Trust Doctor in Acute Medicine

Job overview

This post is available to employees of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and resident doctors employed by the Lead Employer Trust within North East and North Cumbria.

We have an opportunity for a Trust Doctor in Acute Medicine, based at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH).

This role will balance your clinical time between our busy Acute Medicine inpatient unit (AMU) and our Medical Ambulatory Care (MAC) unit (which delivers same-day emergency care or SDEC). Your training needs will be discussed with a Clinical Supervisor during an initial meeting, to take full advantage of the opportunities highlighted below. Our team of Acute Medicine Consultant Physicians come from a diverse range of clinical backgrounds, including Clinical Infection, Elderly Medicine and Critical Care.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

The type of clinical work and learning opportunities to expect:

• Ø  Working on busy AMU and Medical Ambulatory Care unit

Educational opportunities

• Ø  Enhance your skills in taking a targeted medical history Ø  Understand how ambulatory care can contribute to safe admission-avoidance Ø  Gain confidence with communication skills with both patients and their families Ø  Understand team-working and leadership, and the roles of all members of the team Ø  Understand the role of imaging and investigations, and how urgently these investigations may be needed. Ø  Learn to work and lead a multidisciplinary team Ø  Gain confidence with paracentesis, lumbar punctures and other procedures, and training junior trainees in these where appropriate. Ø  Development of diagnostic, management and communication skills Ø  Attend / present interesting or challenging cases at our departmental meetings Ø  Consider Quality Improvement / Clinical Audit opportunities within our department

Working pattern:

To be confirmed at interview, but likely to be full-shift, including day shifts and twilight shifts in SDEC and AMU.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Our Acute Medicine inpatient ward works in parallel alongside the other NSECH specialty admission wards (e.g. respiratory, cardiology, gastroenterology and elderly medicine).

The AMU is our specialist in-patient ward for:

We also look after our share of acute General Medical admissions. Every day there is shop-floor presence of Consultant Physician(s) from 8am-8pm.

Training needs will be discussed with an educational supervisor during an initial meeting, to take full advantage of the opportunities highlighted in the job description.