Specialist in General Medicine

Job overview

Our Trust is committed to career development which allows us to look out for individuals who are proactive, motivated, forward thinking, and dynamic to join our clinical team. These posts are an important part of our ongoing development of services at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. We are seeking specialists with enthusiasm, commitment and drive to work closely with colleagues throughout the organisation and within the community to help lead the organisation. These are 2 fixed term posts based at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage

This is an excellent opportunity to join the team at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. The successful candidates will jointly manage patients in a newly created 24-bedded general medical ward. This is the designated clinical area for managing patients with acute medical complex presentations, including often in association with known oncological/haematological malignancies.

Main duties of the job

will be delivering in-patient care on a 24 bedded ward with some outlier patient care commitments. The patients will be a mix of GIM and those with ongoing oncology or haematology conditions presenting with inter-current illnesses. Being able to lead in complex MDT discussions on ongoing care and making advanced care planning decisions will be essential. Sessions will be available to deliver speciality OP work or sessions within acute medicine or a sessions as feasible working at Addenbrookes with the Infectious Disease Team. There will be expectation to contribute to the Physician of the Day rota for unselected medical take on weekdays and weekends.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached – job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.