50/50 Trust Fellow: General Surgery
1 week ago
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust has a Trust Fellow posts to support education, quality improvement and the clinical service within General Surgery with impact also across the wider Trust. This 12-month, fixed-term Trust Fellow post involve 50% clinical work and 50% education, and also have the option of a funded postgraduate certificate in education, simulation, leadership and management or similar (maximum £3500 course fees funded per enrolee).
Post holder will be allocated a Clinical and Educational Supervisor, with regular meetings to support their clinical practice and their educational professional development.
Post holder will deliver undergraduate teaching on behalf of the Peninsula Medical School and/or University of Exeter Medical School academic day and placement programmes. Trust Fellows will need to work closely with the other Trust Fellows and Academic F2s - as well as other academic and quality improvement roles across the Trust - in regards to organising education and teaching delivery, and project work coordination.
Priorities and learning objectives will be identified and agreed between each post holder and their educational supervisor and/or College Tutor as part of their induction and will take into account both the Trust and specialty objectives and priorities. Flexibility will be given to the non-clinical work depending on the interests and experience required of each individual post holder.
Less than full-time working is supported.
Posts will be offered based on scoring at interview.
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated health and care organisation. We provide health and social care services to our people in their own homes or in their local community. We also run Torbay Hospital (providing acute hospital services) as well as five community hospitals, stretching from Dawlish to Brixham. We are passionate about creating a fair and more inclusive NHS for everyone.
We support around 500,000 face-to-face contacts with patients in their homes and communities each year and see over 78,000 people in our Emergency Department annually.
We serve a resident population of approximately 286,000 people, plus about 100,000 visitors at any one time during the summer holiday season.
We employ over 6,500 staff, including doctors, nurses, occupational therapists, social workers, SAS doctors, consultants, and physiotherapists, as well as highly skilled managers, administrators and technical experts. Our people work in a wide range of settings and locations across our communities, depending on their individual role or circumstances.
See job description for more information about the Emergency Medicine, Acute Medicine and Surgery teams.
Main duties of the job - specifics of the non-clinical work
Post holders will teach medical students and foundation doctors in a formal and informal capacity. This includes contributing to the delivery of simulation training, journal clubs, specialty-specific teaching and on-the-ward teaching. Post holders will deliver teaching sessions within the year 5 undergraduate academic programmes, covering the topics of prescribing, foundation principles, communication skills and simulation training. Post holders will also have the opportunity to undertake projects in quality improvement, research and service development, aiming to improve training, patient care, staff workload and patient safety within:
Undergraduate education;
Postgraduate education;
Digital research;
Immersive VR technologies;
Simulation teaching/training.
There is also the opportunity to design, develop and deliver extra curricula teaching opportunities for all junior doctors within the Trust as part of the local, non-core teaching programme, in collaboration with the other Trust Fellows and Academic F2s
Main duties of the job - specifics of the clinical work
Posts will be ward-based or Emergency Department-based as acute generalists looking after patients. On-call requirements will vary depending on the specific clinical area and rota.
**Main duties include**:
Supervise, monitor and assist the F1 doctor in the day-to-day management of inpatients where specialties have an attached F1;
Liaise between nurses, F1 and F2 doctors, patients, relatives and senior medical staff;
Attend and participate in ward rounds and multi-disciplinary rounds as timetabled;
Completion of discharge summaries;
Study for higher examination and maintain continued professional development (including membership exams where appropriate);
Attend weekly educational and multidisciplinary sessions;
Supervise medical students where appropriate;
Co-operate with members of the personnel department when monitoring hours of work and other personnel issues;
Attend induction in each new department;
Support induction of new staff members;
Comply with all local policies including dress code, annual and study leave.
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