Job summary
- Main area
- Medicine
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Medicine Registrar (ST3-5)
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (end date: 5th August 2025 or Sept 2nd 2025)
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week (Plus On Call Extras)
- Job ref
- 179-7062441-MSJ
- Employer
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Bury St. Edmunds
- Salary
- £61,825 Pro Rata Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
FT Clinical Fellow ST3+ Level in General Medicine
NHS Medical & Dental: Medicine Registrar (ST3-5)
Job overview
Applications are invited for Fixed Term Clinical Fellow ST3+ÌýLevel in General Medicine (Rotations). These posts are available for a fixed term of 6 months.
The role involves working collaboratively as part of a team to provide optimal medical care to patients. Responsibilities include supervising and teaching junior staff on the ward, maintaining effective communication with relatives and carers, and collaborating closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure coordinated and comprehensive patient care.
Please see full Job Description attached for full details.
Closing date: This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.
We seek a candidate who can join the trust immediately.
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Main duties of the job
Main duties of the Job
• General ward work and on-going care of in-patients.
• Support and supervise foundation year trainees.
• Maintenance of ward lists.
• Handover of patients to on call and hospital at night teams.
• Consultant ward rounds.
• Attendance at MDTs and board rounds.
• Attend outpatients.
• On call as per rota including night shifts.
• Participate in ward and medical directorate clinical governance.
• Issue death certificate and provide statement for coroner’s referral or evidence.
Please see full Job Description attached for full details.
Working for our organisation
#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
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Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The department of Medicine is run on an integrated acute medicine and care of the elderly ward-based system, with most wards having at least three consultants, two Specialty Registrars, three Specialty Registrars/F2 trainees and three F1 trainees. F1 trainees are regularly rostered to clerking shifts on AAU under the supervision of the physician of the day. In the evenings and at weekends medical wards are covered by two F1 trainees, with support from the rest of the on-call team. At night the hospital is covered by a hospital at night team run by the specialist registrar and including F2 trainees and enhanced trained nurses. F1 trainees no longer work at night within the hospital. Formal handover to the hospital at night-time is an important component of the post for the on call F1 trainees.
Each ward has their own ward-based team of juniors including combinations of FY1, FY2, ST1 and ST2 trainees. Each ward also has ward based StR(s) and a combination of medical and COE consultants. The division runs a ‘physician of the day’ system, to cover the acute on call and provide a daily post take ward round of those admissions not retained in AAU or the short stay facilities.
Each ward operates a daily consultant multidisciplinary red to green board round to facilitate early discharge and to ensure all patients have daily consultant input.
Our Acute Admissions Unit (AAU) is in operation and comprises of short stay trolleys and a dedicated Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) area.
Please see full Job Description attached for full details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
- MRCP
Career progression
Essential criteria
- Evidence that career progression is consistent with personal circumstances.
- Evidence that present achievement and performance is commensurate with totality of period of training.
- At least 24 months’ experience in medicine or an ACCS programme or equivalent (not including Foundation modules) by the time of commencement of ST3 training.
Eligibility
Essential criteria
- Hold full registration and licence to practise with the GMC.
- Previously worked in the NHS for a minimum of 6 months or an NHS clinical attachment.
- Evidence of achievement of Foundation competences from a UKFPO affiliated Foundation Programme or equivalent by time of appointment in line with GMC standards/ Good Medical Practice including: • good clinical care • maintaining good medical practice • good relationships and communication with patients • good working relationships with colleagues • good teaching and training • professional behaviour and probity • delivery of good acute clinical care
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of completion of CT/ST1 or equivalent competences in medicine at time of application, and CT/ST2 competences in medicine by time of appointment, supported by evidence from work-based assessments of clinical performance and Multisource Feedback (DOPS, Mini-CEX, CBD, ACAT) or equivalent.
- Previous clinical experience in Elderly Medicine
Fitness to practise
Essential criteria
- Is up to date and fit to practise safely.
Language skills
Essential criteria
- All applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English that are adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues which could be demonstrated by of the following: PLAB 2 If applicants believe that they have adequate communication skills, but do not fit into one of the examples they need to provide evidence.
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
- Competence in the immediate management of medical emergencies
- Appropriate knowledge base, and ability to apply sound clinical judgement to problems.
- Proficiency in a range of medical procedures
- Able to work without direct supervision where appropriate.
- Able to prioritise clinical need.
- Able to maximise safety and minimise risk.
- Attendance at relevant courses, e.g. ALS, ATLS, EPLS, APLS or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Personal attributes: shows aptitude for practical skills, e.g. manual dexterity.
- Experience of managing common presentations of frailty
Academic/ Research skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates understanding of research, including awareness of ethical issues.
- Demonstrates understanding of the basic principles of audit, clinical risk management, evidence-based practice, patient safety, and clinical quality improvement initiatives.
- Demonstrates knowledge of evidence- informed practice
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of relevant academic and research achievements, e.g. degrees, prizes, awards, distinctions, publications, presentations, other achievements.
- Evidence of active participation in audit.
- Evidence of involvement in teaching students, postgraduates and other professionals
- Evidence of participation in a teaching course
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Medical Recruitment
- Job title
- Medical Recruitment
- Email address
- [email protected]
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