Locum Consultant in Acute Medicine

Would you like to join a centre of excellence in rural and remote healthcare?

Main area Emergency Services Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Locum: 12 months (Option to extend by mutual agreement) Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (Willing to discuss flexibility & Job Plan if successful in application.) Job ref 262-A-26-

Site West Cumberland Hospital Town Whitehaven Salary £113,565 - £150,569 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 02/07/:59

Job overview

Are you considering your next career opportunity? If so, we'd love to show you why should consider joining us here in North Cumbria. We're investing into Acute Medicine services, and we can invest in you, too.

We support Locum Consultants to transition into substantive posts with us through our outstanding Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR) pathway. At NCIC, we are proud of our track record, with a 100% success rate in supporting doctors from a wide range of specialties achieve their career goals. We offer a highly supportive development environment, having successfully helped doctors from specialities including emergency medicine, anaesthetics, endocrinology, gastroenterology, histopathology, orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology, and radiology. Joining us means benefiting from structured guidance, proven success, and a genuine commitment to helping you progress to a substantive consultant position.

Main duties of the job

There is real scope to shape your role around what you do best.

If you have a special interest in frailty, virtual wards, hospital admission avoidance, front-door streaming or ambulatory care, we would actively welcome a conversation. We are flexible in how roles are built and happy to tailor job plans to align with your interests, experience and development goals. Whether you are passionate about clinical leadership, pathway development, education, or system working across primary and secondary care, there is space here for you to make a meaningful impact.

This is an opportunity to join a service with momentum and ambition. You will be joining a team that is honest about the challenges of acute care, but equally committed to doing things better: for patients and for staff. Our vision is clear: the right patient, in the right place, at the right time, led by the right clinician. If you're looking for a role where your expertise is valued, your ideas welcomed, and the service is genuinely evolving rather than standing still, we'd encourage you to get in touch for an informal discussion.

Working for our organisation

New leadership and investment at North Cumbria Integrated Care has created an opportunity for 5 new Acute Medical Consultants who will be integral to the redesign of our Acute Medicine services.

New funding will mean we can facilitate early senior decision making, expand Medical SDEC facilities and advise from the point of referral in our new single point of access Hub.

Working for NCIC, you will benefit from:

• Joining an established, but expanding Acute Medicine Consultant team who are engaged, passionate and driven to deliver high quality care across North Cumbria
• Excellent research, teaching and innovative opportunities from our partnerships with the Pears Cumbria School of Medicine and our regional providers in the Great North Healthcare Alliance.
• A leadership development pathway for Consultants, right through to Executive Medical Director.

The Trust Board has recently approved a £4 million investment into our Urgent and Emergency Care services. The investment will support a modern Acute Medical service, including a significantly expanded and purpose built Medical Same Day Emergency Care unit, with protected consultant presence and strengthened multidisciplinary working.

Our future model prioritises early senior review, ambulatory pathways, frailty focused care and better use of virtual wards and community services. This is about delivering safer care, reducing unnecessary admissions, and improving across the whole hospital.

Benefits

• 27 day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years
• NHS Discounts
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
• Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work related problems
• Subject to eligibility

Person specification Education and qualifications

• Full Registration with the General Medical Council.
• Member of the Royal College of Physicians or equivalent.
• Proof of competency in emergency and elective index cases.
• Special interest or certification in any medical specialty.
• Entry on the GMC specialist register via relevant CCT (proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview), relevant CESR or European Community Rights.

Experience and knowledge

• High level of clinical experience and competence in Acute Medicine.
• Excellent communication skills with patients, colleagues, managers and other staff.
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients.
• A commitment to, and experience of teaching.
• An interest in developing links with Primary Care.
• Completed Higher Specialist Training (CCT) in General (Internal) Medicine, Acute Internal Medicine or evidence of equivalent competency.

Teaching

• Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff.
• Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates.
• Teaching of non medical health professionals.
• Educational Qualification.

Research, Audit and Clinical Governance

• Experience of, and commitment to, medical audit.
• Experience of research and Clinical Governance.
• Publications in referred journals.Ability to supervise postgraduate research.

Equalities and diversity

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Contact

Dr Daniel Zehnder
Clinical Director - Acute Medicine
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