Job summary
- Main area
- Trauma Rehabilitation
- Grade
- ST1-2
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-TD-25-177
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- MSU Trauma - RVI
- Town
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Salary
- £49,909 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Fellowship in Major Trauma Rehabilitation
ST1-2
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
The post is appropriate for doctors with an interest in a medical, surgical (trauma and orthopaedics) or general practice career due to the range of patient presentations and problems seen on the trauma rehabilitation unit. The candidate will be responsible for the day to day care of patients in the unit.
Main duties of the job
· Attend the ward daily and review all patients (with the RM consultant when available and also with support from acute clinical teams), aiming to providing continuity and to support therapy staff.
· Review patients’ background medical information with regard to chronic condition management during rehabilitation and prevent secondary complications.
· Attend and provide medical input to the MTRU MDT meetings.
· Liaise and collaborate with parent team junior doctors to update on changes to patient status including ordering (and taking if necessary) of bloods, XRs, other tests, prescriptions and discharge arrangements as appropriate.
· Follow/chase up results and action issues generated with senior support and guidance.
· Attend ward rounds/ad hoc patient reviews with parent teams, including daily trauma (A and E) round for MTRU patients.
· Clerk in and be familiar with presentation, progress and plans for all new admissions to MTRU.
· Be first point of contact for emergencies on the unit and queries from nursing and therapy staff
· Working with the major trauma coordinators, major trauma rehabilitation leads and Consultants in Rehabilitation Medicine to contribute to the rehabilitation assessment and rehabilitation prescription process for major trauma patients.
· Liaise with and support patient’s families and carers.
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Working for our organisation
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide ward-based medical care with Consultant supervision for patients of the Major Trauma Rehabilitation Service (MTRS), focusing on the Major Trauma Rehabilitation Unit (MTRU).
MTRU is a 10 bedded inpatient unit which opened in November 2017 to provide multidisciplinary specialist rehabilitation to patients after major trauma. It is one part of the RVI MTRS, which is designed to provide very early (from critical care onwards) rehabilitation assessment and also post-discharge specialist rehabilitation care for patients who have accessed the inpatient service.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered medical degree.
- Registration with the GMC
Desirable criteria
- Full or partial higher qualification
- MRCP, MRCGP, MRCS, MRCPsych or other equivalent may be acceptable.
Clinical Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good history & examination skills relevant to Rehabilitation Medicine.
- Able to formulate a working diagnosis.
- Able to order appropriate investigations.
- Image interpretation relevant to practice.
- Demonstrates understanding of working in trauma in a rehabilitation capacity.
- Knows when to appropriately seek assistance from a senior colleague.
- Experience at an equivalent level to successful completion of F2 competencies.
- Experience of working in inpatient specialist rehabilitation.
Desirable criteria
- Clinical experience of rehabilitation medicine.
- Clinical experience in related specialty with rehabilitation element e.g elderly care medicine, stroke medicine, neurology.
- Experience of working in trauma in a rehabilitation capacity.
Maintaining Clinical Competence
Essential criteria
- Written evidence of satisfactory training to date e.g. workplace assessments.
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of teaching undergraduate medical students & Foundation Doctors.
Desirable criteria
- Training the trainers course
Clinical Governance, Audit and Research
Essential criteria
- Experience of audit projects.
Desirable criteria
- Completion of full audit cycle with outcome
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Victoria Cowan
- Job title
- HR Advisor
- Email address
- [email protected]
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