Job summary
- Main area
- Acute Medicine
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 151-WPHCON-25
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/01/2025 12:00
Employer heading
Consultant in Acute Medicine
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
We are excited to welcome a Consultant in Acute Medicine to join our enthusiastic and dynamic group of Acute Physicians at Frimley Health Foundation NHS Trust.
You will join a team of 6 acute medical consultants (equating to 5 WTEs) and at a stage where we are looking to expand our service.
The current acute medicine service spans across:
64 beds, the Acute Medical Unit comprises of a 34 bedded medical short stay unit (MSSU) and 34 bedded assessment unit (AAU)
Consultant led AECU
In-reach into the Emergency Department.
Acute Medicine consultants currently rotate through AECU, AAU, MSSU and post-take in-reach into ED shifts.
Other speciality teams work closely with the acute medical team with a chest pain in-reach service from cardiology 7 days a week and an acute frailty service supporting referrals directly from the ED and AAU/MSSU. We have a 24 hour primary PCI which have direct access pathways.
The annualised rota would equate to a 10PA/week on average with participation in the general medicine on-call rota. This is a 1:8 weekend commitment which includes ward rounds on AAU & MSSU and post-taking in ED.
We offer a competitive relocation package for those wishing to relocate for this opportunity.
Main duties of the job
The expansion will allow a restructure of the current working pattern below and therefore is subject to change, but the current roles and PA allocation is noted below.
The appointees will be provided with office space and excellent secretarial support.
The job plan will be offered as 10 PAs although there may be opportunities to increase or decrease the number of PAs by discussion and mutual agreement.
The 10/11 PAs will comprise follows:
· Direct Clinical Care 8/9 PAs incl. weekend rota
· Supporting Professional Activities 2 PAs
Working for our organisation
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide a high quality service (together with consultant colleagues) in Acute Care to the people of Frimley and the surrounding area with appropriate evidence based guidelines and clinical governance structure
- To contribute to the multi-disciplinary team working especially on the Acute Medical Unit to drive flow and enhance efficient acute medical care to patients.
- To liaise with other specialites as required.
- To advise clinical colleagues on matters within their sphere of expertise;
- To offer advice to medical, nursing, managerial and other staff on appropriate matters;
- To carry out medical teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required;
- To participate in the formal appraisal of junior medical staff in accordance with guidelines from the Royal College of Physicians and the Regional Postgraduate Dean;
- To contribute to postgraduate and continuing medical education activity including Continuing Professional Development
- To contribute if appropriate to the training of nurses, paramedical, scientific and technical staff;
- To participate in medical audit on a regular basis and to help develop it;
- To provide information as required from time to time for legitimate management purposes, for example to support job planning, service development etc.
- To contribute to the management process within the Trust through participation in planning, project or liaison groups as appropriate. In particular the post holder would be fully involved in specialty and divisional level business meetings
- To support the Chief of Service and the Associate Director for Acute and Emergency Medicine appropriate advice with regard to the development of services.
- To work within the framework of policies and procedures relevant to Medical and Dental staff
- To participate fully in mandatory training as required and modified by the Trust from time to time and also in annual appraisal, job planning and revalidation procedures The duties are subject to review from time to time in the light of the changing requirements of the service.
The duties will be reflected in the job plan, which will be subject to review at least once a year in conjunction with the Chief of Service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MRCP (UK)
- CCT (or equivalent) in acute internal medicine and / or general internal medicine (or within 6 months of achieving at the time of application)
- Full GMC registration
Desirable criteria
- SCE in Acute Medicine
- Other post-graduate degree MD/PhD
- FAMUS accreditation
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of acute presentations in adult medicine
- Experience in managing acute medical patients on an AMU, ambulatory settings eg SDEC and MDT working
- Involvement in the unselected medical take
- Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of acute medicine services
- Experience in leading a multidisciplinary team
Desirable criteria
- Training in HDU/ICU medicine
- Experience of business planning
- Management experience/training
- Involvement in the design or delivery of ambulatory medicine, an AMU or augmented discharge pathways
Skills/mental abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to evaluate own clinical practice
- Able to demonstrate innovative thinking
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Ability to organise and develop service provision
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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 Chris Orchard
- Job title
- Chief of Service - Acute Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0000000000
- Additional information
Johan Jordaan, Acute Medicine Consultant and Clinical Lead,
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