Consultant for Urgent and Emergency Care
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicants who require a visa to work in the UK, provided the role you’ve been recruited to meets the requirements set by the Home Office.
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint 1.00 WTE Consultant Physician with an interest in Geriatrics within the division of Urgent Community Services to join our expanding team and department. We invite candidates who have a passion for leadership and want to be part of a dynamic team and are willing to work in a fast-paced and busy growing Community NHS Trust.
Main duties of the job
A key aim of this role is to provide consultant cover across our community services, which will include the provision of senior clinical oversight to the Urgent Community Response Team and the Virtual Ward services. This is a key leadership role to support the ongoing transformation of our admission avoidance and step-down service offer to the system, whilst working in key collaboration with our acute trust.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the role, please see the attached document entitled Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Full Registration with GMC.
* MRCP UK or equivalent.
* Specialist registration in Geriatric Medicine and General Internal Medicine or within 6 months of CCT.
* Eligibility for entry on General Medical Council (GMC) Specialist Register or entry within six months of interview.
Experience
* Familiarity with models of care delivery in a community setting.
* Knowledge or experience in service redesign or development.
Skills / Knowledge
* Evidence of experience in providing clinical input into administration of a department.
* Evidence of ability to lead within multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring high quality care and colleague morale.
* Familiar with current structure of Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes.
* Organisational ability.
* Able to take responsibility and cope with stressful situations.
* Credibility and integrity.
* Ability to establish good professional relationships with others.
* Management experience and/or qualification Clinical Leadership courses.
* Experience in service redesign.
Personal Skills
* Effective communicator, excellent presentation skills, able to work in a close-knit team and cooperate with all medical and paramedical staff.
* Ability to problem solve and manage workload and adapt and manage own stress, in a rapidly changing NHS environment.
* Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit. Must have undertaken and completed audit projects or service evaluations.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Sarah Robinson, Job title: Divisional Manager for Urgent & Emergency Care, Email address: sarah.robinson52@nhs.net, Telephone number: 07816373150
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