Consultant in Acute Medicine inColchester inColchester PUBLISHED
FRI 25 OCT 2024
In this position, the consultant will supervise junior medical staff, contribute to educational initiatives, and serve as a resource for general practitioners regarding patient admissions. The consultant will also collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to enhance care pathways and maintain effective working relationships across various medical disciplines and service areas, thereby ensuring a high standard of patient care within the community.
Applications are invited for enthusiastic, motivated and committed individuals to join our friendly and dynamic team within the Emergency Assessment Unit at Colchester Hospital. Our unit has been at the forefront in improving the safety and quality of patient care within the Trust, and is looking to massively expand our capacity in providing same day emergency and short stay care.
The Trust is offering 0.5PA on top of a worked 11 PA job plan with the option of more PA's added depending on the candidate's situation, and will be reduced appropriately for someone wishing to work 10PA's. A further specialist interest will also be welcomed, and the sessional allocation considered in a case by case basis.
The job plan is expected to consist of 11.5 Programmed Activities (PAs) and the exact details of job plan will be agreed with the successful candidate after their appointment.
Clinical
The key duties and responsibilities of the post will be:
- Clinical and administrative responsibility for the proper functioning of the Emergency Assessment Unit
- Organising medical admissions through the Emergency Assessment Unit, assigning patients for continuing inpatient care, short stay beds on the Unit or discharging from the EAU directly
- To develop joint protocols for the management of emergency medical admissions with the nursing team and clinical colleagues
- Develop standards, procedures and robust systems on EAU to ensure safe, high quality and efficient patient care from the point of entry onto EAU to admission or discharge from EAU
- Agree and ensure clear processes for handover and specialty triage from EAU
- Supervision of the junior medical staff in the Unit who will have opportunity to
learn on a one to one basis on both formal and informal ward rounds and also on ad hoc basis throughout the day
- An active part in educational programmes for junior medical staff, including formal teaching sessions and clinical audits relevant to the needs of the Assessment Unit
- To teach and train staff in other medical disciplines, nursing and support staff as appropriate
- Issuing of advice to GPs on suitability of patients for admission to hospital
About us
- All consultants in the department have a continuing and individual responsibility for the care of patients in their charge and a general responsibility to provide, in conjunction with their colleagues, an effective Service to meet the needs of the local population, within the resources available
- rk with colleagues to provide a consultant-led service with the highest standard of care
- Work with the multi-professional team to develop care pathways and clinical guidelines
- Develop and maintain good working practices within wards, outpatients and A&E
- Collaborate and promote close working links with colleagues in tertiary centres, community services and primary care
- Offer support and leadership to junior medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary team
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