Queens Medical Centre University Hospital jobs in Nottingham

Interested in working in a Major Trauma Centre? Experience at the country's busiest Major Trauma Centre is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills.

We are currently recruiting to our Senior Fellow (Registrar level) posts here at the QMC Major Trauma Centre.

Applicants need to be motivated and with a keen interest in the management of Major Trauma patients. Good communication skills are essential as is the ability to work within a multi-disciplinary professional team across a number of different specialties.
As a centre of excellence in the treatment of Major Trauma, the Queen's

Medical Centre is a single site multi-specialty hospital, optimised for the provision of trauma care. It is the primary receiving hospital of the East Midlands Trauma Network and manages all types of injuries, providing a 24 hour consultant led service.
The Major Trauma Consultant and multi-professional team co-ordinate the pathway of care for people with severe trauma injuries. Rehabilitation is commenced as early in the pathway as possible to maximise functional outcomes for the patient.

• To enhance your knowledge and understanding of:

Immediate lifesaving interventions by attending and participating in trauma calls in resus.

• Interpreting initial investigations quickly including blood gas, X ray and CT results in resus.
• Liaising with other members of the trauma team, from all different specialties and documenting findings and plans in the Major Trauma admissions documentation
• The main elements of a trauma call including how these should be coordinated and documented.
• The management of multi system trauma

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

To enhance your knowledge and understanding of:

• Immediate life saving interventions by attending and participating in trauma calls in resus.
• Interpreting initial investigations quickly including blood gas, X ray and CT results in resus.
• Being part of the liaising with other members of the trauma team, from all different specialties and documenting findings and plans in the Major Trauma admissions documentation
• The main elements of a trauma call including how these should be coordinated and documented.
• The management of multi system trauma

To become more skilled in:

• Primary and secondary surveys of Major Trauma patients in resus.
• Tertiary surveys on day 2 of admission.
• Participating in the daily ward round
• The pre-operative assessment of patients with multiple injuries.
• The appropriate use of monitoring in level 1 beds and interpretation of data obtained
• Liaising with the multi professional team in interpreting data for different team members and planning ongoing care.
• The provision of safe and effective care including pain relief to patients undergoing all required surgical procedures.
• The safe and effective use of postoperative pain management to ensure that rehabilitation can be carried out effectively.
• Leading planning of ongoing care and reconstruction phase of the Major Trauma patients’ in patient pathway.
• Surgery lists as required for Major trauma damage limitation and ongoing care surgery.

Research and Academic Requirements
Participation in audit and research is expected. As part of the clinical fellowship you will be required to attend morbidity / mortality meetings.

Teaching
You will be expected to take an active part in the departmental rolling teaching programme, both of the Junior Fellow post holders and medical students.

Please refer to the attached JD and PS for further details

We Reserve the right to close the vacancy early