Consultant in Acute Medicine

Acute medicine at East Sussex healthcare Trust is an innovative service with a strong ethos of collaborative multidisciplinary team working. Our Acute Assessment Unit and Same day Emergency Care are co-located in close proximity to the Emergency Department. Considerable investment supports the progress and development of acute medicine, including 7 day working. The successful applicant would primarily be working across AAU and SDEC in collaboration with colleagues from the Emergency Department, Frailty and other medical specialties. We would support candidates with a special interest, or indeed to develop one

Main duties of the job

This post will help with the further development of the Acute Medicine service, as we are working towards being an outstanding trust, the CQC awarded one of our sites, Conquest Hospital Outstanding in 2020, and Eastbourne District General Hospital was awarded Good.

The existing Acute Medicine team are committed to delivering a high quality service and an enthusiastic individual is required to help take these plans forward. This appointment will help to drive forward the development of the SDEC service and ensure that high quality safe care facilitates early discharge, reduce patient length of stay and ensure the transfer of appropriate patients to the sub-specialities. With clinically working in the acute medical ward, providing supervision and educational support to our resident doctor workforce.

The appointee will also be expected to participate in audit, service review, governance meetings, consultant meetings and other service development projects.

About us

A wide range of staff benefits are available to our staff including staff development, enrolment in the NHS pension scheme, auto-enrolment to our Temporary Workforce Service, access to nurseries at Conquest Hospital and Eastbourne District General Hospital, staff restaurants and on-site staff accommodation.

In addition to an internal Occupational Health department, all staff also have access to free psychological support through our confidential Employee Assistance Programme which is available to staff 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Onsite parking is available for a small administration fee.

There has never been a better time to join East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, submit your application today.

Job responsibilities

Please see job description that is pending college approval.

For mor information please contact Fiona Holter, Service Manager -

Person Specification Interview?

• Yes

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.