Specialty Doctor in Acute Medicine

Job Overview

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS AN INTERNAL ROLE FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE RUH ONLY

The Acute Medicine Department is pleased to offer a substantive Trust SAS Specialty Doctor post to work full time across the specialty. The post holder will have experience and expertise in Acute Medicine and enjoy working as part of an integrated front door multi-disciplinary team to deliver fast paced, evidence based care.

Acute Medicine at the Royal United Hospital centres around a 13 bedded direct GP assessment area (DAA) and a 25-bedded Medical Assessment Unit (MAU), located next to and operating closely with the Emergency Department. In addition to the MAU and SDeC, the acute medicine team are also responsible for patients in the 18-bedded Medical Short Stay ward (MSS). There is day-to-day supervision by the Consultants in Acute Medicine. 15 SHOs/F2s and 1 F1 are assigned to the acute medicine team at any one time; this team manages the acute take from Monday to Friday and also provides ward cover for all medical patients in the hospital overnight with assistance from the ward based medical teams.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as a key part of the medical team in Acute Medicine providing consistent senior medical cover to SDEC, MAU and MSS. They will use their good general medical knowledge and ability to supervise the acute medical take at STR level, working without direct supervision where appropriate and supervising junior medical staff. SDEC shifts may include early or late shifts, and most clinical days will begin with 8am handover. Morning and afternoon ward rounds on MAU and MSS will be standard work as part of the DCC of this role, and the post holder will show leadership, make decisions, organise ward rounds and chair board rounds. The role will have opportunities for service development through audit and quality improvement projects. The post holder will contribute, as part of a team, to core activities such as clinical governance and teaching/training.

The post holder will be part of the weekend rota providing post take ward rounds to MAU and MSS, currently at a frequency of 1:10. This will not be additional hours but managed as part of the weekly rota with week days off.

Working for our organisation

We are proud to be part of BSW Hospitals Group - a formal partnership between the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. With a combined workforce of over 17, 600 colleagues, and budget of 1.6 billion the Group is united by a common purpose to deliver the best possible care to over 1 million people.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about the role.

Person specification

Qualifications/Experience

Essential criteria

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• Experience in an acute speciality at STR level (or equivalent outside UK)

Desirable criteria

• Intention to specialise in Acute Medicine.

Ability

Essential criteria

• Evidence of experience in a range of acute medical specialties
• Able to work without direct supervision where appropriate.

Please note - Due to recent changes in UK immigration and visa rules applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered unless an alternative right to work solution can be provided. Candidates requiring sponsorship (or will need sponsorship at the end of a current visa e.g. those with graduate visa's) should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk website before applying: Prove your right to work to an employer: Overview - GOV.UK

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

• SAS Acute Med Job description & Person Specification (PDF, 398.0KB)
• Join the RUH (PDF, 1.3MB)

Further details / informal visits contact

Name Sarah Gillett Job title Clinical Lead for Acute Medicine Email address Sign in to view email