Specialty Doctor in Newark Urgent Treatment Centre

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.

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