Consultant - General Medicine

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Camberley; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK seeks a Consultant in General Medicine to enhance patient care and lead a dynamic team. The candidate will manage a general medical ward and must have NHS experience, relevant qualifications, and strong clinical skills. This role offers flexibility in working patterns and the opportunity to contribute to innovative healthcare practices.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Professional development opportunities

Commitment to work-life balance

Qualifications

• Experience in the NHS providing expert clinical opinions.
• Ability to manage acute medical patients.
• Full GMC Registration required.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical supervision and support to resident doctors.
• Agree a formal job plan with the Chief of Medicine.
• Cross-cover essential services during colleague leave.

Skills

Leading an MDT team

Expert clinical opinion

Managing acute medical patients

Education

MRCP, CCT or equivalent

Post graduate degree, MD/PhD

Job description

Job Overview

We are excited to welcome a dynamic Consultant in General Medicine with good general medical experience and the ability to work closely with the MDT and specialty colleagues as necessary to ensure efficient patient journeys, and high-quality care to join our enthusiastic and dynamic group of Physicians at Frimley Health Foundation NHS Trust. If the right applicant has a concurrent specialty CCT, we could discuss the option of some potential clinic/procedural time depending on specialty, this would be subject to negotiation.

Main duties of the job

We are looking to expand our medical workforce within the medical teams to run a stable 27 bedded general medical ward and a variable number of medical outliers in other zones as the need arises over winter (may be up to 35-40 patients) with 2 consultants. These would be relatively short stay patients so would need dynamic individuals with good general medical experience and ability to work closely with the MDT and specialty colleagues as necessary to ensure efficient patient journeys and high-quality care. The right applicant would need to provide good clinical supervision and support of a team of resident doctors, but not formal educational supervision.

Working for our organisation

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.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The post-holder will be managerially accountable to the Chief of Service, and professionally accountable to the Chief Medical Officer. The successful candidate will be expected to agree a formal job plan with the Chief of Medicine indicating the number of programmed activities, within 1 month of taking up post.

The post-holder will be expected to cross-cover essential services when his/her consultant colleagues are on leave.

The successful candidate will be expected to agree a formal job plan with the Chief of Medicine indicating the number of fixed sessions, within 1 month of taking up post.

Any consultant who is unable, for personal reasons, to work full-time will be eligible to be considered for this post. If such a person is appointed, modification of the job plan will be discussed on a personal basis in consultation with consultant colleagues.

The appointment is subject to a satisfactory medical report from the Trust’s Occupational Health department.

You will be paid in accordance with the Terms and Conditions for Consultant Medical Staff and assimilated to the salary scale taking account of all relevant Consultant service.

Annual Leave must be applied for at least six weeks in advance and approved by the Clinical Unit Lead, with cross cover consideration from the other Consultant covering this unit. The annual entitlement is thirty days per year.

All medical staff under contract to Frimley Health NHS Trust will be expected to comply with local policies and procedures, copies of which are available on the Trust’s Intranet site, from the Human Resources Department or from the Clinical Unit General Manager and will be expected to attend Mandatory training sessions.

Person specification

Other

Essential criteria

• Experience - Leading an MDT team
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Involvement in the design or delivery of medicine, discharge pathways
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• NHS experience, able to provide expert clinical opinion, experience in managing acute medical patients on AMU setting e.g. SDEC.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Business planning, management or experience in training
  
  

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Qualifications - MRCP, CCT or equivalent. Full GMC Registration
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Post graduate degree, MD/PhD
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. 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 are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

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, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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