64 Temporary, Healthcare / Pharmaceuticals jobs in Benson, South Oxfordshire

a) Principal Responsibilities Clinical: Principle responsibilities of the post holder are to work with the consultants in the day-to-day management of inpatients, outpatients, to assist, advise and supervise junior doctors and to perform administrative duties e.g. discharge summaries, clinic letter, arranging admissions and surgical procedures. The post holder is expected to take part in clinical audit. Research: The post holder will be able to declare an interest in performing research in laparoscopic surgery, paediatric surgical oncology or paediatric urology. If this is the case time will be allocated to undertake research.Working for our organisation The Department of Paediatric Surgery provides a comprehensive service for children up to 16 years of age for Oxfordshire and is a tertiary referral service for a catchment area of 3 million from Winchester to Kettering, Milton Keynes to Cheltenham for paediatric surgery and paediatric urology. In the John Radcliffe Hospital there is a 20 bed surgical ward which is shared with orthopaedic surgery. We work closely with neonatal and paediatric intensive care units and high dependency units. A regional Neonatal Surgical Service for the Oxford Region is delivered and currently approximately 200 neonatal surgical emergencies are treated each year. There are close links between paediatric surgery and both, other surgical specialties and paediatric subspecialties including gastro-enterology, oncology, cardiology, neurology and fetal medicine.Detailed job description and main responsibilities Daily Commitment AM PM Monday Clinical Clinical Tuesday Clinical Clinical Wednesday Off post on call / clinical if not on call Tuesday Thursday Clinical Clinical Friday Departmental teaching Audit Clinical allocations can be daytime on call, theatre or clinics. On call: one night per week (Monday - Thursday, 5 out of 8 weeks), Friday night (1 out of 8), weekend (1 out of 8) This timetable currently reflects the allocations for a clinical fellow who does not wish to perform research. If the post holder decides to pursue research some of the clinical time will be reallocated as research time. The timetable has to be flexible enough to allow short term changes to cover clinical commitments as required. c) Job Summary (clinical/ administrative) All registrars are fully supervised and supported at all times. They are expected to:

• Participate in clinical and other service activities with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care
• Supervise junior doctor's ward work (including discharge letters)
• Conduct routine hand over ward rounds at 7.45am every morning & working ward rounds there-after as well as hand over to the on-call team every evening
• Organize and attend theatre lists in discussion with the consultant
• Attend outpatient clinics & dictate clinic letters
• Be responsible for patient transfers to other hospitals - they must give appropriate & relevant advice to assist in the patient transfer
• Take calls from GPs / other hospitals who wish to refer patients
• Take initiative to improve continuity & maintain patient care
• Participate in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training
The on-call is 1in8 with prospective cover. The rota is EWTD compliant but could be reconfigured as a 1in7 with EWTD compliance maintained if necessary.


• Full GMC with licence to practice
• Successful completion of MRCS or equivalent, Experience in paediatric surgery (minimum 6 months)
• Logbook documentation of surgical exposure to date
• Capacity to operate effectively under pressure
• Awareness of own limitations & when to ask for help
• Capacity to manage time and prioritise workload, balance urgent & important demands
• Capacity to work effectively in a MultiDisciplinary Team
• Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues
• Capacity to communicate effectively & sensitively with others
• Able to discuss treatment options with patients in a way they can understand
Desirable criteria
• Experience in paediatrics / neonatology
• Experience in laparoscopic surgery
• APLS or PALS or equivalent, Evidence of active participation in audit
• Evidence of contributing to teaching & learning of others
• Ability to provide complete details of employment history
• Evidence that career progression is consistent with personal circumstances
Desirable criteria
• Experience in setting up a research projec, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.