Job summary
- Main area
- Acute Medicine
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Registrar
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (12 months FTC)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 213-PRUH-6950683
- Employer
- King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Princess Royal University Hospital
- Town
- Orpington
- Salary
- £61,825 - £70,425 per annum plus rota enhancements and outer London weighting
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Fellow
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Registrar
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.7 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.
Job overview
The post-holder will be expected to attend morning board rounds, ward rounds and multidisciplinary meetings run from their base ward. He/she will be expected to help organize and support the junior staff in the day-to-day running of the ward, ensure discharge summaries are appropriately completed by junior staff, and help coordinate discharge planning. There are occasionally medical outliers on other wards that will need to be managed by the ward teams and shared care of patients on critical care. When present on the ward the post holder will provide support to the whole ward as required for seriously ill patients and emergencies.
Each day starts with all patients review with Consultant prioritising sick patient and early discharges followed by Morning board round with Nursing and allied teams.
Main duties of the job
The management of inpatient stay is one of the trust’s key performance areas. As well as managing attendances in collaboration with acute medicine and Emergency Care, we are also closely associated with innovative and collaborative Intermediate Care schemes such as the Home based rehabilitation team and Bed Based rehabilitation team. A team of Discharge coordinators, responsible for the management of complex discharges across the Hospital, also works from within the PRUH.
The team is also closely associated with the Medical School and regards the inter- relationship between clinical services and research and development as a key component in delivering high quality patient-centred services.
Working for our organisation
He/she will also be expected to help deliver teaching and training to more junior colleagues including MRCP PACES teaching. He/she will be expected to deliver teaching and training to year 5 and year 4 medical students attached to the ward. The post holder is expected to participate in the departmental teaching programme activities like journal club and regular medical teaching for all junior doctor and trainees.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
All employees are expected to undertake work on any of the Trusts sites as required by the service. As an employee of the Trust you will work in close co-operation with, and support other clinical, medical professional and managerial colleagues in providing high quality healthcare to the Trust’s patients. Integral to these responsibilities is the following: -
· The provision of a first class clinical service.
· Effective leadership to all staff engaged in the specialty.
· Sustaining and developing teaching and research in conjunction with King’s College London / KHP.
· Undertaking all work in accordance with the Trust’s procedures and operating policies.
· Conducting clinical practice in accordance with contractual requirements and within the parameters of the Trust’s service plans.
· Maintaining the confidence of business plans and development strategies formulated for the specialty, the Care Group or the Trust.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GMC
- MRCP Part 1
- Capability to work at SpR level within General Medicine
Desirable criteria
- MRCP Part 2 and PACES
Audit
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of Audit/ quality improvement
Teaching and training
Essential criteria
- Interest in teaching undergraduates and postgraduates
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of formal training in teaching
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Medical Staffing Department
- Job title
- Medical Staffing
- Telephone number
- 01689 865 689
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