Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
We are looking to recruit two whole-time Consultants, offering exciting opportunities for a highly motivated Medic to join a dynamic, rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary acute care.
We believe this is an opportunity to join an established consultant team who lead from the frontline, supported by doctors in training from the Mersey deanery and a skilled nursing team, providing outstanding 24-hour care.
The successful candidate will help us to continue to develop medical services within the Trust, which includes responsibility for not only the acute medical units but also the same day emergency care unit.
The Acute & Emergency Medicine Care Group encompasses the specialities of Acute Medicine and Emergency medicine within the Division of Medicine at the Royal Liverpool Hospital.
The Division's Medical Director is Dr. Mark Lawton with Dr. Patricia Cunningham as the Clinical Director for Acute Medicine. All major clinical subspecialties are represented within the Division of Medicine (cardiology, respiratory medicine, gastroenterology, nephrology, diabetes & endocrinology, clinical gerontology, dermatology & allergy, rheumatology and infectious diseases & clinical pharmacology). Neurology is provided by the regional neurological centre (Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust) based at the University Hospital Aintree campus.
Main duties of the job
Acute emergency medical admissions are preferentially handled within the Acute Medical Unit (AMU), which is situated adjacent to the Emergency Department (ED) at the Royal Liverpool Hospital. This unit deals with the majority (over 90%) of the Division's total acute admissions, whether admitted via ED or through GP referral. The AMU currently has 66 beds, as well as a newly established acute assessment area with 26 fully equipped examination spaces. Approximately 40% of all admissions to the AMU are discharged to home directly from the unit. The median stay on AMU for all patients is in the region of 18 hours.
Since opening in 2018, there has been a significant investment in the ambulatory emergency care service (AEC). There is a dedicated space to assess and manage patients requiring same-day interventions, as well as the facilities to bring patients back for assessment, allowing for safe and early discharge from hospital. There is also a virtual component to the work carried out on AEC, allowing a more efficient way of managing our patients and reducing the number of trips to hospital.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
Job responsibilities
The AMU Consultants work very closely with the AED team, the on-call Medical Specialist Registrars and IMT and Consultant Physicians across the Medical directorate to help support the management of the Acute take.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of main responsibilities.
Person Specification
Academic & Research Skills
* Research Skills: Demonstrates ability to undertake robust audit/research within team structure.
* Teaching Skills: Demonstrates range of teaching techniques relevant to a variety of curricula.
* Degrees, awards, presentations, publications. Evidence of teaching and assessment skills.
Clinical Skills
* Clinical Knowledge & Expertise: Appropriate knowledge base and ability to apply sound clinical judgement to problems. Demonstrates the necessary range, depth, and breadth of competencies specified in the acute and general medicine curriculum and applying to this post.
Language Skills
* All applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English that are adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues.
Fitness to Practice
* Is up to date and fit to practise safely.
* Eligible for full registration with the GMC at time of appointment.
* Membership of Society of Acute Medicine.
* Evidence of achievement of competencies by time of appointment in line with GMC standards/Good Medical Practice including: Good clinical care, Maintaining good medical practice, Good relationships and communication with patients, Good working relationships with colleagues, Good teaching and training, Professional behaviour and probity, Delivery of good acute clinical care.
* Eligibility to work in the UK.
Qualifications
* MB ChB or equivalent medical qualification.
* MRCP (UK) or equivalent.
* CCT in acute medicine or GIM (General Internal Medicine) (or within 6 months).
* CCT in acute Medicine.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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