Job summary
- Main area
- Acute Medicine
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term 12 months)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 164-6474591
- Employer
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- QMC Campus
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £99,532 - £131,964 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant in Acute Medicine
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
We are looking for a new colleague to expand our forward thinking and friendly consultant team in Acute Medicine. We are a flexible specialty. We want to provide a varied model for working that keeps people motivated and engaged long term while ensuring a good work life balance. We are offering a 12 month fixed term locum contract.
We are committed to continuous service improvement across all areas of the service for the benefit of patients.
For an outstanding candidate, we may be able to consider a joint appointment with another specialty but acute medicine will be the main focus of this post. We actively encourage flexibility and diversity in our team.
NUH has one of the busiest acute medical takes in the country, taking on average 110 patients per day so if keeping busy is how you thrive, come and join us! We are also having many new unit improvements with our right sizing modelling and Tomorrow’s NUH which includes a new Multi-speciality Same Day Emergency Care Unit (SDEC which Acute Medicine will manage)
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work across all areas of the service
–Acute Medicine Receiving Area (22 trollies and recliners),
- Assessment Unit (currently 64 beds),
- Level 1 (12 monitored beds for initial care of high acuity admission)
- Acute Medicine Rapid Assessment (AMRAT - dedicated ED in reach service that triages referrals from ED) and Telephone Triage.
Consultants are on site 7 days until 22.00 and are well supported by a superb nursing team plus around 45 junior doctors. We are embracing alternative workforce models with a growing team of ACPs, Physician Associates and prescribing pharmacists.
Working for our organisation
Our Acute Medicine department is based on the Queen’s Medical Centre campus. The service is being ambitiously and innovatively restructured, expanded and modernised. This work is already well underway but there are still opportunities for new colleagues to get involved and to influence the shape of our service going forward. Our vision for the service is a senior-led, front door service working across traditional boundaries and in close partnership with colleagues in the ED, Critical Care, medical specialties, and Primary Care.
NUH has a national and international reputation for high quality patient care and research, education and innovation. We have strong links to local universities. This allows for the provision of excellent training and education for students, as well as being a major research organisation.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits including:
- Access to Staff Wellbeing programme including free 24 hour advice and emotional support service, financial advice service, staff physiotherapy and staff support networks
- On site day nursery
- Amazon parcel collection points
- Secure cycle facilities
- Consultant car park on the QMC campus
- Spiritual and Pastoral Care Services
- Salary sacrifice schemes
- Cycle to work and travel passes
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are able to offer a uniquely flexible annualised job pattern which enables people to shape a pattern of working to suit their circumstances. A ‘shift bank’ allows for ease of shift swaps and time in lieu for additional shifts worked above job plan.
We have expanded our bed base, and we have plans to further develop our SDEC provision. We strive to offer the very best care for our patients. The team is committed to providing continuous service improvement with opportunities for everyone to contribute.
We are ambitious in our plans to develop and improve all aspects of our service so would also welcome candidates with qualifications and / or interests in teaching, research, patient safety, quality improvement, management and leadership or bedside ultrasound.
We actively encourage flexibility and diversity of interests in our team; existing consultants are supported in a range of special interests and roles including Maternity Medicine, Toxicology, bedside ultrasound, post graduate medical education and governance. We recognise that all recent trainees have a special interest or skill gained in training and we will incorporate these into the team as fully as possible. Special skills / interests and how these might be incorporated into the role and the wider Acute Medicine team can be discussed informally pre-interview.
Clinical
A full range of Acute Medicine emergency and elective patients are admitted to Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and the appointee will be responsible for the management of those patients admitted under their care.
Provision with Consultant colleagues of a comprehensive elective and emergency Acute Medicine service.
Provision of reciprocal cover for periods of leave.
Continuing responsibility for the care of patients in their charge and the proper functioning of the department.
These duties are subject to review from time to time in the light of the changing requirements of the service. If alterations to the described duties are required these will be mutually agreed between the appointee, their Consultant colleagues, and the Trust.
The person appointed will be required to devote substantially the whole of their time to the duties of the post and give them priority at all times.
Governance and Audit
Each consultant is expected to take an active role in clinical governance activities including (but not restricted to) clinical audit, incident reporting, review of complaints, risk management, CPD and Evidence-Based Practice. Each specialty has a Consultant Clinical Governance lead.
Person specification
Professional Qualification/Registration
Essential criteria
- Full GMC registration (with Licence to Practise)
- MBBS Degree (or equivalent)
- MRCP (UK)
- ALS course (in date)
Desirable criteria
- Speciality Certificate Examination in Acute Medicine
- Has submitted CESR application to the GMC/Royal College
Clinical Skills/Experience
Essential criteria
- Interest and commitment to Acute Medicine
- At least one years experience at Registrar level in the NHS in a GIM specialty
Desirable criteria
- Specific training in communication skills
- Specific training in patient safety and/or human factors
- NHS experience at Registrar level in Acute Medicine
Management Skills
Desirable criteria
- Higher management degree or qualification or training
- Experience of change management
Teaching, Audit & Research
Essential criteria
- Evidence of participation in Clinical Audit.
- Able to teach and support junior staff effectively.
Desirable criteria
- Original Research Publications
- Higher teaching degree or qualification or training
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Shebina Hakda
- Job title
- Head of Service Acute Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Dr Suzanne Watt - Deputy Head of Service [email protected]
Dr Claire Farrington - Deputy Head of Service [email protected]
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