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CONSULTANT PHYSICIAN: GIM WITH INTEREST IN STROKE MEDICINE
PART TIME – 5 SESSIONS PER WEEK
Basic Salary: £107,144 - £142,369 per annum pro rata.
Why work for us
Patients are at the centre of everything we do in our daily working lives at NHS Borders ensuring they are safe, cared for efficiently, effectively by suitably experienced and qualified staff driving quality at the heart of patient care. We are a dynamic and forward thinking team with a wealth of clinical and leadership experience. We aim for an open and honest culture and believe in nurturing future stars in NHS.
The Borders General Hospital is the district general hospital serving the Scottish Borders Region. It has 320 beds with 93 acute medical beds of which 12 are in a higher dependency area with monitoring and telemetry facilities. The hospital offers services in General Medicine, Haematology, Palliative Care, Medicine for the Elderly, Stroke Medicine, Paediatrics, General Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, Ophthalmology, ENT, Obstetrics and Gynaecology. There is a 6 bedded ITU and an active outreach programme for critically patients. A recent development is the opening of the Margaret Kerr Unit in January 2013 has provided palliative care services in the Scottish Borders with a purpose-built environment from which to deliver specialist palliative care.
The Borders stroke unit at BGH consists of 14 acute and rehabilitation stroke beds. Patients are admitted via the medical assessment unit and transferred to the stroke unit within 24 hours of admission. There are on average 216 admissions per year with an average length of stay of 18.8 days
The Role
The Consultant Physician: Stroke Medicine, will join our existing stroke Physician and the wider MDT within the Borders Stroke Unit on a part time basis.
Candidates must hold MRCP or equivalent and you should be fully registered with the General Medical Council appearing on the Specialist Register; and ideally have a CCT or equivalent in General Medicine, Neurology, Geriatric or Acute Medicine plus a Stroke CCT. Alternatively, you may be within 6 months of award of a CCT at the time of interview.
The post can involve either covering a ratio of stroke weeks (5 weeks applicant:8 other stroke consultant) with mainly whole weeks in the BGH stroke service or part-time on a weekly basis.
Informal enquiries and visits are welcome. Any applicant wishing to view the department or discuss the vacancy can initially contact Rachel Stewart: rachel.stewart@nhs.scot
***PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early***
*Please note: As this is a part time post the salary shown will be pro rata*
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.