Junior Clinical Fellow in Acute Medicine

3 weeks ago


Preston, United Kingdom Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

In this role you will be working within a supportive and educationally focussed environment, you will be providing junior level experience (equivalent to FY2/ST1-2) in a teaching hospital within all the main medical sub-specialities.

This post is based at Royal Preston Hospital, and you will be an integral part of our team and will be involved directly with the day-to-day functioning of Medical Assessment Unit (MAU), Emergency department (ED) and Same day emergency care (SDEC). There may be some cross site working as and when required.

Working alongside our consultants in this role you would assess and manage Acute medical common presentations.

We are keen to develop our junior doctors, all junior clinical fellows are allocated an educational supervisor who will work with you to ensure you are developing your skills and knowledge within the role, you will support you to maintain logbooks and portfolio.

The Junior Clinical Fellow will be supervised by Dr Munish Batra. Individual appraisals will be carried out on a regular basis.

You will have opportunities to get involved in weekly teaching sessions in MAU, as a Junior Clinical Fellow can expect extensive training in every aspect of Acute Medicine and ambulatory care.

You will also be responsible for the teaching undergraduate students firm attached to Acute Medicine and foundation doctors working in Acute Medicine.

**Main duties will include the following**:
For GIM specialities
- In patient management of patients admitted under the speciality team
- Day to day care of patients under the supervision of senior medical staff
- Assessing patients, organising investigations, interpreting and acting on results
- Attending and contributing to ward rounds
- Performing relevant practical procedures where competent
- Completing appropriate paperwork for patients on discharge and liaising with other specialist teams and GPs regarding relevant follow up

For acute medicine
- Assessing patients referred by GPs or ED for admission to the acute medical unit, making comprehensive assessments, ordering appropriate investigations, interpreting results and formulating initial management plans for patients under supervision by senior medical staff
- Day to day care of patients admitted to the short stay unit
- Attending and contributing to ward rounds on the short stay unit
- Performing relevant practical procedures where competent
- Completing appropriate paperwork for patients on discharge and liaising with other specialist teams and GPs regarding relevant follow up.

MAU in Royal Preston Hospital has 33 beds and is managed by Acute Physicians and outlier teams jointly. There are opportunities to perform basic medical procedures and get involved in day-to-day care of patients and ward jobs. As major cohort of patients are at front door, Acute Medicine team provides in reach into ED and performs post takes and Day 2 patient reviews.

MAU at Chorley has 23 beds with 2 GP lounges. There is a designated team led by consultants who perform daily ward rounds.

There are six consultants who work within the Department of Acute Medicine across both sites

Please refer to the attached Job description, Person specification and Specialty/ Trust Brochure for further details on:

- What we can offer
- Job Plan/On-call Requirements
- The Team



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