Trust Registrar in Acute MedicineNHS
Job summary
Are looking for your next step within Acute Medicine?
This Acute Medicine position is to support the increased expansion and development of our Same Day Emergency Care Unit (SDEC) and Acute Medical Units (AMU - McGill) at Royal Hampshire County Hospital (RHCH).
We envisage that the successful candidate will be working in Acute Medical Unit, thereby providing a wide breadth of acute medicine experience in these consultant led area.
This post provides an excellent opportunity to strengthen your clinical acumen, diagnostic and practical skills in acute medicine, with real time consultant feedback and supervision. This post also provides an opportunity for candidates to further develop their teaching experience by providing a dedicated time to help run AMU teaching, simulating training, mock paces, Regular paces exams, medical student programmed teaching including virtual on call training. Consideration for Portfolio Pathway (CESR Programme) will be given.
Main duties of the job
This post provides an excellent opportunity to strengthen your clinical acumen, diagnostic and practical skills in acute medicine, with real time consultant feedback and supervision.
This is also an opportunity for candidates to further develop their teaching experience by providing a dedicated time to help run AMU teaching, simulating training, mock paces, Regular paces exams, medical student programmed teaching including virtual on call training.
Job description
Patient assessment
Clerk and post take administration; writing in patients notes
Undertake patient reviews
Promptly update patients systems.
Attend clinics (Acute Medicine)
Attend Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings
Facilitate daily board round with MDT
Triage to medical teams /acute physicians as appropriate
Participates in ward rounds
Liaising with patient families to discuss patients progress, goals and achievable outcomes
Liaising with patients respecting their right to reach decisions about their treatment, care and wishes for discharge destination.
About us
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT) provides hospital services to around 570,000 people living in Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire, and specialist services to patients from all over the country. We deliver a full range of district hospital services in a variety of locations.
Our department has a strong sense of teamwork, pride and provides opportunities for professional development. The acute medicine Consultants are fully committed to a programme of teaching, and appointees are supervised similarly to formal trainees in terms of clinical and pastoral support as well as portfolio guidance. Successful candidates are actively encouraged to partake in regular quality improvement projects, weekly AMU teaching, medical grand round, mortality and morbidity meeting and the completion of MRCP exam.