Locum Consultant Acute Medicine

Medway NHS Foundation Trust; Gillingham; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Gillingham seeks a Locum Consultant in Acute Medicine to deliver high-quality care. Responsibilities include managing service developments and leading a multi-disciplinary team. Candidates must possess Full GMC Registration and MRCP, with experience in Acute Medicine. This role offers a salary range of £109,725 to £145,478 per year, pro rata, along with flexible working opportunities.

Benefits

Gym

Health and wellbeing programme

On-site nursery

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Full GMC Registration with a licence to practice.
• Experience in teaching doctors-in-training and undergraduates.
• General training in Acute / General Medicine to specialist level.

Responsibilities

• Ensure effective and high-quality care for patients in a timely manner.
• Shape service developments and improve quality and safety.
• Directly manage junior doctors within the multi-disciplinary team.

Skills

Acute/General Medicine expertise

Clinical Governance principles

Teaching skills

Education

Full GMC Registration

Full MRCP

Working towards CCT/CESR

Job description

Job Title: Locum Consultant Acute Medicine (12 months post)

Division: Medicine and Emergency Care Division

Care Group: Emergency and Acute

We are recruiting for a Locum Consultant in Acute Medicine who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

One of your three references should be from the Medical Director / Chief Medical Officer of your most recent NHS employer (or their nominated deputy), or equivalent for applicants from non-NHS posts. For applicants who are still in a training post, or have completed training within the past year and have not worked in a non-training NHS role since then, a reference from EACH of your two most recent Educational Supervisors can be substituted.

Main duties of the job

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is essential that you understand and refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies/procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring effective and high-quality care is provided to patients in a timely manner, in conjunction with colleagues in the Emergency Department, AAUs, and Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) for increasing the acute consultant presence and ambulatory care options. The postholder will be a clinical leader responsible for shaping service developments, improving quality and safety, and directly managing junior doctors within the wider multi-disciplinary team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Full GMC Registration with a licence to practice
• Full MRCP
• Working towards CCT/CESR in Acute/General Medicine. Will be on the specialist register within the next 6 months.

Knowledge

• Clinical Governance principles

Experience

• General training in Acute / General Medicine to specialist level or equivalent
• Experience of teaching doctors-in-training and undergraduates
• Experience of clinical audit
• Experience in working in an SDEC

What we offer

The NHS is striving towards 'we work flexibly' as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you, and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

All of our substantive & fixed-term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery, and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit, and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under-represented groups to support the Trust's commitment to a diverse, inclusive, and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply with the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people, and vulnerable adults.

£109,725 to £145,478 a year, per annum Pro Rata