Job overview
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dedicated and experienced Consultant in Acute Medicine to join our dynamic team. This role is integral to our commitment to enhancing Acute and Emergency Care for our patients. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in our Quality Improvement Programme, contributing to the development of future services for the local population. There are opportunities within the role and wider trust to develop specialist interests and applicants with an existing area of specialist interest or CCT in a speciality other than acute medicine are advised to get in touch and discuss their specific requirements. Current consultants have a broad range of backgrounds, specialities and specialist interests including ECHO; Education; Emergency Medicine; Geriatrics; Governance; Leadership; Quality improvement; POCUS; Respiratory medicine; and Renal medicine. The opportunity also exists within the trust for a Divisional or Care Unit (Clinical Director) level leadership position, allowing the successful applicant to perform an acute medicine role alongside a more senior leadership position.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
1. Provide high quality direct and indirect clinical care.
2. Education, including clinical supervision and participation in team and service clinical meetings.
3. Engage in supporting professional activities such as audit and evaluation, teaching, clinical governance, and essential meetings.
4. Participate in continuous professional development, including fulfilling requirements for GMC revalidation and statutory and mandatory training.
Person specification
Qualifications
* MRCP/FRCP or equivalent
* Full registration with the GMC with a licence to practise and entry on GMC specialist Register or within six months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview.
* Specialist interest or additional qualifications in other areas of specialty
Experience
* Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients with acute and general medical problems
* Ability to organise and manage patient lists and priorities
* Experience in a similar post
* Previous experience of using online patient record system e.g., SystmOne.
* Ability to undertake training/mentoring of clinical staff and enthusiasm for education
Skills
* Clinical supervision experience/skills
* Basic IT skills
* Motivation skills, leadership skills and flexibility.
Flexible Working
If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.
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