Junior Clinical Fellow in General Internal Medicine

Job overview

The successful applicant will be a doctor wishing to develop their skills and knowledge of general medicine. The successful appointee will support the care of the General Internal Medicine in-patients on our General Internal Medicine ward . The post will also provide rotational opportunities to work on our Medicine Wards, this will include possible opportunities to work within Diabetes and Endocrine and/or Respiratory.

Clinical: ward-based duties to include routine review of patients, progressing care, prescribing, requesting and evaluating relevant tests, liaising with all medical and allied health professionals.

Education: there are educational opportunities throughout the working week including educational meetings, general medical grand round and core training.

This post would give excellent experience prior to an application for higher training in Respiratory or General Internal Medicine. It would also be a great opportunity for a candidate interested in GP training to gain additional skills or a special interest.  The post will be whole-time (part time or job share will be considered, please contact to discuss).

Main duties of the job

Clinical and Supervision

• The post holder will be expected to carry out ward-based duties, to include routine review of patients, progressing care, prescribing, requesting and evaluating relevant tests, liaising with all medical and allied health professionals.
• There will also be opportunity to attend specialty outpatient clinics. The post-holders will have a Consultant Clinical Supervisor and encouraged to follow the training curriculum, including participation in appraisal.

Managerial

• The management responsibility of the post holder will be to the Clinical Director for Medicine who is responsible to the Chief Executive and Trust Board.

Clinical Audit and Clinical Governance

• The post holder must be aware of clinical governance and clinical risk management and take an active part in their implementation, including audit. Clinical audit is established at the BRI.
• Participate in at least one supervised audit project during the post and will be encouraged to attend interdisciplinary clinical governance meetings.

On-Call Commitment

The successful applicant may have the option to join the existing medical CMT on-call rota throughout the post, however this is only by arrangement and availability.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more comprehensive breakdown of the duties and responsibilities please see the job description attached to the vacancy.