Senior Clinical Fellow in Medicine (IMT3 equivalent)

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Stevenage is seeking a physician to manage emergency patients, lead a cardiac arrest team, and supervise training doctors. The ideal candidate has experience in general medicine and holds a current license from the General Medical Council. This role offers opportunities for flexible working and participation in educational activities.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Opportunities for educational activities

Qualifications

• Good range of experience in general (internal) medicine.
• Able to show situational awareness and application of good decision making.
• Experience in supervising undergraduates, doctors in training, and other colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Initial resuscitation and management of emergency patients.
• Supervision and support to training resident doctors.
• Daily ward rounds for inpatient and outpatient management.

Skills

Engagement with clinical governance

Situational awareness

Patient safety leadership

Supervising undergraduates

Education

Current licence to practice from the General Medical Council

Job description

o Initial resuscitation and management of all emergency patients presenting to the department

o Initiation of the necessary investigation of patients and the referral to the relevant on-call specialist team when indicated

o Supervision and support to foundation and core training resident doctors

o Management and leadership of the acute medical take and hospital cardiac arrest team.

Main duties of the job

o Daily ward rounds, inpatient and outpatient management of patients, outpatients and endoscopyo To provide general medical care within the department in close co-operation with colleagues and other specialtieso To attend clinics and endoscopy lists for training and serviceo To participate in the department's teaching, audit, and educational activities

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job description

Job responsibilities

In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.

Person Specification

Previous Experience

Essential

• Good range of experience in general (internal) medicine

Desirable

• Experience at StR/ST3 and above or equivalent
• NHS experience

Qualifications

Essential

• Hold a current licence to practice from the General Medical Council

Desirable

• College Membership (MRCP) or qualification of an equivalent level

Skills

Essential

• Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors
• Able to show situational awareness and application of good decision making
• Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
• Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues

Desirable

• Ability to teach clinical skills
• Experience in organising educational activities.

Knowledge

Essential

• Experience of audit

Other

Essential

• Up to date and fit to practice safely and aware of own training needs
• Evidence of engagement with appraisal and revalidation
• Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
• Role model our Trust values every day

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