Consultant Physician in Acute Medicine

Job title:

Consultant Physician in Acute Medicine

Company:

British Medical Journal

Job description

Depending on experience £105,504 to £139,882 per annum dependent on experience Closing date 22 Apr 2025View more categoriesView less categoriesProfession , Grade Contract Type HoursSave jobClick to add the job to your shortlistYou need to or to save a job.Job DetailsApplications are invited for a Consultant in the Acute Medicine Department at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity for the successful motivated and enthusiastic candidate to join the team based at Leighton Hospital in Crewe.This role comes with the opportunity for the successful applicant (should they wish) to spend two sessions to further develop interests in other areas which may include another specialty service or alternatively medical education, clinical governance and quality improvement, clinical leadership or research.The successful candidate will be highly motivated with a passion to improve the quality of patient care. They will have strong communication skills and be an excellent ‘Team Player’. They will value training and education.Main duties of the jobThe successful candidate will be based at Leighton Hospital, Crewe in the Acute Medical Unit, Division of Medicine and Emergency Care.The post is offered on a fixed term, full time, or job share basis the job plan being intended for a full-time appointment with an opportunity to modify this if the post is offered on any other basis.The successful applicant must have full registration with the GMC and continue to hold a License to Practice. Applicants must hold or be within 6 months of Specialist Registration or a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in Acute Medicine or General Internal Medicine with a specialist interest.The vision of the Acute Medical Unit is to consistently provide a caring, professional, high quality, efficient clinical service for patients who present with an acute medical condition to secondary care from the community, Emergency Department or following a clinic attendance.Our values, alongside professional codes of conduct, will empower staff to deliver a high quality service.About usMid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children’s health.The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.The Trust is one of a small number of hospitals nationally confirmed to be in an early phase of the national New Hospital Build Programme. This will result in the acute hospital on the Leighton site being completely rebuilt and operational by 2031, providing fantastic opportunities for development and transformation of elective and acute surgical services at MCHFT.Job description
Job responsibilities8 PAs (DCC): which includes 1.5 PAs to cover scheduled on-call work (identified as on-call on job plan timetable). 6-8 DCC dependent if specialty interest work of the successful applicant is considered to be DCC or SPA.1 core SPA PA per week to support appraisal and revalidation. A second SPA is routinely offered to support service development, quality improvement and/or delivery of educational activity. The post also provides an opportunity for the successful candidate to undertake up to 2 sessions in an additional clinical or non clinical role of special interest to the candidate.Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Full GMC Registration
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register via: CCT (proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview) CESR or European Community Rights
• MBBS or equivalent

Desirable

• Additional higher degrees relevant to this post
• Other postgraduate qualification e.g. MD, PhD
• Qualified educational supervisor

Experience
Essential

• Extensive experience in Acute / General Internal Medicine

Desirable

• Other specialties will be considered but especially desirable would be Respiratory Medicine, Care of the Elderly/Frailty, Diabetes or Rheumatology

Ability
Essential

• Recognised ability to work within, and provide leadership to, the multidisciplinary team
• Effective communicator
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Flexibility of approach
• Commitment to clinical risk management and implementation of clinical governance
• Effective team leader

Audit and Research
Desirable

• Research leading to MD or PhD

Teaching and Education
Essential

• Evidence to allow accreditation as a Consultant Clinical Supervisor for trainee doctors with the GMC
• Experience and interest in teaching both junior medical and non-medical staff
• Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development and lifelong learning
• Commitment to teaching
• Membership of Society of Acute Medicine

Desirable

• Evidence to allow accreditation as a Consultant Educational Supervisor for trainee doctors with the GMC
• Recognised teaching skills course
• Special interest in role development and staff training
• Membership of relevant medical associations/learned societies

Other
Essential

• Ability to communicate effectively with patients and staff at all levels of the organisation
• Meets professional health requirements (in line with GMC standards in Good Medical Practice)

412-MED-7060779CompanyWe put you first: Involving you in decisions which affect you and making time to learn from what you tell us to get it right for patients and staff every time.We strive for more: Setting ourselves high standards, encouraging innovation and sharing best practice to be the best we can be and deliver great quality, safe care.We respect you: Embracing diversity and treating
everyone with understanding, dignity and compassion to support and care for the people we work with and for.We work together: With colleagues and partners to go beyond traditional boundaries and deliver care which truly benefits our patients and meets their individual needs and wants.About UsMid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008. We have 500 hospital beds and employ more than 5,000 members of staff, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children’s health. The Trust is also responsible for the provision of a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal, working in partnership with local GPs and Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. During the pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its ‘Be Safe Be EquiPPEd’ campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE. We were also credited nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives. At Mid Cheshire, we really value our staff and appreciate that to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleaguesShare this jobSave jobClick to add the job to your shortlistYou need to or to save a job.Get job alertsCreate a job alert and receive personalised job recommendations straight to your inbox.Similar jobs

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Expected salary

£105504 – 139882 per year

Location

Crewe, Cheshire

Job date

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 01:39:13 GMT

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