Job summary
- Main area
- Acute Medicine
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Registrar
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- 40 hours per week (Full time postition on Acute Medicine Registrar rota, working days/long days/weekends and on-call.)
- Job ref
- 193-MS1531UCG
- Employer
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Berkshire Hospital
- Town
- Reading
- Salary
- £43,923 - £63,152 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Specialty registrar/Clinical Fellow/ST3+ in Acute Medicine
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Registrar
Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ‘Good’ with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements. The Trust’s overall rating has also improved to ‘good’. This is a great opportunity to join our clinical or non-clinical teams to create a positive and motivating environment within our trust. Come and join our team in this exciting time of change as we pride ourselves, our staff and our services on excellence.
At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is “Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.”
We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions
We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate
We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live
We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice
Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us. We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.
Job overview
This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate aspiring to a career in Acute Medicine, the AMU medical team seek an enthusiastic individual to join their team. The successful applicants will be part of a broad team consisting of 11 Consultant physicians, specialty trainees in acute medicine and internal medicine, specialty doctors, GP trainees, FY3 doctors, physician associates and advanced nurse practitioners.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work within the Department of Acute Medicine, managing patients and providing cover to the Acute Medical Unit 8am-8pm. The Acute Medicine team is responsible for 4 areas, and the post-holder will be involved in the management of patients in all these areas:
- The Higher Monitoring Unit (HMU) is a 7 bedded unit for the most severely unwell medical patients outside of ICU. It provides a 2:1 nursing ratio, continuous non-invasive cardiovascular and oxygen saturation monitoring and level 2 respiratory support (non-invasive ventilation and high flow nasal oxygen).
- The Acute Medical Unit (AMU) is a 46 bedded unit where acute medicine patients are managed in their first 24 hours of admission, with the aim of diagnosing, treating and discharging patients, or transferring them to a specialty ward.
- Same Day Emergency Care, based on the Short Stay Unit aims to diagnose, treat and discharge patients referred to hospital as an emergency on the same day. It has a dedicated nursing and medical team, with access to rapid diagnostics and prompt specialty input if necessary.
- The Virtual Acute Care Unit is rapidly developing and expanding, being particularly strong in treating infectious disease on a virtual basis. A dedicated team, led by consultants, review and monitor patients remotely on a daily basis, reducing hospital admissions and allowing people to be cared for in their own homes.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Berkshire was rated as an ‘Outstanding’ Hospital by the CQC in January 2018, and was ranked as the number one place to complete foundation training in 2017. We are a very large District General hospital, with a successful track record of delivering high quality acute medical and surgical services to 500,000 patients across West Berkshire.
The Trust is one of the largest general hospital trusts in the country, and is Reading’s biggest employer. The hospital provides all those services normally associated with a very large District General Hospital, with all major specialities represented on a single site, including Accident and Emergency, all major Medical Specialties including a Cardiac Care Unit and renal dialysis, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Intensive Care, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, major Surgical Specialties and Paediatrics.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see job description.
In all our areas there are daily consultant ward rounds. All of our consultants are trained and work in a second specialty including intensive care medicine, geriatric medicine, respiratory medicine, stroke medicine and endocrinology. This provides a huge breadth of knowledge for the management of our patients, and we work closely together as a team, discussing our patients in a daily MDT.
Person specification
Qualifications and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Full GMC Registration. MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
- Clinical Knowledge & Expertise: Appropriate knowledge base and ability to apply sound clinical judgement. Evidence of competence to work without direct supervision where appropriate
- Capacity to manage/prioritise time and information effectively. Capacity to prioritise own workload & organise ward rounds .
Personal Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates clarity in written/spoken communication & capacity to adapt language as appropriate to the situation. Able to build rapport, listen, persuade & negotiate
- Capacity to use logical/lateral thinking to solve problems/make decisions, indicating an analytical/scientific approach.
- Able to work in multi-professional teams & supervise junior medical staff.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Tim McErlane
- Job title
- Consultant in Acute and Intensive Care Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0118 322 5111
- Additional information
Please contact Dr Tim McErlane or Dr Peter Rhead, Clinical Lead for Acute Medicine: [email protected]
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