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Consultant Physician in Acute Medicine

Employer
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
Location
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Salary
£82,096 to £110,683 a year
Closing date
28 Sep 2021

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Job Details

Same Day Emergency Care, AEC Accelerator Programme and personal commitment from the Trust senior leadership team to support you personally in your career are just some of the reasons you should read on.

We believe we have the best Consultant Leader & Management Development Programme in the NHS a bold statement but one our Medical Director, Dr Michael Chilvers stands by. Our complete commitment to developing careers means were looking for proactive, motivated, forward thinking and dynamic individuals to join our front door clinical team.

Main duties of the job

This post is an important part of our ongoing development of acute medical services, offering the successful applicant the opportunity to work closely with the existing acute physicians to provide a high standard of acute care across the Trust. We will match your enthusiasm, commitment and drive to work closely with colleagues with a structure that allows you to be part of a developing team to help lead the organisation to deliver excellent Acute care for our patients.

This is a substantive appointment, based predominantly at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage. The post comprise 10 programmed activities (PAs) and weekend on-call commitment, for 10.5 PAs in total, which could be modified for a candidate preferring to work 10 PAs or less than full time.

About us

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is a very special organisation. Our teams are amazing, and this has been demonstrated even more so during the unprecedented challenge brought by the Covid-19 pandemic. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

ABOUT OUR HOSPITALS

Lister Hospital, Stevenage

  • provides a full range of outpatient, inpatient, emergency, maternity and diagnostic services
  • have a designated trauma centre
  • provides a 24/7 heart attack service
  • have the biggest renal dialysis service in the region
  • is working to become a hyper acute stroke unit
  • is the only robotic urology surgery training organisation in the country

Job description

 

  • Providing high quality patient centred care
  • Shared responsibility for the day to day management of the service and participation in strategic planning
  • Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service
  • Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and directorate clinical governance activity
  • Active participation in continuing medical education

 


Person Specification
Fitness to Practice
Essential

 

  • Up to date and fit to practice safely and aware of own training needs
  • Evidences engagement with appraisal and revalidation

Research
Essential

  • Participation in research

Desirable

  • Published papers and original work in peer reviewed journals

Personal Skills
Desirable

  • Computer literacy and general IT skills
  • Formal training and/or qualification in management and administration

Audit
Essential

  • Experience of audit and evidence of change management

Teaching
Essential

  • Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
  • Ability to teach clinical skills
  • Experience in organising educational activities

Desirable

  • Educational qualification

Clinical Governance
Essential

  • Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors
  • Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice

Clinical Expertise in Speciality/Sub-speciality
Essential

  • Broad range of experience in Acute Medicine in particular: Experience of Ambulatory Care - Fully competent in the management of the acute medical take - Fully competent in the management of inpatients and MDT working with emphasis on short stay

Qualifications
Essential

  • College Membership (MRCP) or qualification of an equivalent level
  • Advanced Life Support or demonstration of ability to achieve ALS immediately upon appointment

Desirable

  • Postgraduate academic degree
  • College Fellowship

Eligibility
Essential

  • Entry on GMC Specialist Register or, be within 6 months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview or, provide GMC confirmed eligibility for entry on the Specialist Register

BMJRef: BMJ-42920/361-R2R-1677-D

 

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