Specialty registrar/Clinical Fellow/ST3+ in Acute Medicine

4 days ago

Reading, United Kingdom Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate aspiring to a career in Acute Medicine, the AMU medical team seek an enthusiastic individual to join their team. The successful applicants will be part of a broad team consisting of 11 Consultant physicians, specialty trainees in acute medicine and internal medicine, specialty doctors, GP trainees, FY3 doctors, physician associates and advanced nurse practitioners.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work within the Department of Acute Medicine, managing patients and providing cover to the Acute Medical Unit 8am-8pm. The Acute Medicine team is responsible for 4 areas, and the post-holder will be involved in the management of patients in all these areas:

The Higher Monitoring Unit (HMU) is a 7 bedded unit for the most severely unwell medical patients outside of ICU. It provides a 2:1 nursing ratio, continuous non-invasive cardiovascular and oxygen saturation monitoring and level 2 respiratory support (non-invasive ventilation and high flow nasal oxygen). The Acute Medical Unit (AMU) is a 46 bedded unit where acute medicine patients are managed in their first 24 hours of admission, with the aim of diagnosing, treating and discharging patients, or transferring them to a specialty ward. Same Day Emergency Care, based on the Short Stay Unit aims to diagnose, treat and discharge patients referred to hospital as an emergency on the same day. It has a dedicated nursing and medical team, with access to rapid diagnostics and prompt specialty input if necessary. The Virtual Acute Care Unit is rapidly developing and expanding, being particularly strong in treating infectious disease on a virtual basis. A dedicated team, led by consultants, review and monitor patients remotely on a daily basis, reducing hospital admissions and allowing people to be cared for in their own homes.

About us

The Royal Berkshire was rated as an 'Outstanding' Hospital by the CQC in January 2018, and was ranked as the number one place to complete foundation training in 2017. We are a very large District General hospital, with a successful track record of delivering high quality acute medical and surgical services to 500,000 patients across West Berkshire.

The Trust is one of the largest general hospital trusts in the country, and is Reading's biggest employer. The hospital provides all those services normally associated with a very large District General Hospital, with all major specialities represented on a single site, including Accident and Emergency, all major Medical Specialties including a Cardiac Care Unit and renal dialysis, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Intensive Care, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, major Surgical Specialties and Paediatrics.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see job description.

In all our areas there are daily consultant ward rounds. All of our consultants are trained and work in a second specialty including intensive care medicine, geriatric medicine, respiratory medicine, stroke medicine and endocrinology. This provides a huge breadth of knowledge for the management of our patients, and we work closely together as a team, discussing our patients in a daily MDT.

Person Specification

Qualifications and knowledge

Essential

Full GMC Registration. MBBS or equivalent medical qualification Clinical Knowledge & Expertise: Appropriate knowledge base and ability to apply sound clinical judgement. Evidence of competence to work without direct supervision where appropriate Capacity to manage/prioritise time and information effectively. Capacity to prioritise own workload & organise ward rounds .

Personal Skills

Essential

Demonstrates clarity in written/spoken communication & capacity to adapt language as appropriate to the situation. Able to build rapport, listen, persuade & negotiate Capacity to use logical/lateral thinking to solve problems/make decisions, indicating an analytical/scientific approach. Able to work in multi-professional teams & supervise junior medical staff.

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