Job Description
This post is an ideal post for a candidate with an interest in Emergency Medicine or wishing to broaden their career following their Foundation training. Although it is not a formal training post, the successful candidate will be working alongside trainees in nationally recognized training positions, and receive the same support, supervision and access to teaching as them. In addition, we will provide an additional protected 4 hours per week CPD to pursue an interest of your choice. This is flexible, but may include Ultrasound, Simulation, Teaching, Frailty, Trauma, Anaesthetics or Paediatrics.
This post is an ideal post for a candidate with an interest in Emergency Medicine or wishing to broaden their career following their Foundation training. Although it is not a formal training post, the successful candidate will be working alongside trainees in nationally recognized training positions, and receive the same support, supervision and access to teaching as them. In addition, we will provide an additional protected 4 hours per week CPD to pursue an interest of your choice. This is flexible, but may include Ultrasound, Simulation, Teaching, Frailty, Trauma, Anaesthetics or Paediatrics. In addition, the candidates will be asked at interview if they would like to put themselves forward for the highly sought-after posts of Emergency Medicine with Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine, Clinical Research Fellow in EM and/or Sustainability Fellow in EM.
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.
The successful candidates 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. We also have a team of Emergency Nurse Practitioners who help deliver the minors service across all sites.
The type of work to expect and learning opportunities:
➢Assessment of all cases: GP, Ambulance, self presentations, all age groups, medical and surgical.
➢ Initial diagnosis, investigation and treatment.
➢ Close working with other inpatient teams and specialities.
➢ Very close working with acute medicine with team handover and interaction.
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