The appointee will be expected to provide 10 programmed activities per week. This will be split into 8.5 sessions of direct clinical care and 1.5 sessions of supporting professional activity. When the appointee can justify an additional SPA, this will be granted automatically. The on-call surgical team consists of two SpRs, two Core Resident Doctors and two FY1s.
At night there is one SpR, two Core Resident Doctors and two FY1s. The full shift pattern for residents is compliant with EWTD. Patients are initially admitted to a specialised Surgical Assessment Unit (SAU). On this ward, all patients will be under the care of the On-Call Surgeons.
When patients are transferred to the elective surgical wards or to outlying wards, care will be continued to be provided by the admitting surgeon. The consultants are relieved of all other clinical commitments during their period of emergency on-call. Emergency on-call includes but is not limited to: *managing patients on SAU *ensuring that all emergency admissions have a senior review within 12 hours of admission *performing and supervising emergency general surgery *seeing in-hospital referrals for general surgery emergency opinions *being available for general and military trauma as requested. The appointee will not normally be expected to cover vascular or urology emergencies or deal with head injuries.
QEHB does not admit paediatric patients. Teaching As the main teaching hospital for the University of Birmingham, the appointee will be expected to regularly teach students and postgraduates as well as contributing to examinations. They will also be expected to supervise resident doctors. For further information about this role, please see the attached Job Description

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