Applications are invited to join our talented team in the Acute Medicine Department of Hereford County Hospital.

This is a post based between the Acute Medical Unit (AMU), Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) and Virtual Ward (VW). The post holder will be clinically supervised by the Acute Physicians with overall accountability to the Lead for Acute Medicine and Service Unit Director for Urgent Care.

Main duties of the job

Acute Medicine in Hereford is based around the AMU (24-bedded purpose built unit), SDEC (dedicated area with 5 consultation rooms) and VW under the direct supervision of dedicated Acute Physicians.

Hereford County Hospital receives an average of 35 medical admissions per day and around one third of these can potentially be treated as ambulatory patients. This is an exciting time in Medicine in Hereford with big plans for change and improvement.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT and the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Job description
Job responsibilities

An indicative timetable can be found within the attached Job Description.

There will be an expectation that any successful applicants will partake in a full shift on-call rota that currently stands as a 1:9 pattern though this is under review. These are compliant 12.5-hr shifts (9am to 9.30pm, 9pm to 9.30am).

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Full Registration with the GMC with a Licence to Practise
• Shall have completed at least 4 years full time post graduate 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

Desirable

• MRCP (PACES)
• MRCP (part 1 and part 2 written)
• 1 year UK experience

Clinical Care
Essential

• Can manage common medical emergencies
• Evidence of audit or knowledge of audit process
• Current ALS provider certificate
• Evidence of CPD, self-directed learning skills

Desirable

• A research interest or publication(s

Teaching and Training
Essential

• Desire to teach

Desirable

• Educational course/qualification/publication(s)

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