Job summary
Are you looking to expand your skills? Would you thrive working in a large, supportive acute hospital with great teaching opportunities? If you are ready to expand your clinical skills, gain exposure, consolidate learning, progress your career and most importantly, directly influence the care that we provide to all our patients, we have the perfect opportunity for you.
Job Summary:
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and highly motivated doctor, who is committed to excellence to join our dynamic team. This post will be for a fixed term period.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
The post holders will contribute to the delivery of a high quality service, helping to drive a multi-disciplinary team approach to care within the specialty.
Duties will include:
- Taking referrals from the emergency department and providing medical opinions for patients in ED including the resuscitation bay;
- Reviewing patients on AMU;
- Providing support for Resident Doctors working on AMU including carrying out and supervising bedside procedures;
- Assessing patients in an Ambulatory Emergency Care setting;
- Taking part in the general medical registrar rota which includes weekend and night shifts;
- Ensure discharge summaries are completed in a timely manner and communicate with GPs and other clinical colleagues as required;
- Maintain continued professional development;
- Attend educational and multidisciplinary sessions;
- Teach medical students, Core doctors and Foundation doctors;
- Comply with all local policies including dress code, annual and study leave.
About us
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.
Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We know the importance of supported learning opportunities and are proud of the encouraging environment that our team cultivates we promise departmental teaching, MDT meetings, grand rounds and journal clubs as well as study leave. We have an excellent record of junior doctors progressing on to formal training programmes. You will have the opportunity to be involved with our active research unit, working in partnership with the University of Portsmouth, and currently have a number of projects developed by our junior colleagues achieving presentation and publication.
Teamwork is one of our Trust core values, and we ensure that all our medics have the opportunity to work collaboratively with supportive peers and senior colleagues this is your opportunity to cement your training, where we are here to help you bring your best skills every day, with first class patient care at the centre of all we do.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We know the importance of supported learning opportunities and are proud of the encouraging environment that our team cultivates we promise departmental teaching, MDT meetings, grand rounds and journal clubs as well as study leave. We have an excellent record of junior doctors progressing on to formal training programmes. You will have the opportunity to be involved with our active research unit, working in partnership with the University of Portsmouth, and currently have a number of projects developed by our junior colleagues achieving presentation and publication.
Teamwork is one of our Trust core values, and we ensure that all our medics have the opportunity to work collaboratively with supportive peers and senior colleagues this is your opportunity to cement your training, where we are here to help you bring your best skills every day, with first class patient care at the centre of all we do.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
- Primary medical qualification recognised by the GMC
- Full MRCP
- Advanced Life Support Certificate from the Resuscitation Council UK or equivalent by the intended start date.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of completion of Internal medicine training or equivalent 3 year training programme
- Demonstrable skills and experience of Acute Medicine or General Medicine
- Experience as a Medical Specialty Trainee 3+ or equivalent
- Previous experience working as a doctor in the NHS, preferably at registrar level
Additional criteria
Essential
- Demonstrate evidence of being able to:
- Manage/prioritise time
- Manage information effectively
- Prioritise clinical need
- Organise ward rounds
- Ability to maximise safety and minimise risk
- Monitor developing situations and anticipate issues
- Evidence of involvement in an audit project, a quality improvement project, formal research project or other activity
- Understanding of clinical risk management
- Able to demonstrate appropriate level of clinical knowledge
- Knowledge and use of evidence based practice
- IT skills
- Effective, confident presentation ability
- Experience in and outside speciality
Desirable
- Evidence of completed audit
- Evidence of teaching experience
- Leadership skills ability to take responsibility, make decisions and exert appropriate authority
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Publications
- Prizes and honours
- Logical thinking, problem solving and decision making
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
- Primary medical qualification recognised by the GMC
- Full MRCP
- Advanced Life Support Certificate from the Resuscitation Council UK or equivalent by the intended start date.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of completion of Internal medicine training or equivalent 3 year training programme
- Demonstrable skills and experience of Acute Medicine or General Medicine
- Experience as a Medical Specialty Trainee 3+ or equivalent
- Previous experience working as a doctor in the NHS, preferably at registrar level
Additional criteria
Essential
- Demonstrate evidence of being able to:
- Manage/prioritise time
- Manage information effectively
- Prioritise clinical need
- Organise ward rounds
- Ability to maximise safety and minimise risk
- Monitor developing situations and anticipate issues
- Evidence of involvement in an audit project, a quality improvement project, formal research project or other activity
- Understanding of clinical risk management
- Able to demonstrate appropriate level of clinical knowledge
- Knowledge and use of evidence based practice
- IT skills
- Effective, confident presentation ability
- Experience in and outside speciality
Desirable
- Evidence of completed audit
- Evidence of teaching experience
- Leadership skills ability to take responsibility, make decisions and exert appropriate authority
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Publications
- Prizes and honours
- Logical thinking, problem solving and decision making
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
