Medical

Description

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.

Description

• 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.

Description

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.

Description

Applicants are required to be on the Specialist Register for Clinical Radiology, have CCT in Clinical Radiology or be within six months of obtaining it by the interview date. Full Registration with the GMC is essential.

The current fellowship aims to provide the successful candidate with an excellent educational environment to develop their neuroimaging skills and allow them to take a consultant post in a tertiary neuroscience centre

Description

Expectations of the position - The successful candidate will be in year 7 / 8 of plastic surgery training (or equivalent), have passed FRCS (Plast) or equivalent and will have special interest in microsurgery reflected in the application form.

The successful candidate will be expected to be involved in teaching and to undertake clinical audit projects. The successful candidate will be expected to attend specialist clinics in ortho – plastic surgery.

This post is recognised for training by the Specialist Advisory Committee in Plastic Surgery and has Royal College Approval.

Candidates must have GMC registration that allows them to work in posts that are not recognised for training. It is essential that candidates have experience and familiarity with UK hospital systems and practices or equivalent.

Description

 The post-holder will be responsible for the clinical management of patients under their care, and, in liaison with consultant colleagues, continuity of care when the post-holder is absent.
- As part of the division’s target to expand theatre usage and improve theatre utilisation, the post-holder, with other consultants, will provide flexible theatre cover as part of their weekly programmed activities in addition to a rotational Saturday list aimed at providing extra capacity to meet cancer and RTT targets.
- The post-holder with contribute to the on call consultant and consultant of the week rota.
- The post-holder will be expected to deliver regular clinical sessions in neighbouring trusts as part of outreach specialist clinics.

Description

Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon

This post is subject to Royal College approval 

The Bristol Breast Care Unit was created in 2013 by the amalgamation of all breast care service for the whole of Bristol on one site.  In April 2020, the Unit  amalgamated with the breast services in Weston General Hospital. It is now one of the biggest units in the country serving a population of over 500,000 people.  The unit diagnoses over 1000 breast cancers per annum, operating on close to 1200 patients each year. 

The Bristol Breast Care Centre hosts the Avon Breast Screening Programme which is one of the largest screening programmes in the country.

The MDT includes a dedicated  specialist nursing service who coordinate care pathways for patients diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, as well as a plastic surgery team, specialist breast psychology and enhanced recovery/therapy team. There is a dedicated bi-weekly oncoplastic MDM and a weekly benign MDM.

Oncology services are provided by the Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre.

There are close links with the University of Bristol and we are active in recruitment to breast cancer trials, supported by our own research team.

The clinical team consists of 9 substantive Consultant Breast Radiologists, 2 Breast Clinicians and 2 Consultant Radiographers. Our Surgical team has 9 Substantive Breast Surgeons including a clinical academic professor, 2 Nurse Practitioners and a team of excellent junior doctors.

Description

Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon

This post is subject to Royal College approval 

The Bristol Breast Care Unit was created in 2013 by the amalgamation of all breast care service for the whole of Bristol on one site.  In April 2020, the Unit  amalgamated with the breast services in Weston General Hospital. It is now one of the biggest units in the country serving a population of over 500,000 people.  The unit diagnoses over 1000 breast cancers per annum, operating on close to 1200 patients each year. 

The Bristol Breast Care Centre hosts the Avon Breast Screening Programme which is one of the largest screening programmes in the country.

The MDT includes a dedicated  specialist nursing service who coordinate care pathways for patients diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, as well as a plastic surgery team, specialist breast psychology and enhanced recovery/therapy team. There is a dedicated bi-weekly oncoplastic MDM and a weekly benign MDM.

Oncology services are provided by the Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre.

There are close links with the University of Bristol and we are active in recruitment to breast cancer trials, supported by our own research team.

The clinical team consists of 9 substantive Consultant Breast Radiologists, 2 Breast Clinicians and 2 Consultant Radiographers. Our Surgical team has 9 Substantive Breast Surgeons including a clinical academic professor, 2 Nurse Practitioners and a team of excellent junior doctors.

Description

Clinical duties 

- management of acute admissions - thrombolysis and thrombectomy.

-supervising the care of all patients in HASU and ASU,  along with colleagues providing continuity of care for patients

-providing bi-weekly Consultant level input to patients cared for in the SSARU's at Bristol Royal Infirmary and Weston General Hospital

- delivery of TIA (at Bristol Royal Infirmary) / neurovascular outpatient clinics

Supervision and education

- clinical and educational supervision of juniors including senior clinical fellows

- contribution to training and education of the stroke team

Clinical Audit

Research