Medical

Description

A large majority of the surgical procedures are undertaken in conjunction with the ENT skull base surgeons and the fellow will therefore, acquire an understanding of the reconstruction paradigm in endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery ranging from free grafts to pedicled nasoseptal flap and other advanced reconstruction techniques. 

The fellow will provide assistance in theatre gradually assuming increasing responsibility under supervision; undertake a daily ward round and liaise with the team regarding management decisions.  They will attend outpatients and the clinical meetings.  

Specific to the skull base/ pituitary service there will be: complex endoscopic endonasal clinic (once/ month); open skull base/ vascular clinic (once/ month); joint pituitary clinic (twice/ month); post-operative sinonasal clinic (twice/ month) and fortnightly skull base/ pituitary MDT. These clinics will highlight our paradigm pertinent to the preoperative work up and postoperative care of the patients.

In addition to above, there is a daily 7.30 a.m. combined clinical and radiology meeting; a weekly general Neuro-oncology tumour MDT, weekly epilepsy and movement disorders MDT, regular journal clubs and an academic teaching program.

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You will be expected to be a fully integrated member of the maternal medicine team, attending MDT meetings and clinics.

The post holder will have the opportunity to attend MDT meetings to plan care for these women, and clinical review of some of these women in clinic.

The post holder will have the opportunity to participate in simulation sessions managing women with medical problems in pregnancy. This is a new initiative based in the simulation centre in NBT and has received excellent feedback.

There will be 50% GIM on calls included in this post. You must be able to fulfil all the duties of the post, including the on-call commitments (general medical on call rota).

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The post holder will provide clinical microbiology services to North Bristol NHS Trust and UHBW (University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust) depending upon the requirement of clinical services, including on-call. 

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The Medicine for Older Person’s team comprises 23 WTE consultants with support from junior medical teams, providing a range of services for older people with complex needs.

The specialty is supported by a secretarial team which comprises of 3 x band 4  and 2 x band 3 . We work in an open plan office which has adequate desk space and IT technology. The appointee will have access to office space and a computer.

The specialty currently manage patients across a number of inpatient services. These include the review of acute admissions in the Emergency Zone on Level 0 of the Brunel Building, a newly created Acute Frailty Unit on level 1 (32 beds), with post-admission short stay capacity. Two complex care wards are located on level 5 (32 beds on each) with a further short stay bed base (c.16 beds). Transitional post- acute care beds are located in the nearby Elgar House wards, which includes 70 beds.

Description

The post holder will be required to work a full shift system whilst at this hospital. Full Registration with the GMC is essential. Experience and familiarity with UK hospital systems and practices or equivalent is essential.

For more information regarding the main duties of this job, please see the full job description and person specification attached.

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• Support a shared model of trauma care for older patients admitted with femoral, pelvic, long bone, spinal, thoracic, abdominal or head trauma.
• Provide proactive comprehensive geriatric assessment of older people sustaining trauma, and/or undergoing surgery.
• Provide urgent clinical assessment and management in sick, high-risk patients.
• Communicate closely with trauma, surgical and anaesthetic colleagues
• Support multidisciplinary working in trauma and surgical MDMs, clinics and wards
• Train health care professionals in trauma and surgery services with emphasis on comorbidity management
• Develop patient pathways and develop trauma and surgical liaison services
• Evaluate service development work (may include patient consent, data handling)
• Take part in research and quality improvement programmes
• Participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care
• Participate in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training across disciplines and specialties

Description

The successful applicant will be based in the ID department at Southmead Hospital but work across ID and microbiology in the region’s different healthcare organisations (including the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Weston General Hospital- both run by University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS FT). Southmead is the regional centre for major trauma, neurosciences, plastics and burns, orthopaedics and renal services. Microbiology services are delivered by Severn Infection Sciences, a collaboration between the trust and UKHSA. The laboratory is based at Southmead and provides diagnostics services for North Bristol, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston Foundation Trust and the Royal United Hospital Trust, Bath.

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The post-holder will join the team of specialist Histopathologists within the department who collectively support the clinical services in Bristol and Weston. The service is delivered from a purpose-built Pathology centre built on the Southmead Hospital site. The department continues to provide an Essential Services Laboratory at the Bristol Royal Infirmary.