About the Role

The Medical Unit, like most other Units in the Trust, works as a single unit and includes general medicine, acute elderly medicine and associated specialities such as haematology, neurology, rheumatology, dermatology, oncology, etc. With the addition of a Medical Investigations Day Unit at Wexham Park Hospital and an extra medical ward on each site, we have established a system of consultant-based wards.

The geographical lay-out of the district and the number of hospital sites require most Consultants to hold out-patient clinics in one or more of the Community Hospitals in addition to the acute sites.

There is a new Postgraduate Centre at Wexham Park Hospital, which offers excellent facilities including lecture theatre, seminar rooms and the John Jamieson Library. This has a full librarian service and on-line research facilities.

Responsibilities

• The appointee is responsible to the consultants for the execution of his/her professional duties and for the supervision of the junior staff in the departments.
• He/she will be responsible for the routine and emergency admission of patients.
• He/she will carry out daily ward rounds to assess progress of patients and ensure that all treatments ordered are carried out and attend rounds with consultants.
• He/she is to ensure that adequate patient notes are kept, and correspondence is always undertaken punctual.
• In carrying out his/her duties, the appointee will always be responsible for keeping the consultants informed of serious cases on the ward, cases of death and any other matter which it is deemed necessary that their attention should be drawn to. Any cases in which he/she has doubts must be referred to the consultant.
• During his/her appointment, the appointee will always be expected to carry out such duties as assigned to him/her by the consultant staff of the department and perform duties in occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstances.
• He/she should report to his/her consultant any deviation from good health he/she may observe in any member of the junior medical staff.