Teaching Fellow in Acute Medicine

Job overview

We are appointing new colleagues for our medical team within the Acute Medicine Business Unit.  This is a full-time, fixed-term service appointment for 12 months.  Based at Royal Derby Hospital, the appointees will undertake duties for the Medical Services Division.

Provision of Acute and General Internal Medical Care in the Medical Assessment Unit (MAU) and Medical Same Day Emergency Care (MSDEC) at middle grade (medical registrar) level  Supervision and teaching of medical students based in Acute Medicine  Management, Audit and Patient safety opportunities. Job Holders will be expected to engage with departmental work in the above categories such as presenting a case for mortality review.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support the Acute & Specialist Medicine Business Units, specifically within acute/ general internal medicine.

Whilst on duty the post holder will be clinically and professionally responsible for their patients.

It will also be their duty to:

• communicate with patients (&/or their carers if appropriate) about their condition;
• involve patients (&/or their carers if appropriate) in decision making about their treatment;
• maintain professional standards & obligations as set out from time to time by the General
• Medical Council (GMC) & comply in particular with the GMC’s guidance on ‘Good Medical Practice’ as amended or substituted from time to time;
• carry out any work related to, & reasonably incidental to, the duties set out in their schedule of duties, e.g. keeping of records & provision of reports, proper delegation of tasks, maintaining skills & knowledge.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be expected to be flexible and to co-operate with all reasonable requests to cover for their colleagues’ absences where they are safe and competent and where it is practicable to do so. Where the post holder undertakes duties in accordance with this paragraph and such duties take place outside of their contracted hours they will receive either an equivalent off duty period or remuneration.

Where this adversely impacts on the schedule of duties and/or opportunities for individual doctors a temporary schedule of duties will be agreed for the period of cover. Where covering is not practicable, the Trust will be responsible for the engagement of a locum tenens, but the post holder will have the responsibility of bringing the need to the notice of the Trust

The post holder will be expected to contribute to graduate and continuing medical education activity locally as appropriate and to participate in clinical audit under local arrangements (in light of relevant departmental guidance).

The Medicine Division want to offer any locally employed doctor the opportunity to access support and training/supervision and will take a flexible approach for individuals wishing to gain specific skills within an area of Medicine.

A formal schedule of duties will be agreed between the post holder and the Assistant Clinical Director for the Acute Medicine Business Unit on appointment.  It will be a prospective agreement that sets out the post holder’s duties, responsibilities and objectives for the coming year.

It will cover all aspects of the post holder’s professional practice including clinical work, administration, audit, teaching and CPD responsibilities.  It will provide a clear schedule of commitments, both internal and external.  In addition, it will include personal objectives, including details of the post holder’s link to wider service objectives, and details of the support required by the post holder to meet the timetabled duties and their objectives.

The post holder will be expected to work as part of a team with responsibility for maintaining the highest standards of clinical care, for teaching of junior staff and medical students and for actively participating in continuing medical education, and department and Trust matters concerning Clinical Governance and Audit.