Job overview
A dynamic and forward thinking Senior Clinical Fellow to join our General Medicine Team.
The Senior Clinical Fellow (SCF) will be involved directly with the day-to-day care of General Medical in-patients allocated to their respective team. This will mainly be patients on a base medical ward and some patients on outlying wards. The SCF will perform tasks identified from ward rounds and support other junior team members in managing and completing those tasks. The SCF will remain accountable to the supervising Consultant.
You should possess previous general medicine experience and have MRCP Part 1.
Main duties of the job
Specific opportunities will include:
· Attendance at Consultant ward rounds
· The opportunity to lead some ward rounds, or see selected patients, and discuss them with a Consultant.
· Clinical supervision of junior doctors
· Receive and also deliver bed-side teaching
· Attend and present/discuss patients at Multidisciplinary team meetings on the ward before ward rounds, or handover patients to nursing teams after rounds.
· Work closely with other speciality colleagues for the support of selected patients via Consultant-Initiated (CI) referrals.
The Senior Clinical Fellow can expect training in a wide range of General Medicine.
The Post holder will be encouraged to participate in the teaching of junior doctors and undergraduate students.
The Post holder will be encouraged to undertake a clinical audit project.
Working for our organisation
Our team is our work family. At Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, you will be working as part of a collaborative, friendly and caring team of incredible people who are committed to providing excellent care with compassion. We celebrate diversity, encourage everyone to contribute, and you are valued for who you are.
Our mission is to provide excellent care with compassion.
As we often have many applicants for jobs at LTHTR, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are short-listed for interview. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume that you have not been short-listed for interview on this occasion.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job description, Person specification and Specialty/ Trust Brochure for further details on:
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Experience
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