This fixed-term locum consultant post sits on the General Medical wards at University Hospitals of Derby & Burton NHS Foundation Trust, within its Assessment & Diagnostics service. The work centres on managing general medicine inpatients, leading daily board and ward rounds, and supervising junior doctors while teaching medical students. A specialist interest can be added by arrangement, though a full general medicine job plan is preferred, and the role carries weekend work and one clinic a week. Full GMC registration with a licence to practise is essential.
What the job involves
- Manage patients on the General Medical wards
- Carry out personal clinical duties as set out in the job plan, with proper delegation and training of staff
- Provide regular high-quality SIFT teaching and, with consultant colleagues, teach and train undergraduate and junior medical staff
- Supervise junior medical staff professionally
- Lead the daily MDT board round and full ward round, plus the afternoon board round and review of results and new or unstable patients
- Hold one clinic a week, which may be flexed with other clinical work such as review of general medicine outliers
- Work an annualised 8 weekends a year on the General Medical wards (09:00-15:00, Saturday and Sunday) and one bank holiday (09:00-15:00)
- Help develop the new General Medicine service model and pathways
- Take part in relevant management
- Keep up to date with and act in line with 'Duties of a Doctor' and the GMC Performance Procedures
- Implement the Trust's infection control policies
- In exceptional cases, cover additional duties for limited periods locally or at other hospitals during a major disaster or incident
What's required
Registration & licences
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practise
Experience
- Experience of audit and management
- Clinical training and experience equivalent to UK specialist registration in General Internal Medicine
- Experience managing complex multi-system disease and co-morbidity
- Experience supervising junior doctors
Nice to have
- Completed a management course for consultants
- Leadership experience
- Specialist registration in General (Internal) Medicine, or a medical specialty or clinical pharmacology, with CCT including General Medicine
- Postgraduate thesis in any aspect of clinical medicine or education
- Entry on the GMC Specialist Register, or within 6 months of CCT at interview with entry by start date, or evidence of a GMC application or CESR/Portfolio progress
- Experience providing dedicated General Medicine ward and outpatient services
- Teaching qualification
What's offered
- Development opportunities, including professional and leadership development
- Ongoing support from recruitment through to joining and beyond
- Employee assistance programme
- Discounted gym membership
- Onsite fitness classes
- Car schemes
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
