Junior Clinical Fellow in MAU (RPH)

In this role you will be working withina supportive andeducationally focused environment andwill be providingjuniorlevel experience(equivalent to FY2/ST1-2)in a teaching hospital withinall the main medical sub-specialities.

This post is based at Royal PrestonHospital,andyou will be an integral part of our team and will be involved directly with the day-to-day functioning ofMedical Assessment Unit(MAU), Emergency department (ED)andSame day emergency care (SDEC).There may be some cross site working as and whenrequired., You willbe requiredto work closely with GP and Emergency Department colleagues while accepting patients for assessment inSDEC.

Our SDEC accepts ED ambulatory patients and GP referrals, who are assessed by ACPs and junior doctors in the unit. These patients are reviewed by senior decision makers and then a final management plan is made. The majority ofthe patients are discharged with follow up plans asrequired.

Working on the SDEC providesgood learning opportunities with one-to-one interactions with consultants and registrars.

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust forms one of the major acute trusts in the Northwest of England with all of the usual specialties on site, as well as being a Tertiary Centre for Lancashire and South Cumbria in the Departments of Neurosciences, Nephrology, Oncology, Plastic Surgery and Burns. Undergraduate medical student teaching commenced in 2003.

We offer the full range of acute outpatient and inpatient services to the 380,000 people living in Central Lancashire.

Services are provided across two sites: Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley & South Ribble District General Hospital.

The Medical Directorate is responsible for the provision of a full range of medical services across the Preston and Chorley hospital sites. This includes the following