Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Acute Medicine Trust Registrar
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Post open to current North East LET and Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Doctors*
We have an opportunity for an Acute Medicine Trust Registrar, 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.
We expect the post to be banded at 1B.
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.
The type of clinical work and learning opportunities to expect:
- Working on busy AMU and Medical Ambulatory Care unit
Educational opportunities
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- 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
You will work 1 evening per week (excluding annual leave) and 1 weekend in 5. No night shift duty. Your other shifts will be 8-4 or 9-5 and will include some non-clinical time.
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 upon 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.
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For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Dr Jane Atkinson
Job title: Consultant Head of Service in Acute Medicine
Email address: jane.atkinson@nhct.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0191 6072648
Daniel Patterson
Operational Services Manager
via the same number above.
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