Specialty Doctor in Urgent Treatment Centre

Job overview

Applicants are invited to apply for a Specialty Doctor in Urgent Treatment Centre post,

The post will be Urgent Treatment clinical care allowing an opportunity for doctors wanting to gain experience and responsibility in not just managing patients but managing a busy department (at Registrar level).

As a Trust, we place high importance on staff wellbeing, you will be offered a wide variety of support to help you maintain your wellbeing and to help colleagues maintain theirs. The Trusts Health and Wellbeing team has won a National Award during 2020 for the work they have done locally.

• The Trust’s overriding vision is to provide the highest quality services to our local population and so to be the hospital of choice.  This vision is linked to key goals:
• Improve satisfaction and confidence in our services.
• Continue to be the local healthcare provider of choice.
• To provide clinically appropriate and safe outreach services in the community which meet commissioners and patients.
• To maximise the value of being a Foundation Trust by ensuring our services are embedded in and valued by our community

Main duties of the job

The Duties outlined below are not definitive and may be changed in accordance with the needs of the service.

The post holder under the direction of senior colleagues will undertake the below duties, these are not definitive and may be changed in accordance with the needs of the service.

• Take a history and examine a patient
• Identify and synthesize problems
• Prescribe safely
• Keep an accurate and relevant medical record (electronic notes)
• Manage time and clinical priorities effectively
• Communicate effectively with patients, relatives and colleagues
• Use evidence, guidelines and audit to benefit patient care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are a busy DGH Urgent Treatment Centre that sees a wide variety of presentations (in both adult and paediatric). We deal with medical, surgical, orthopaedic, paediatric and trauma patients.

40% of the time will be spent undertaking departmental innovation/quality improvement projects. The ideal candidate will be a doctor who wishes to take time to do more leadership, education and innovation. You may wish to discover your leadership, management and influencing skills. You may have a passion to enhance your medico–associated skills such as development of new pathways, finding solutions to problems or systems design. You will be dynamic, self-driven and able to manage your time.

Further details can be found on the attached job description.