Job overview

LAS FY2

As this is to cover a trainee post this will give you the opportunity to rotate within different specialties within the IHC which can include, General Surgery, Anaesthetics, Paediatrics, Stroke, Care of the Elderly, Renal, Respiratory, Cardiology etc  

The rotation happens every 4 months

August

December

April

Main duties of the job

The candidate will be responsible, both professionally and managerially, to Dr H Nair clinical Director for medicine. You will also be supervised by a team of consultants 08.00 hrs till 21.30 hrs on site 21:30-08:00 off site.

 He/she will:

• The job will be providing cover to the medical patients in the ward from 08.00 hrs until 17.00 hrs on a day-to-day basis and is not part of the on call rota.
• Provide in reach to Emergency Department patients that require review post ward rounds.
• Advising and liaising with GPs, preventing admission and utilising alternative appropriate pathways.
• Cover within SDEC to review of GP admission patients (as per the national SDEC model patient management)
• Cover within SDEC to review patients within ward and re-attenders / redirected from ED
• Implement Hot-Clinics for rapid review of appropriate patients
• Support with medical patients within SAU (EQ)

·        Provide leadership and education to the junior doctors on the team.

• Participate in Clinical Audit and CPD, which is fully supported by the Health Board.

Working for our organisation

Glan Clwyd Hospital opened in 1980 and is a modern District General Hospital providing a comprehensive range of services to the population of North Wales, between Llandudno and Flint and the adjacent inland rural communities.  It serves a population of approximately 220,000 with a considerable influx of holidaymakers in the summer months.  There are 513 acute hospital beds on the Glan Clwyd site.  An Acute Psychiatric Unit (Ablett Unit) is located on the Glan Clwyd site, as is the North Wales Cancer Treatment Centre, which provides care for the North Wales population.

The Division of Emergency and Integrated Medicine includes eight medical wards, including an 8-bedded Cardiac Care Unit, a 28 bedded Acute Medicine Unit and three Care of the Elderly wards. There is also a busy Emergency Department, a Gastroenterology Unit and a Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory within the Division. The Renal and Diabetes Centre attached to the site was opened in September 2004.

There are excellent pathology facilities within the hospital, including a Public Health Laboratory.  The Radiology Department offers a full range of facilities, including a new CT and MRI Unit.  Postgraduate facilities are excellent, with a dedicated centre and a large, state-of-the-art, award-winning Library within the hospital complex.  There are six community hospitals within the hospital’s main catchment area and peripheral out-patient clinics are held in most of these.