Locally Employed Doctor - Registrar in Rehabilitation Medicine Portsmouth

Job summary

The Rehabilitation Medicine service provides inpatient specialist rehabilitation from the Lotus Rehabilitation Centre and works closely with acute specialties across Queen Alexandra Hospital and with the wider Wessex Trauma Network, supporting patients through transition from acute care into rehabilitation and onward into community services.

The Lotus Rehabilitation Centre is a modern 26-bed rehabilitation facility, comprising 13 beds for UKROC Rehabilitation Medicine and 13 beds for Stroke Rehabilitation. For UKROC rehabilitation, the unit is classified as level 2a, being the only local unit able to accept complex rehabilitation patients referred from hospitals throughout Hampshire. The unit includes two rehabilitation gyms, patient social space, meeting facilities and access to outdoor rehabilitation and garden areas.

This post offers an opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated doctor to gain experience in specialist Rehabilitation Medicine within the Lotus Rehabilitation Centre at Queen Alexandra Hospital. The post holder will work as part of a comprehensive multidisciplinary team caring for adults with complex neurological, medical and rehabilitation needs, under the supervision of the Consultants in Rehabilitation Medicine.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work closely with medical, nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, psychology, dietetics and other colleagues to support coordinated, goal-focused rehabilitation.

The post is designed to provide broad exposure to the assessment and management of complex disability following neurological injury or illness, major trauma and other disabling conditions. Previous Rehabilitation Medicine experience is desirable but not essential. Applicants with a sound grounding in acute/general medicine, neurology, neurosurgery, trauma, orthopaedics, emergency medicine or related specialties would be well placed to develop within the role.

The successful applicant will be encouraged to participate in continuing professional development such as teaching sessions, quality improvement, audit, and clinical governance. The role will provide experience in the senior medical coordination of a specialist inpatient rehabilitation service, including supporting junior doctors, multidisciplinary working, family communication and escalation of complex clinical issues to the consultant team.

About us

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

Job responsibilities

Job Title: Locally Employed Doctor - Registrar in Rehabilitation Medicine

Grade: MT04

Department: Medicine for Older People, Rehabilitation and Stroke

Reports to: Dr Mike Homer-Ward, Dr Ryan Fielder Consultants in Rehabilitation Medicine.

Qualifications

Essential

• Primary medical qualification recognised by the GMC.
• Full GMC registration with a licence to practise.
• Evidence of completion of Foundation Year 2 competencies or equivalent.
• Full right to work in the UK MRCP, MRCS, MRCGP or other relevant postgraduate qualification.

Experience

Essential

• Broad postgraduate clinical experience relevant to the care of medically complex adults
• Ability to independently assess and manage common acute medical problems and recognise when specialist assistance is required
• Evidence of safe, evidence-based clinical practice
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team
• Good organisational and time-management skills
• Ability to take appropriate responsibility, make decisions within competence and escape appropriately
• Flexibility and ability to respond constructively to changing clinical circumstances.
• Commitment to patient-centred, compassionate care.
• Understand and manage personal workload

Desirable

• Experience in Rehabilitation Medicine or neurorehabilitation
• Experience in acute/general medicine, neurology, neurosurgery, trauma, orthopaedics or emergency medicine
• Experience of managing patients with complex disability
• Previous experience in a level 1/2a Specialist rehabilitation unit
• Experience of supervising, supporting or guiding junior doctors
• Experience of complex discharge planning or family meetings
• Skills to interpret relevant imaging such as CT/MRI/CTA

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.