Specialist Clinical Fellow ST3 - ST5

Job Overview

The Older Peoples Medicine, Frailty and Palliative directorate, like most other Units in the Trust, works as a single unit and includes elderly medicine, acute frailty, palliative care and community services (Frimley site). The post holder will be required to work within the Older Peoples Medicine department, providing care to inpatients across our 5 wards during the course of their employment. Our core Older Peoples Medicine Unit comprises wards 7, 8 and the Acute Frailty Unit with a bed base of 78. We have 2 additional wards, ward 17 and ward 20, giving an additional 28 and 24 beds respectively.

Main duties of the job

Each ward has a dedicated consultant(s). We offer one face to face general Care of the Elderly clinic each week, with additional ward follow up telephone clinics. The majority of subspecialty clinics such as falls and movement disorders are provided in the community by Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main 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.
• Daily Consultant led board rounds.
• He/she will be responsible for the routine day to day care of inpatients on the Older Peoples Medicine wards.
• He/she will arrange to be on duty for emergencies in accordance with the appropriate rota.
• 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 undertaken punctually at all times.
• He/she will make him/herself available to confer with patient's relatives, if required.
• In carrying out his/her duties, the appointee will at all times 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 at all times 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.
• It is the responsibility of the appointee to carry out tuition and training and supervision of the F1s (House officers) within the department and give occasional lectures to nursing staff as required.
• 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.
  
  

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• MBBS or equivalent
• Full MRCP (PACES) or equivalent
• Full GMC at time of application.
• Valid ALS certificate
• Two year of equivalent IMT level training in Acute and General Medicine Specialties with experience of Acute medical take on calls. (IMT3 +)
• At least two years post-registration
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Additional relevant Higher Degree (Masters or Doctorate)
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of acute medical take
• Minimum of four years post MBBS of clinical experience
• NHS experience of at least 1 year
• Suitable for SPR (IMT3 + Level) working pattern
  
  

Desirable criteria

• N/A
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• An advanced and developing clinical capability in General Medicine care
• Ability to manage Acute and General Medical emergencies with experience in providing medical care for Adults.
• An appropriate knowledge base, and ability to apply sound clinical judgement to problems
• Ability to prioritise clinical need
• Ability to maximise safety and minimise risk
• Ability to work without supervision where appropriate
• Good interpersonal skills are required to deal with patients and colleagues.
• Evidence of effective team working and leadership, supported by multi-source feedback or workplace-based assessments
• Self-awareness, with knowledge of personal strengths and weaknesses, impact and areas for development
• Interest in and knowledge of the importance of leadership and management for clinicians
• Good organisation essential. Ability to apply theories of medicine to clinical practice. To know when to seek help
• Essential for dealing with direct patient care and working with colleagues. Must be able to speak fluent English
• Understanding of Research, including awareness of ethical issues
• Understanding of Research methodology and ability to use basic qualitative and quantitative methods
• Knowledge of evidence-based practice
• An ability to work innovatively and assertively to deputise for Consultants to get the Registrar job done.
• Clarity in written / spoken communication
• Capacity to adapt language to the situation, as appropriate
• Active listening and empathy
• Ability to build rapport and communicate effectively with others
• Ability to persuade, influence and negotiate
• Ability to communicate effectively under pressure
• Capacity to use logical / lateral thinking to solve problems / make decisions, indicating an analytical / scientific approach and, where appropriate, creativity in problem solving
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of involvement in local or national management systems
• Evidence of effective leadership (e.g. evidence of leading innovations or improvements)
• Understanding of the local and national context of the NHS, including economic and political influences
• Evidence of relevant academic achievements, including publications / presentations
• Leadership skills gained within the NHS or elsewhere
• Evidence of altruistic behaviour, e.g. voluntary work
• Clinical and/or non-clinical topics
• Peer-reviewed publications and/or other communication (e.g. blog, letters to journals)
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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