Consultant in Acute Medicine

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust; Derby; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as an Acute Medicine Consultant at Royal Derby Hospital, where you'll contribute to a team focused on providing exceptional patient care. With opportunities for professional development and a supportive environment, you will play a vital role in enhancing our Acute Medical Services. Enjoy benefits such as leadership development and staff wellbeing programs while making a meaningful impact in a busy acute care setting.

Benefits

Development opportunities

Employee assistance program

Discounted gym membership

Onsite fitness classes

Car schemes

Qualifications

• Experienced Acute Medicine Consultant with leadership capabilities.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Strong communication skills and commitment to patient care.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct clinical care to patients in the Medical Assessment Unit and Emergency Department.
• Participate in Consultant shifts in the Same Day Emergency Care Centre.
• Work closely with medical specialities for patient assessments.

Skills

Compassion

Teamwork

Leadership

Education

Medical Degree

Fellowship in Acute Medicine

Job description

The post holder will join a successful and dynamic team that have helped transform Acute Medical Care at Royal Derby Hospital. Our vision is ‘to be a pinnacle for best practice and patient care across our emergency and urgent care pathways. We will integrate our services with the wider urgent care network to ensure patients receive the best care possible at the right time and in the right place’.

The Royal Derby Hospital has secured significant funding to reconfigure and redesign our Emergency, Urgent and Acute Care Services to ensure we have the facilities and pathways to meet the changing needs of our patients. We are expanding and redesigning our emergency department, collocating same day emergency care service, urgent care and primary care services. Our assessment units will be expanded and we will provide focus to frailty and mental health pathways. In this context we continue to aim to add further Consultants to our team.

Your clinical role will be working across the Medical Assessment Unit (MAU) Medical Same Day Emergency Care (mSDEC) and provide in reach to our Emergency Department (ED) at the Royal Derby Hospital . You will work 1:6 weekends.

MAU is a 57 bedded unit. When working in MAU for the day you will be one of a team of 3 Acute Medicine Consultants contributing direct clinical care to patients alongside the Junior doctor/ assistant clinical practitioner (ACP) workforce and ward MDT. We also work closely with all our medical specialities who provide Speciality Consultant In reach/Ward rounds 1-2 times per day, 7 days per week.

Our improved Same Day Emergency Care Centre was relaunched at a new on-site location during 2018 and has a dedicated nursing team and a junior doctor workforce. As part of rota commitments you will contribute to Consultant shifts in SDEC.

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In Return We Will Offer

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
  
  

Key Facts About Our Trust

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lubna Habib Job title: Assistant Clinical Director for Acute Medicine Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01332 787606

Lucy Smith Deputy General Manager for Acute Medicine on 01332 787855.

Informal visits are very welcome and we would be delighted to show you around our unit. Please contact our secretary Mrs Jackie Else, Tel: [phone]