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Job Overview
The older person’s medicine department includes the Acute Frailty Unit, Ward 7, Ward 8, Ward 17, Ward 18 and Ward 20. Fellows may be expected to work across all of these areas flexibly. The department looks after older people who are often living with frailty, dementia and comorbidity. We provide a holistic, multidisciplinary, patient centred approach to care, based on the principles of comprehensive geriatric assessment.
Main duties of the job
Duties and 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 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.
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
Duties and Responsibilities
- 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
Daily Commitment
- Daily board and ward rounds followed by ward jobs, practical procedures and meeting with relatives.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MB, ChB or equivalent. Valid ALS Certificate
- 1 year in SHO acute General Medicine with experience of acute on call
- At least two years post-registration
Desirable criteria
- Part I MRCP Part II Written or PACES or equivalent
Previous experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of acute medical take and inpatient medicine
- Suitable for SHO level ward work. Able to undertake ward rounds.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Expected attributes are intelligence, good organisation, ability to make balanced decisions and to cope with medical complexity. Good interpersonal skills are required to deal with patients and colleagues.
- Good organisation essential. Ability to apply theories of medicine to clinical practice. To know when to seek help.
- Essential for dealing with patients and other team members
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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