Innovative Clinical Fellow - Emergency Department

at  Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Company Description
Emergency Medicine is at the heart of the hospital’s emergency care pathway and has recently been award £58 million from the Department of Health to develop and innovate the delivery of Unscheduled Care across the Trust. The department is led by a highly motivated group of Consultants who provide high quality care, support junior doctors as well as driving change as well as being largely present on the shop floor. In addition there is an excellent co-located Paediatric Emergency Department that has also has Consultant delivered care until midnight.

The department has a strong education ethos with many of our trainees returning as Consultant colleagues. The opportunities include:

• Clinical Educators – we have a dedicated team of Consultants that provide 4 hours of shop floor education, 5 days a week. These Consultants are in addition to the Consultants providing shop floor care and the sole purpose is to provide training and learning for junior doctors. They complete SLE’s as well as support trainees requiring competency sign off in specialists areas , e.g. sedation or ultrasound
• 1.5 hours of protected teaching a week
• Regular simulation sessions, including virtual reality
• Daily 1 o’clock teaching vignettes
• 2 Hours EDT on top of 20% fellowship time to support self-development

Whilst this is not a formal training post, the successful candidate would have the opportunity to access the same departmental training opportunities as those on a postgraduate training programme.
Job Description
Job Summary:

There are 2 options for this role:

• 100% of you time in Emergency Medicine with a flexible contract (e.g. term time working)
• 80% of your working time in Emergency Medicine and 20% in your area of specialist interest. We can support the following areas of specialist interest:
• Medical Education
• Simulation
• Medical management and leadership
• Medical Law
• Quality Improvement
• Research
• IT/digital Intensive Care Medicine
• Paediatric Emergency Medicine
• Public Health Medicine
• Plastic Surgery
• Toxicology

EXPERIENCE

Evidence of completion of 2 year training programme
Demonstrable skills and experience in Emergency Medicine

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

Ability to maximise safety and minimise risk.
Monitor developing situations and anticipate issues.
Ability take clear and concise case histories and conduct a good clinical examination
Ability to cannulate and catheterise patients.
Able to demonstrate appropriate level of clinical knowledge
Knowledge and use of evidence based practice
Good understanding of working with patients with multiple medical co-morbidities.
Additional Information
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs

There are 2 options for this role:

• 100% of you time in Emergency Medicine with a flexible contract (e.g. term time working)
• 80% of your working time in Emergency Medicine and 20% in your area of specialist interest. We can support the following areas of specialist interest:
• Medical Education
• Simulation
• Medical management and leadership
• Medical Law
• Quality Improvement
• Research
• IT/digital Intensive Care Medicine
• Paediatric Emergency Medicine
• Public Health Medicine
• Plastic Surgery
• Toxicolog

The successful candidate duties will include:

• Delivery of shop floor care to patients arriving in the Emergency Department.
• Participate in a 24/7 rota including weekend work and night shifts.
• Ensure discharge summaries are completed in a timely manner and communicate with GPs and other clinical colleagues as required.
• Maintain continued professional development.
• Attend educational and multidisciplinary sessions.
• Completion of essential/mandatory training
• Comply with all local policies including, dress code, annual and study leave