Locum Consultant Acute Medicine

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

Job summary

A medical trust in Gillingham seeks a Locum Consultant in Acute Medicine to lead patient care and shape service improvements. You will manage junior doctors within the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring timely, high-quality care. Applicants must have full GMC registration, MRCP, and relevant experience. The role offers a salary range of £109,725 to £145,478 annually, pro-rata, alongside various flexible work opportunities.

Benefits

Gym

Health and wellbeing programme

On-site nursery

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Full GMC Registration and MRCP are mandatory.
• General training in Acute/General Medicine to specialist level.
• Experience teaching and conducting clinical audits is essential.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high quality care is provided to patients promptly.
• Be a clinical leader shaping service improvements.
• Directly manage junior doctors within the team.

Skills

Clinical Governance principles

Teaching experience

Experience in clinical audit

Experience in SDEC

Education

Full GMC Registration with a licence to practice

Full MRCP

Working towards CCT/CESR in Acute/General Medicine

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 an 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 important 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.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

About us

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

The NHS are 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 Trusts 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.

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 services developments, improving quality and safety and directly managing junior doctors within the wider multi-disciplinary team.

Person Specification

Qualification

• 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 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

Value Based Question

• How would you ensure you represent MFT in a positive way?

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

£109,725 to £145,478 a year, Pro Rata