts are available for a fixed term of 6 months.

The role involves working collaboratively as part of a team to provide optimal medical care to patients. Responsibilities include supervising and teaching junior staff on the ward, maintaining effective communication with relatives and carers, and collaborating closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure coordinated and comprehensive patient care.

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Closing date: This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

We seek a candidate who can join the trust immediately.

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Main duties of the job

Main duties of the Job

• General ward work and on-going care of in-patients. • Support and supervise foundation year trainees. • Maintenance of ward lists. • Handover of patients to on call and hospital at night teams. • Consultant ward rounds. • Attendance at MDTs and board rounds. • Attend outpatients. • On call as per rota including night shifts. • Participate in ward and medical directorate clinical governance. • Issue death certificate and provide statement for coroner’s referral or evidence.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The department of Medicine is run on an integrated acute medicine and care of the elderly ward-based system, with most wards having at least three consultants, two Specialty Registrars, three Specialty Registrars/F2 trainees and three F1 trainees. F1 trainees are regularly rostered to clerking shifts on AAU under the supervision of the physician of the day. In the evenings and at weekends medical wards are covered by two F1 trainees, with support from the rest of the on-call team. At night the hospital is covered by a hospital at night team run by the specialist registrar and including F2 trainees and enhanced trained nurses. F1 trainees no longer work at night within the hospital. Formal handover to the hospital at night-time is an important component of the post for the on call F1 trainees.

Each ward has their own ward-based team of juniors including combinations of FY1, FY2, ST1 and ST2 trainees. Each ward also has ward based StR(s) and a combination of medical and COE consultants. The division runs a ‘physician of the day’ system, to cover the acute on call and provide a daily post take ward round of those admissions not retained in AAU or the short stay facilities.

Each ward operates a daily consultant multidisciplinary red to green board round to facilitate early discharge and to ensure all patients have daily consultant input.

Our Acute Admissions Unit (AAU) is in operation and comprises of short stay trolleys and a dedicated Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) area.

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