Main area: Acute Medicine
Grade: Consultant
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Leave cover)
Hours: Full time
Job ref: 251-MD24120
Employer: Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Basingstoke & North Hampshire Hospital
Town: Basingstoke
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 pa
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 29/10/2024 08:00
Locum Consultant in Acute Medicine
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
Job overview
We are looking to appoint a Trust/ Locum Acute Physician to help consolidate our existing service. The Trust sees this appointment as a key part of an exciting opportunity to develop an innovative approach to acute medical care that places unscheduled care as the central function of the Trust in collaboration with local community partners. This post will support the 3 existing Consultants in Acute Medicine at Basingstoke and will be pivotal in delivering a consultant lead service for our Acute Medical Assessment Units. It will bolster the current model of care provided by Acute Medicine specialists and increase the scope and the quality of our front line service in line with our patient needs.
This is a 10 PA post.
The successful applicant will be expected to:
* Join the Acute Medicine team and deliver the Trust's urgent care strategy, working closely with Emergency and Specialist Physicians, Older persons services, and Primary care to build an efficient and seamless system of care.
* Provide Consultant service on the Acute Medical Assessment Unit and in reach to the Emergency Department, including Rapid Ambulatory Assessment services and direct GP admission services.
* Participate in teaching and training of junior staff.
* Participate in audit and take responsibility for clinical governance.
Main duties of the job
This post has been devised to provide consistent Consultant presence on the Acute Medical Unit ensuring national quality indicators for acute medicine are met. Consultant Acute Physicians will provide leadership on the Acute Medical Unit and in ED from Monday to Friday, supporting acute teams in the assessment, initial treatment, and care planning for acutely ill patients referred from ED or local General Practitioners. They will be responsible for the day-to-day clinical management of the unit and develop strong links with ED, radiology, pathology, and other clinical specialty teams to create efficient care pathways to improve patient care. Leadership of the multidisciplinary team is required to promote early discharge. The daily rapid access admission avoidance ambulatory outpatient service is also to be supported by the appointee with the existing Consultant Acute Physicians.
Staffing on the Basingstoke site consists of the duty Specialist Registrar, CMT 1/CMT2, F2, and 1 F1’s and is supported by the on-call team out of hours. There is also a dedicated CMT doctor and FY1. 2 acute medicine training posts are also based within the hospital. Consultant cover is provided and overnight by general/acute physician rota.
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester, and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information, please see attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Professional Qualifications
* MBBS or equivalent
* Full GMC Registration with a licence to practise
* Entry on the Specialist Register in General Internal Medicine or Acute Medicine (or CCT expected within 3 months of date of interview)
* MRCP (UK) or equivalent
* NHS Experience
Clinical Experience & Knowledge
* Recent Clinical training & experience equivalent to that required for gaining (UK) CCST in General medicine or Acute medicine
* Expertise in initiatives for reducing admissions
* Guideline and pathway development
Clinical Skills & Ability
* 3 years experience
* Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively
* Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
* Proven ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team and display leadership
Other specific requirements
* Ability to understand local and national political agendas and respond accordingly
* Ability to perform effectively and maturely in management roles for the benefit of the service.
* Ability to plan strategically and to demonstrate sound judgement
* Ability to lead, motivate and develop the multidisciplinary team
* Ability to organise work of self and team in an efficient and effective way
* Evidence of experience and active engagement in clinical audit
* Ability to work flexibly with colleagues, sometimes at short notice
* Ability to manage staff and resources
* Experience managing and leading specialist working parties
* Formal training in management and administration
* Experience in managing staff rotas
Research & Teaching
* Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
* Awareness of current acute medical initiatives and developments
* Recent relevant clinical teaching experience within medical and allied disciplines
* Participation in research
* Publications in relevant peer-reviewed journals
* Formal training in clinical supervision of junior doctors
* Other educational formal qualifications
Our commitment to you:
We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part-time working will be considered.
The paperwork:
* HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first – as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.
* Shortlisted candidates will be contacted at least 5 working days before the scheduled interview date. Applications will be submitted directly into our preferred third-party recruitment system (Trac). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs via email - please ensure to check your junk/spam folders.
* All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.
* In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.
* This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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