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Specialty Doctor in Newark Urgent Treatment Centre

On-site in Newark·Added today (last checked 9 Nov)

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Salary: £63,696 - £102,689 a year
About £3,960 - £5,800 a month after tax.
Work mode: On-site, Newark
Experience: 4+ years
Closing date: Apply by Wednesday 11 November

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The role

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Specialty Doctor to join an innovative team dedicated to the delivery of high quality care within Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

This post is based at Newark Urgent Treatment Centre, Newark Hospital, but may also undertake programmed activities at King's Mill Hospital if required.

Whilst on duty a doctor has clinical and professional responsibility for their patients. It is also the duty of a doctor to:

Keep patients (and/or their carers if appropriate) informed about their condition.

Involve patients (and/or their carers if appropriate) in decision-making about their treatment.

Maintain professional standards and obligations as set out from time to time by the General Medical Council (GMC) and comply with GMC's guidance on 'Good Medical Practice' as amended or substituted from time to time.

A doctor is responsible for carrying out any work related to and reasonably incidental to the duties set out in the Job Plan such as:

The keeping of records and the provision of reports.

The proper delegation of tasks.

Maintaining skills and knowledge.

Doctors will be expected to be flexible and to cooperate with reasonable requests to cover for their colleagues' absence where they are safe and competent and where it is practicable to do so.

Main duties of the job

The overriding purpose is to support the provision of the highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement.

Under the supervision of the Consultant in Emergency Medicine, provide to the care of patients in the department with responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness or injury.
Referral of patients to appropriate inpatient facilities as appropriate.
Involvement in Emergency Medicine multi-disciplinary teams and meetings.
Outpatient programmed activities depending on the needs of patients.
Teaching and supervision of junior medical staff and nursing staff as appropriate.
Active involvement in audit, clinical governance, and the development of departmental policies.
So far as is consistent with the discharge of the above duties, the post-holder shall undertake to deputise for absent colleagues, when the post-holder deputises outside his/her normal contracted duties and commitment, an equivalent amount of off-duty shall be given.
The post-holder undertakes to be available for such irregular commitments outside normal reserved duties as are essential for the continuity of patient care.
To take responsibility for your own continuing professional education in accordance with guidelines set out by the appropriate college/faculty/professional body.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

We know happy colleagues deliver better care. All our teams work in a supportive environment, which nurtures your wellbeing and provides opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We have an open, inclusive and diverse culture and we would like you to be part of the team.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description/Person Specification for full details of the role, responsibilities, requirements and criteria.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Full registration (with a licence to practice) with the General Medical Council (GMC) MRCEM or equivalent

Desirable

Postgraduate thesis
Completed fellowship programme
An appropriate higher degree

Experience

Essential

Experience requisite to meeting all aspects of the job plan
Ability to maintain clinical credibility and authority with a multi-professional team, including senior trainees
Must have completed at least four years' fulltime postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time or flexible basis), at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty or as a fixed term specialty trainee in a relevant specialty
Must have equivalent experience and competencies

Desirable

Previous experience in a multidisciplinary setting.
Experience within the specialty in the UK.

Management and administrative experience

Essential

Ability to effectively organise and manage clinical workload

Desirable

The potential to develop management and leadership skills

Teaching

Desirable

Experience with audit, teaching or research/critical review of literature

Research

Essential

Ability to convert research evidence into clinical practice

Desirable

Publications in peerreviewed journals

Other

Essential

Ability to communicate effectively with team members, patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies
Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and the requirements of Clinical Governance and Audit Good communication skills, both oral and written, good listening skills, organised with work, clear reasoning and diagnostic skills, confidentiality essential, ability to seek and give advice when necessary, tactful and diplomatic

Desirable

Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national levels

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).