Senior Clinical Fellow Diabetes & Acute Medicine

Planning a career in Diabetes, Acute Medicine or General Medicine?

Are you looking for more clinical experience before higher speciality training (HST)?

Are you planning to apply for HST ST4 applications via the ‘alternative certificate’?

Keen to gain more experience in Diabetes and Endocrinology, as well as Acute Medicine, with a friendly team that is interested in your development as a doctor before deciding on your next career move?

Would you like to spend at least one day per week dedicated to training opportunities such as specialist clinics and Quality Improvement Projects?

Based at Queens Hospital, Burton on Trent, we are appointing a Senior Clinical Fellow (ST4 level equivalent or above) within our Diabetes and Acute Medicine teams. This will be a full-time, fixed-term service appointment to commence 10th December 2024 for 8 months. Applications for less than full-time working patterns are welcome.

The post can be tailored to individual requirements but centres upon the provision of care to the Diabetes/Acute Medicine teams. There is scope to access opportunities that enable you to fulfil the ‘alternative certificate’ required for HST.

The post holder will initially work in Diabetes until February 2025. After this, the remainder of the contract will be spend in Acute Medicine.

Department of Diabetes

• Provision of middle grade services to the Department of Diabetes and General Medicine across the wards
• To provide daily care and management of patients on respective wards
• Participation in out-patient clinics
• Administrative tasks for these services
• Leadership to junior staff
• Shared role in delivery of teaching and training
• Active participation in quality improvement, audit and research activities of these services
• Keeping up to date and participating in continuing professional development
• Participation in annual appraisals
  
  

Acute Medicine Department

• Provision of junior support to the Acute Medicine / Medical services.
• To provide daily care and management of Acute medical patients in Acute Medical Unit (AAC) and Short Stay Unit (SSU) and on call.
• Shared role in delivery of teaching & training to junior doctors & non-medical staff.
• Administrative tasks for these services
• Keeping up to date & participating in CME & CPD
• Participation in annual appraisals & job planning.
• To work flexibly across all areas within the AMBU where clinical need dictates i.e. ACC, MAU, Triage, ED In-Reach and SSU Wards.
  
  

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In Return We Will Offer

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
  
  

Key Facts

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Haleema Hayat Job title: Consultant Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01283 566333

Acute Medicine contact: Dr Muhammad Memon, Associate Clinical Director [email protected] 01283 511511