The main responsibilities of the post are effective and appropriate medical care of inpatients including acute assessment, participation in acute medical and frailty take, monitor and manage in-patients as well as contributing to outpatient and multidisciplinary meetings. The post holder will be part of a large medical and multidisciplinary team working under direct consultant supervision; who are well established RCP trainers.

The post holder will also be required to provide prospective cover for colleagues during their Annual & Study Leave for on-calls and day time cover.

All clinical staff are accountable and responsible for their own clinical competence and should limit their actions to those for which are deemed competent. Clinical staff are also required to comply with the requirements of their professional organisations regarding supervision.

All qualified staff have a responsibility to supervise unqualified/more junior staff and students on a day to day basis to ensure that patients receive appropriate care and that any untoward action is addressed.

Main duties of the job

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsibility for inpatient admission, day to day management, co-ordination of inpatient management under the supervision of the consultant and/or in close liaison with General Practitioners
• Key role in discharge planning and co-ordinating approaches to relatives and other agencies
• Liaison with patients and relatives/carers and members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the patients receive a high quality service and are all kept informed of progress as appropriate
• Responsibility for contemporaneous record keeping, identifying progress and plans in patients' case notes
• Participation in consultant ward rounds and facilitating multidisciplinary meetings
• Complete accurate and timely discharge summaries, progress reports and ensure General
• Practitioners are informed of any impending discharges, changes of medication and death
• Assist consultants in the development of inpatient, outpatient and community based services
• Actively participate in multi-disciplinary audit, clinical effectiveness/health gain initiatives and Clinical Governance, taking a lead in local clinical audit/quality improvement activities and developing research projects, as appropriate.

About us

Full Time

Junior Clinical Fellow in General Medicine/Care of the Elderly/Acute medicine

Duration: Up to 6 months initially with potential to extension up to 24 months

Anticipated Start Date: May 2022

Based at Ystrad Mynach Hospital, Ystrad Fawr Way, Ystrad Mynach, Hengoed, CF82 7GP

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB) is an innovative Health Board packed with ambition and is an excellent place to start your career as well as move it up a gear and to continue developing yourself professionally. The successful candidates will have training access across the medical specialties and to a variety of accredited training courses, under the supervision of RCP trainers. ABUHB will be highly flexible to the needs of individual candidates towards their career progression such as obtaining MRCP(UK) and CESR in line with the service requirements. ABUHB has a very good track record with high MRCP (UK) pass rates and training courses for MRCP PACES examination. There is dedicated fund to support with training which will need to be discussed with your RCP trainer.

Enhanced check with barred list information, including

• - an adults and children's barred list check

Applicants must hold or be eligible to hold full registration and a licence to practice with the GMC.

Free parking is available across all Aneurin Bevan University Health Board Sites.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Dr Jonathan Hewitt, Consultant

Job description
Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description -

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsibility for inpatient admission, day to day management, co-ordination of inpatient management under the supervision of the consultant and/or in close liaison with General Practitioners
• Key role in discharge planning and co-ordinating approaches to relatives and other agencies
• Liaison with patients and relatives/carers and members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the patients receive a high quality service and are all kept informed of progress as appropriate
• Responsibility for contemporaneous record keeping, identifying progress and plans in patients case notes
• Participation in consultant ward rounds and facilitating multidisciplinary meetings
• Complete accurate and timely discharge summaries, progress reports and ensure General
• Practitioners are informed of any impending discharges, changes of medication and death.
• Assist consultants in the development of inpatient, outpatient and community based services
• Actively participate in multi-disciplinary audit, clinical effectiveness/health gain initiatives and Clinical Governance, taking a lead in local clinical audit/quality improvement activities and developing research projects, as appropriate.

Person Specification
English
Essential

• relevant experience
• qualification

Desirable

• experience in geriatric medicine

BMJRef: BMJ-75807/040-CF574