Trust Doctor in Acute Medicine

Job summary

This post is available to employees of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and resident doctors employed by the Lead Employer Trust within North East and North Cumbria.

We have an opportunity for a Trust Doctor in Acute Medicine, based at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH).

This role will balance your clinical time between our busy Acute Medicine inpatient unit (AMU) and our Medical Ambulatory Care (MAC) unit (which delivers same-day emergency care or SDEC). Your training needs will be discussed with a Clinical Supervisor during an initial meeting, to take full advantage of the opportunities highlighted below. Our team of Acute Medicine Consultant Physicians come from a diverse range of clinical backgrounds, including Clinical Infection, Elderly Medicine and Critical Care.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

The type of clinical work and learning opportunities to expect:

Working on busy AMU and Medical Ambulatory Care unit

Educational opportunities

Enhance your skills in taking a targeted medical history

Understand how ambulatory care can contribute to safe admission-avoidance

Gain confidence with communication skills with both patients and their families

Understand team-working and leadership, and the roles of all members of the team

Understand the role of imaging and investigations, and how urgently these investigations may be needed.

Learn to work and lead a multidisciplinary team

Gain confidence with paracentesis, lumbar punctures and other procedures, and training junior trainees in these where appropriate.

Development of diagnostic, management and communication skills

Attend / present interesting or challenging cases at our departmental meetings

Consider Quality Improvement / Clinical Audit opportunities within our department

Working pattern:

To be confirmed at interview, but likely to be full-shift, including day shifts and twilight shifts in SDEC and AMU.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital

Northumbria Way

Cramlington

NE23 6NZ

Employer's website

https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital

Northumbria Way

Cramlington

NE23 6NZ

Employer's website

https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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