Locum Consultant - Acute Medicine

We are excited to welcome a Consultant in Acute Medicine to join our enthusiastic and dynamic group of Acute Physicians at Frimley Health Foundation NHS Trust. You will join a team of 6 WTE acute medical consultants at a stage where we are looking to expand our service. The current acute medicine service spans across a 42 bedded Acute Medical Unit, a Consultant led AECU and in-reach into the Emergency Department. Acute Medicine consultants currently rotate through AECU, AMU and post-take in-reach into ED shifts. Other speciality teams work closely with the acute medical team with a chest pain service in-reach service from cardiology 7 days a week and an acute frailty service supporting referrals directly from the ED and AMU. We have a 24 hour hyperacute stroke service and 24 hour primary PCI which have direct access pathways.

The annualised rota would equate to a 10PA/week on average with participation in the general medicine on-call rota. This is a 1:8 weekend commitment which includes resident ward rounds on AMU and post-taking and non-resident on-call for the rest. Appointee(s) could choose to participate in alternative on-call rotas such as Stroke or ICU if their credentials support this. We already have 2 Acute Physicians participating in the Stroke on-call rota. We offer a competitive relocation package for those wishing to relocate for this opportunity.

Main duties of the job

• The expansion will allow a restructure of the current working pattern below and therefore is subject to change, but the current roles and PA allocation is noted below.
• The appointees will be provided with office space and excellent secretarial support.
• The job plan will be offered as 10 PAs although there may be opportunities to increase or decrease the number of PAs by discussion and mutual agreement.
• The 10/11 PAs Will Comprise Follows:

• Direct Clinical Care 8/9 PAs incl. weekend rota
• Supporting Professional Activities 2 PAs

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too. We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• To provide a high quality service in Acute Care with appropriate evidence based guidelines and clinical governance structure.
• To contribute to the multi-disciplinary team working especially on the Acute Medical Unit to drive flow and enhance efficient acute medical care.
• To carry out medical teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required.
• To participate in the formal appraisal of junior medical staff in accordance with guidelines from the Royal College of Physicians and the Regional Postgraduate Dean.
• To contribute to postgraduate and continuing medical education activity including Continuing Professional Development.
• To participate in medical audit on a regular basis and to help develop it.
• To provide information as required from time to time for legitimate management purposes, for example to support job planning, service development etc.
• To support the Chief of Service and the Associate Director for Acute and Emergency Medicine appropriate advice with regard to the development of services.
• To work within the framework of policies and procedures relevant to Medical and Dental staff.
• To participate fully in mandatory training as required and modified by the Trust from time to time and also in annual appraisal, job planning and revalidation procedures.
• The duties will be reflected in the job plan, which will be subject to review at least once a year.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Essential criteria

• MRCP (UK)
• CCT (or equivalent) in acute internal medicine and/or general internal medicine (or within 6 months of achieving at the time of application)
• Full GMC registration

• SCE in Acute Medicine
• Other post-graduate degree MD/PhD
• FAMUS accreditation

Experience

• Essential criteria

• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of acute presentations in adult medicine
• Experience in managing acute medical patients on an AMU, ambulatory settings eg SDEC and MDT working
• Involvement in the unselected medical take
• Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of acute medicine services
• Experience in leading a multidisciplinary team

• Training in HDU/ICU medicine
• Experience of business planning
• Management experience/training
• Involvement in the design or delivery of ambulatory medicine, an AMU or augmented discharge pathways

Skills/mental ability

• Essential criteria

• Able to evaluate own clinical practice
• Able to demonstrate innovative thinking
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Ability to organise and develop service provision

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities. We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park. We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other: Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.