Consultant in Acute Medicine

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Isleworth; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Consultant in Acute Medicine to join their dedicated team at West Middlesex University Hospital. This role involves delivering high-quality patient care, training junior staff, and contributing to a collaborative healthcare environment. As a leading hospital Trust, committed to diversity and professional growth, the position offers an opportunity to work in a supportive setting that values staff contributions and excellence in medical care.

Qualifications

• Significant experience of NHS and specifically of Acute/General Internal Medicine.
• Teaching experience for undergraduates and postgraduate colleagues.
• Ability to develop competencies and meet training requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality care to patients and ensure involvement in their decisions.
• Contribute to training of medical students and staff.
• Work with clinical colleagues to achieve operational efficiency.

Skills

Knowledge of Acute Medicine Specialty

Commitment to Trust values

Education

MBBS or equivalent

GMC Registration

FCEM or equivalent

CCT/CESR in Acute Medicine or GIM

Job description

We are an award winning organisation providing care at two main hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital—and a number of community-based services across London, such as sexual health and HIV clinics.

With 6,700 members of staff, we are proud to care for a diverse population of one million people. We are committed to ensuring that our workforce is just as diverse with a strong mix of skills and abilities.

Our staff are at the very heart of our organisation and we recognise the valuable contribution that each and every person working at the Trust makes. One of our Trust priorities is to be an employer of choice—a place where people want to start their career and to grow with us through continued education, professional development and support .

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.

**Please note the job description is pending Royal College approval**

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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main 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 Trust’s 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

Work with medical, nursing, other clinical and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:

• 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

• MBBS or equivalent
• GMC Registration
• FCEM or equivalent
• CCT/CESR in Acute medicine or GIM
• MRCP/FRCP Past record of academic achievement Publications in peer reviewed journals in relevant areas.
• Additional related qualifications e.g. BSc, BA
• Level 3 Safeguarding Children as per intercollegiate document

Experience

• Significant Experience of NHS and specifically of Acute/General Internal Medicine
• Understanding of clinical governance and audit
• Under and post graduate teaching experience
• Training in management.
• Understanding of business planning and commissioning.

Skills & Knowledge

• Extensive knowledge of the Acute Medicine Specialty
• Commitment to the PROUD trust values

Important

• The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions when we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. You are therefore advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Please check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process.
• If you have not heard from us within 3 weeks after the closing date, we regret that this usually means your application was not successful.
• In submitting an application, you authorise the Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process, should you be appointed to the post.
• During the recruitment process your identity documentation (ie passport, driving licence, visa etc) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, infrared and machine-readable zone security features of the documents provided.
• Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month probationary period.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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The recruitment team are available to provide support from 9am–5pm, Mon–Fri. To contact the team please call the Trust switchboard and ask for ‘Recruitment team, Human Resources Department’.