Consultant In Acute Medicine

Chelsea And Westminster Hospital Nhs Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Consultant in Acute Medicine to join the Acute Medicine Department at West Middlesex University Hospital in London.

The successful applicant will contribute to high quality inpatient and ambulatory care, work within a multi-disciplinary team, and participate in teaching and clinical governance in line with NHS priorities.

Qualifications

• MBBS or equivalent and GMC registration.
• CCT/CESR in Acute Medicine & GIM or equivalent.
• MRCP/FRCP or equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality care to patients.
• Maintain GMC specialist registration and revalidation.
• Develop and maintain competencies for the post.
• Ensure prompt attendance at direct clinical care programmed activities.
• Involve patients in decisions about their care.
• Adhere to Trust customer service commitments.
• Develop clinical practice through reflection, learning and research.
• Contribute to teaching and supervision of trainees and staff.

Skills

Extensive knowledge in Acute Medicine

Organisational skills

Problem solving

Interpersonal and communication skills

Education

MBBS or Equivalent

GMC Registration

CCT/CESR in Acute Medicine & GIM

MRCP/FRCP

Job description

Job summary

The department of Acute Medicine at West Middlesex University Hospital are looking to recruit an additional consultant to compliment the well-established and forward thinking team. The successful candidate will broaden the collective skill set and will actively contribute to, and support true multi-disciplinary working in line with the Royal College of Physicians and the Department of Health's strategy for modernising acute care within the NHS.

Main duties of the job

The Acute Assessment Unit (AMU) at West Middlesex University Hospital is comprised of 64-beds; 58 inpatient beds & 6 enhanced care beds.Telemetry is provided for those patients requiring it and the ITU is located on the same floor. The Ambulatory Emergency Care (AEC) unit offers high quality same-day emergency care (SDEC) and is comprised of a trolley-based area for assessment and treatment; treatment chairs & rooms - alongside allocated outpatient clinic space.

Emergency medical admissions are rapidly assessed in the Emergency Department and then if admission is required, directly transferred to the AMU for further management. All cases, unless requiring CCU or critical care, are managed on the Unit until discharged back to the community or transferred for further in-patient care to the appropriate speciality area.

About us

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have over 6,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff say they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

In 2020, The Trust was rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Outstanding' in the well-led and use of resources domains and 'Good' in the safe, effective, caring and responsive domains. The Trust as a whole was 'Good', but the Chelsea site was 'Outstanding'.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We are currently spending c. £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children's unit at West Middlesex - in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.

Job responsibilities

Key Result Areas, Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide High Quality Care to Patients
• The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration and revalidation.
• Develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.
• Ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care Programmed Activities.
• Ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views.
• Adhere to the Trust Customer Service Commitment and adopt a professional approach to customer care at all times.
• Develop clinical practice through self-reflection and learning from experience, application of research into practice and active contribution within the multi-disciplinary team.

Research, Teaching and Training

• Contribute to high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions.
• To contribute to training and teaching of medical trainees, medical students, other doctors in training and other staff groups.
• Contribute to teaching and training non-Consultant postgraduate colleagues.
• Contribute to the clinical and/or educational supervision and appraisal of training grade doctors in order to ensure external accreditation of training posts.
• Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trusts translational research/audit portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of Research Governance.
• There is flexibility in the job plan to dedicate variable amounts of time to research, teaching and training depending on individual interests.
• Ensure that your mandatory training is up to date as per Trust policy.

Performance Management

• Clinical efficiency e.g. Length of Stay (LOS) reductions, admission on day of surgery, reducing cancelled operations and DNA rates.
• Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-admission rates.
• Financial management e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improvement programmes and participating in efforts to ensure services are provided cost effectively e.g. managing locum agency spend, monitoring and managing the drug budget to target, ensuring accuracy of clinical data for the team.
• Operational efficiency e.g. day-case rates, waiting list activity and demand management.

Medical Staff Management and Accountability

• Responsible for on-going assessment and regular appraisal of all doctors in training, Trust doctors and non-consultant grades as delegated by the Divisional Medical Director/Service Lead /Divisional Director of Operations.
• Adhere to Trust / department guidelines on leave, including requesting and reporting absence, and professional and study leave, and to ensure that members of staff for whom you are responsible do the same.
• Participate in team objective setting as part of the annual job planning cycle.
• Participate fully in regular departmental activities including department meetings and team building activities.

Please refer to our detailed job description for more information

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

• MBBS or Equivalent
• GMC Registration
• CCT/CESR in Acute Medicine & GIM
• MRCP/FRCP

Desirable

• Higher Degree
• Additional Related Qualifications e.g. BSc, BA
• Teaching/Education Qualifications

Experience

Essential

• Significant Experience of NHS and Acute Medicine
• Understanding of Clinical Governance & Audit
• Under/Postgraduate Teaching Experience

Desirable

• Training in Management
• Understanding of Business Planning and Commissioning

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Extensive Knowledge in Acute Medicine
• Organisational Skills
• Problem Solving
• Good Interpersonal and Communication Skills

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.

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