Emergency Care Teaching Fellow - Cramlington, United Kingdom - Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Description

Job summary

This post is ideal for a candidate with an interest in Emergency Medicine and Education, wishing to broaden their career following their Foundation training. The time is split equally between providing clinical care in the department and education, predominantly to undergraduates. Although it is not a formal training post, the successful candidate will be working alongside trainees in nationally recognised training positions, and receive the same support, supervision and access to teaching as them. Supervision will be from one of two Honorary Senior Lecturers in Emergency Medicine.

In addition to the above, the post will allow the post holder sufficient independence to develop their own area of interest within medical education and to study towards a recognised teaching qualification.

If the successful appointee has over four years post qualification experience, they will be appointed on Specialty Doctor 2021 Terms and Conditions.

Main duties of the job

Principle activities within the role

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Job responsibilities

Expectations from post holder The post holder will work with a team of twenty-eight Consultant Emergency Physicians and five permanent specialty doctors across Northumbria Healthcare Trust, as well as a large team of doctors in training at all levels.

The post holder will primarily work across in the Emergency Department at NSECH. There will also be opportunities for some shifts in the Blue Zone (seeing walk-in patients) and Resus as well under the supervision of Consultants in Emergency Medicine.

Reception of all cases: GP, Ambulance, self-presentations, all age groups, medical, surgical, paediatric.

Initial diagnosis, investigation and treatment.

The expectation is that the post holder will be able to see patients independently and work above the level of an FY2, and as such previous ED experience is essential.

Close working with other in-patient teams and specialities.

Very close working with acute medicine with team handover and interaction.

Augment their existing clinical, educational and intellectual skills in order to make decisions and problem solve for the benefit of the patient, students and others within the Trust.

Provide evidence-based clinical and educational practice which is robust and makes optimum use of available resources including local expertise and experience.

Develop their current interpersonal and communication skills with regards to effective collaboration and conducive to co-operation within teams.

Develop confidence and competence as a beginning specialist in clinical, educational and scholarly practice.

Convey enthusiasm for their specialty to undergraduate medical students.

Gain experience of teaching across curricula and within rotations.

Develop their academic and scholarship profile in their field of interest.

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable