Doctors - Consultant Physician in Renal Medicine
* Department: Renal Medicine
* Closing Date: 20/09/2024
* Interview Date: 26/11/2024
* Location: The Princess Royal and Royal Shrewsbury Hospital
The Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust has an exciting opportunity to welcome a new Consultant within the Renal Medicine department. The successful candidate will be supported by a team of junior doctors (of training and non-training grades), specialist nurses, advanced practitioners, nurses, therapists, and specialists across the hospital. Contribution to an out of hours on call rota is core to this role.
Main Duties of the Job
Duties will include:
1. Be a part of a consultant lead clinical team providing specialty and general medical care to medical inpatients.
2. Support on-call in-patient ward cover team.
3. Develop enhanced clinical skills, especially in the assessment and management of acutely ill patients.
4. Exhibit excellent team-working skills and a professional attitude to work well in a multi-professional team.
5. Deliver clinical and quality targets agreed both nationally and locally with clinical teams and commissioners.
6. Follow patients throughout their clinical pathways.
Working for Your Organisation
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is the main provider of acute hospital services for around half a million people in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales. Our main service locations are the Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) in Shrewsbury.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
A formal job plan will be agreed between the successful candidate and their Clinical Director and consultant colleagues, on behalf of the Medical Director within 3 months of starting in post. A full-time job plan is based on a 10 PA working week.
For a full-time contract, the job plan will be divided on average per week (pro-rata for a part-time post) as follows:
1. 7.5 Programmed Activities (PAs) of Direct Clinical Care - includes clinical activity, clinically related activity and predictable and unpredictable emergency work.
2. 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs) - includes CPD, audit, teaching and research.
Any applicant who is unable to work full-time will be considered for the post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job content will be discussed on a personal basis with the Trust.
GIM on-call duties usually involve a 1:14 rota for weekdays and weekends. This attracts a 5% supplement for availability.
The well-being of our staff is of the utmost importance. If you are offered a role at our Trust, and fall into the increased and higher risk categories as set out by Public Health England (PHE) and NHSI/E, your line manager will complete a risk assessment with you.
We are committed to offering an interview to all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the above position and will support reasonable adjustments wherever possible. We particularly welcome applications from candidates who are male, from black and minority ethnic backgrounds or who have a disability, as these are currently under-represented in our workforce.
Thank you for your interest in The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, we look forward to receiving your application for employment.
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