Trust Registrar in Acute Medicine

Job summary

Are looking for your next step within Acute Medicine?

This Acute Medicine position is to support the increased expansion and development of our Same Day Emergency Care Unit (SDEC) and Acute Medical Units (AMU - McGill) at Royal Hampshire County Hospital (RHCH).

We envisage that the successful candidate will be working in Acute Medical Unit, thereby providing a wide breadth of acute medicine experience in these consultant led area.

This post provides an excellent opportunity to strengthen your clinical acumen, diagnostic and practical skills in acute medicine, with real time consultant feedback and supervision. This post also provides an opportunity for candidates to further develop their teaching experience by providing a dedicated time to help run AMU teaching, simulating training, mock paces, Regular paces exams, medical student programmed teaching including virtual on call training. Consideration for Portfolio Pathway (CESR Programme) will be given.

Main duties of the job

This post provides an excellent opportunity to strengthen your clinical acumen, diagnostic and practical skills in acute medicine, with real time consultant feedback and supervision.

This is also an opportunity for candidates to further develop their teaching experience by providing a dedicated time to help run AMU teaching, simulating training, mock paces, Regular paces exams, medical student programmed teaching including virtual on call training.

About us

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT) provides hospital services to around 570,000 people living in Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire, and specialist services to patients from all over the country. We deliver a full range of district hospital services in a variety of locations.

Our department has a strong sense of teamwork, pride and provides opportunities for professional development. The acute medicine Consultants are fully committed to a programme of teaching, and appointees are supervised similarly to formal trainees in terms of clinical and pastoral support as well as portfolio guidance. Successful candidates are actively encouraged to partake in regular quality improvement projects, weekly AMU teaching, medical grand round, mortality and morbidity meeting and the completion of MRCP exam.

Job responsibilities

Patient assessment

Clerk and post take administration; writing in patients notes

Undertake patient reviews

Promptly update patients systems.

Attend clinics (Acute Medicine)

Attend Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings

Facilitate daily board round with MDT

Triage to medical teams /acute physicians as appropriate

Participates in ward rounds

Liaising with patient families to discuss patients progress, goals and achievable outcomes

Liaising with patients respecting their right to reach decisions about their treatment, care and wishes for discharge destination.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential

• MBBS or equivalent
• Full GMC registration
• MRCP Part 1 and Part 2
• Management of Acute Adult Medical Admission at SpR level or ST2
• Basic Life Support

Desirable

• Evidence of continuing professional updating
• Advanced Life Support
• MRCP
• Prior experience of working within NHS in the last 6 months.

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• Clinical knowledge and expertise, appropriate knowledge base and ability to apply sound clinical judgements to problems
• Research skills: demonstrates understanding of the importance of audit and research

Desirable

• Evidence of relevant adademic and research achievements, e.g. prizes, awards, distinctions, presentations, publications and other achievements

Skills and Ability

Essential

• Communication skills - capacity to adapt to languages
• Ability to organise and prioritise busy workloads effectively and work under pressure
• Proficient and efficient handling of medical problems
• Ability to work effectively on an on-call rota shift system
• Computer literate