Locum Consultant - Acute Medicine

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.

This is a 12 month fixed term maternity cover.

The current acute medicine service spans across:

64 beds, the Acute Medical Unit comprises of a 34 bedded medical short stay unit (AMU Blue) and 34 bedded assessment unit (AMU Green)

Consultant led Medical Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC)

In-reach into the Emergency Department.

Acute Medicine consultants currently rotate through Medical SDEC, AMU Blue, Green 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 AMU Blue and Green. We have a 24 hour primary PCI which have direct access pathways.

The annualised rota would equate to 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 AMU Blue and Green and post-taking in ED.

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 PAs will comprise follows:

Supporting Professional Activities 2 PAs

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Interim Clinical Lead - Acute Medicine - WPH

Job responsibilities

• To provide a high quality service (together with consultant colleagues) in Acute Care to the people of the surrounding area with appropriate evidence based guidelines and clinical governance structure
• To liaise with other specialties 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.

Person Specification Qualifications

• 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
• SCE in Acute Medicine
• Other post-graduate degree MD/PhD
• FAMUS accreditation

Experience

• 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
• Training in HDU/ICU medicine
• Experience of business planning
• Involvement in the design or delivery of ambulatory medicine, an AMU or augmented discharge pathways

Skills/mental abilities

• Able to evaluate own clinical practice
• Able to demonstrate innovative thinking
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Ability to organise and develop service provision

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.