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Locally Employed Doctors (CT1/2 or ST1/2 level equivalent) – Acute Medicine

Duties will include a combination of assessment, investigation and management of the acutely unwell medical patient, from admission to discharge (or placement on a specialty ward).  Duties will also include assessment and care for patients referred to Medicine on our Acute Medical Unit (AMU) and in the Emergency Department. When working on our short stay ward, EAU4, you will present at the daily multidisciplinary board round to assist in patient management and discharge planning.  All team members are expected to take an active part in liaison with patients, their carers and relatives and their healthcare workers in the community.  Every team member has a responsibility to provide accurate discharge information to GPs and community hospitals.

You will be expected to abide by the code set out in the GMC “Good Medical Practice” and to continue to improve on the generic competencies outlined in the Foundation Programme.

Responsibilities include:

• Taking a complete medical history in a holistic way, with a focus on the patient’s agenda
• Performing a complete systems examination while maintaining the dignity of the patient
• Requesting and interpreting appropriate investigations including radiological tests, biochemistry and haematology tests and basic microbiological tests
• Working as part of a multidisciplinary team in patient management, with a focus on effective communication
• Learning to prioritise tasks to enable safe and high quality patient care
• Supervising, training and assisting junior clinical staff when required
• Participating in ward rounds and multi-disciplinary rounds as timetabled
• Referring on to specialty inpatient teams by telephone or electronic referral system
• Completing discharge summaries
• Attending weekly educational and multidisciplinary sessions
• Supervising medical students
• Complying with all local policies including dress code, annual and study leave

All post will have on-call commitments at CT level.

Posts can be either 100% clinical, or 80% clinical and 20% non-clinical, with non-clinical time being used for trust-approved work in quality improvement, medical education or leadership and management. We will also support our successful candidates in their development by offering funding for a postgraduate certificate in an appropriate subject.

When we formed our integrated care organisation in October 2015 we became the first Trust in England to join-up hospital and community care with social care. As one organisation, we are working with our partners to improve the way we deliver safe, high-quality health and social care. Learn more about our vision of health and care.

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated organisation providing acute health care services from Torbay Hospital, community health services and adult social care.

The Trust runs Torbay Hospital as well as five community hospitals, stretching from Dawlish to Brixham. We also provide health and social care to the local population.

We have around 500,000 face-to-face contacts with patients in their homes and communities each year and see over 78,000 people in our A&E department annually. We serve a resident population of approximately 286,000 people, plus about 100,000 visitors at any one time during the summer holiday season.

Our purpose is to provide safe, high-quality care and social care at the right time and in the right place to support the people of Torbay and South Devon to live their lives to the full.