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Job summary

Main area
Ambulatory Care
Grade
MT03
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (Intended start date (7th August 2024))
Hours
Full time - 40 hours per week (40 (pro rata if LTFT). Maximum 1 in 4 weekend working)
Job ref
220-EIM-MED-6201833
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Whittington Health
Town
London
Salary
£43,923 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/05/2024 23:59

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Clinical Fellow in Ambulatory Emergency Care/ Acute Assessment Unit

MT03

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We encourage and support  staff to get  COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible. 

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Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a Junior Clinical Fellow (post Foundation) to work within the friendly Acute Medicine department at the Whittington Hospital (including the ambulatory care unit) It is an ideal post for a doctor who is considering a career in Medicine or gaining further experience across the curriculum including procedural skills. You would be supported in working towards exams and your own career goals.

Each post rotates between the ambulatory care unit and the main Acute Medicine unit (which includes the Acute Medicine wards, GIM take and post take shifts) every 3 months. The AMU rota is a full shift rota with nights and on calls and the ambulatory care rota is day shifts only with 1 in 5 weekends (day shifts only).

Your clinical and educational supervisor will remain the same throughout the year (the consultants and MDT work across the departments) and this rotational pattern enables you to focus on different skills and personal development during the various posts.

You will work with a dynamic multidisciplinary team.  Your training will be integrated with that given to doctors in training programs within the department and you will be entitled to study leave and an eportfolio (HORUS). You will be encouraged to grow as a clinician and participate in governance including mortality reviews, QIPs, departmental and trust-wide educational activities.

Main duties of the job

Please see the full Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role. If you are unable to access the PDF, the main duties of the job description can also be found in the 'Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities' section.

 

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.  We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.  The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Duties of the Posts
During your ‘AAU’ post: You will work across the Acute Medical wards, medical take (day/night shifts) and Ambulatory care shifts (full shift 14 week rotation)

  • During your ‘AEC’ post :you will work only in Ambulatory Care (day shifts/1 in 5 weekend day shifts). For the duration of your AEC post, you will have the option to take up a 10% (averaging half day per week) Teaching Fellow role for the Undergraduate Medical Students allocated to the unit.

Acute Assessment Unit (AAU)

This is a 34-bed unit based across two adjacent wards (Mary Seacole North and Mary Seacole South).  This is staffed on a daily basis by 2 Consultants, a registrar, 2-4 SHOs and 2-3 FY1s with daily Consultant led ward rounds.

Wider AMU staffing includes a dedicated and highly trained nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and MDT team, a frailty team, pharmacy and a full complement of support staff.

There are full cardiac monitoring facilities and isolation facilities, with a varied patient mix including a wide range of infectious diseases, patients requiring NIV or HFNO, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, complex diagnostic conundrums and acute oncology patients. As a London based DGH, we admit all patients under the Acute Medicine team and have a close working relationship with the ITU/ CCOT, local medical specialities and tertiary centres to provide excellent patient centred care.

Ambulatory Emergency Care (AEC)

The award-winning Ambulatory Emergency Care Unit is staffed by a dedicated team of senior and junior doctors and Advanced Clinical Practitioners who see acutely unwell patients, in an outpatient same day emergency care (SDEC) setting, providing an alternative to admission for many patients.

The ambulatory care unit has a dedicated Consultant of the day who supervises the diagnosis, management and treatment of patients on the unit and provide teaching and support for the many procedures (chest drains, ascitic drains, lumbar punctures, infusions and diagnostic imaging) which take place there.

Option for Teaching Fellow element

For 2 of the 4 posts (to be determined at interview), you will have the option to take up a 10% Teaching Fellowship which will make up a half day/week (approximately, dependent on the Academic Timetable) during your AEC post (6 out of the 12 months). This will be supervised by the Acute Medicine Undergraduate Lead and the role will primarily be in delivering the teaching timetable for the medical students rotating within the department, including their procedural and case based training.

Acute Medical Take

This is staffed by 1 SpR, 2 SHOs and 1 FY1.  There is an average intake of 30 patients over 24 hours.  During the day, there is a ‘hot’ post-take consultant ward round providing the opportunity for immediate feedback and learning on a 1:1 basis.  Overnight, you will be supervised by a medical registrar on site and GIM consultant by phone. There is a strong and supportive CCOT (critical care outreach team) who are available alongside the ITU team. As a DGH, most tertiary services are via liaison with other London centres such as UCH and Barts and RLH, with whom we have strong links.

Person specification

GMC status

Essential criteria
  • Full Registration with the GMC with license to practice

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • MBBS or equivalent medical qualification Currently valid ALS
Desirable criteria
  • MRCP any part

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Completed 2 year foundation programme or equivalent
  • Minimum of 4 months UK experience in Acute and Emergency Medicine
Desirable criteria
  • Demonstrates leadership skills

Management skills

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrate a flexible, intelligent, analytical approach to problem solving Possesses good organisational skills
Desirable criteria
  • Demonstrates leadership skills

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Possesses good communication skills
  • Committed to teaching and training
  • Has personal insight into own strengths and weaknesses
  • Demonstrates ability to adjust to new environment and demands
  • Has ability to work on own initiative
  • Works well with colleagues at all levels
  • Has ability to contribute to the development of the Trust and it’s services
  • Has ability to make sound and appropriate decisions
  • Maintaining good medical practice
  • Good relationships and communication with patients and colleagues
  • Probity and integrity

Other

Essential criteria
  • Physically able to undertake the duties of the post with reasonable adjustments where required

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Ilana Samson
Job title
Acute Medicine Consultant
Email address
[email protected]

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Magdala Avenue
London
N19 5NF
Telephone
020 7288 3254
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