Job summary
This is a stand alone FY2 equivalent post which has become available due to an unexpected FY2 rotational vacancy. It is particularly suitable for a doctor seeking to complete their Foundation training and will facilitate the achievements required for a CREST form to enter Core Training in Medicine or those seeking further experience in Acute Medicine. This is a year long post based in Acute Medicine and Ambulatory care and includes nights and medicine on calls. This post will enable you to further develop clinical knowledge across the general internal medicine curriculum and give you the opportunity to practice many procedures and skills.
You will work with a dynamic multidisciplinary team. Your training will mirror that given to doctors in formal training programmes and you will be allocated a Consultant Supervisor to support your career development. You will be encouraged to grow as a clinician and participate in governance including mortality reviews, QIPs, departmental and trust-wide educational activities. Previous clinical fellows have gone on to training across a spectrum of programmes including IMT, GP training and others.
This post may close early once a sufficient number of applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
Detailed job description, person specification and main responsibilities can be found in the attached PDF files.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties of the Posts
1. Acute Medicine
The postholder will work across the following 3 areas as outlined in the work schedule below:
The Acute Assessment Unit (AAU), Mary Seacole North and South wards
The Acute Medical Take
The Ambulatory Emergency Care Unit (AEC) to facilitate same day emergency care (SDEC)
Acute Assessment Unit (AAU)
This is a 34-bed unit based across two adjacent wards (Mary Seacole North and Mary Seacole South). This is staffed on a daily basis by 2 Consultants, a registrar, 2-4 SHOs and 2-3 FY1s with daily Consultant led ward rounds.
Wider AMU staffing includes a dedicated and highly trained nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and MDT team, a frailty team, pharmacy and a full complement of support staff.
There are full cardiac monitoring facilities and isolation facilities, and patients may receive non-invasive ventilatory support on the AAU as well as chest drains, management of level 0 and level 1 patients and a close working relationship with the intensive care, cardiology, respiratory and gastroenterology teams who all in reach to AAU regularly.
Ambulatory Emergency Care (AEC)
The award-winning Ambulatory Emergency Care Unit is staffed by a dedicated team of senior and junior doctors and Advanced Clinical Practitioners who see acutely unwell patients, in an outpatient same day emergency care (SDEC) setting, providing an alternative to admission for many patients.
The ambulatory care unit has a dedicated Consultant and Senior Nurse who supervise the diagnosis, management and treatment of patients on the unit and provide teaching and support for the many procedures (chest drains, ascitic drains, lumbar punctures, infusions and diagnostic imaging) which take place there.
Acute Medical Take
This is staffed by 1 SpR, 2 SHOs and 1 FY1. There is an average intake of 30 patients over 24 hours. During the day, there is a continuous consultant post take ward round providing the opportunity for immediate feedback and learning. Overnight, Consultant advice is available by telephone, and patients are reviewed on the morning post take ward round.
Person Specification
GMC status
Essential
- Full Registration with the GMC with license to practice
Qualifications
Essential
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification Currently valid ALS
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Completed 2 year foundation programme or equivalent
Desirable
- Previous experience in acute medicine
Management Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate a flexible, intelligent, analytical approach to problem solving Possesses good organisational skills
Desirable
- Demonstrates leadership skills
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Possesses good communication skills
- Committed to teaching and training
- Has personal insight into own strengths and weaknesses
- Demonstrates ability to adjust to new environment and demands
- Has ability to work on own initiative
- Works well with colleagues at all levels
- Has ability to contribute to the development of the Trust and it's services
- Has ability to make sound and appropriate decisions
- Delivery of good acute clinical care
- Maintaining good medical practice
- Good relationships and communication with patients and colleagues
- Probity and integrity
Desirable
- Demonstrates awareness of the current UK health care system and the need to develop service in line with current policy
Other
Essential
- Physically able to undertake the duties of the post with reasonable adjustments where required
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 .
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 .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Address
Whittington Hospital
London
N19 5NF