Position: Permanent
Location: Swindon
Salary: £105k to £139k (Depending on Exp), (10 PA’s)
This post attracts a relocation allowance of up to £8k
- Study / Professional Leave (30 days over a 3-year cycle)
- Access to shared secretarial support – 37.5 hours / week.
- Shared office space
- Library
- Education facilities/ post grad centre
This role is a replacement role within the department of Acute Medicine. As a Trust, our client places high importance on staff wellbeing, you will be offered a wide variety of support to help you maintain your wellbeing and to help colleagues maintain theirs. The Trusts Health and Wellbeing team has won a National Award during 2020 for the work they have done locally.
On joining the department, you will become part of a well-established, friendly team and will help us continue to drive forward improvements in the service that we provide to our patients. As a senior member of the team, you will become a key part in the delivery of training and supervision to our junior colleagues. As a Trust, we place high importance on staff wellbeing, you will be offered a wide variety of support to help you maintain your wellbeing and to help colleagues maintain theirs.
The Acute Medicine department has a capacity of 72 beds.
Clinical Duties:
- Multidisciplinary team working is key component of the working within the Trust and involves regular MDT discussions with colleagues.
- Providing evidence-based care for patients in a multidisciplinary setting.
- Continuing responsibility for the care of patients in your charge, including all administrative duties associated with patient care (with secretarial support)
- Development of subspecialty interests that fit in with Division needs and the strategic
- direction of the Trust.
- Responsibilities for carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation duties are
- required, and for contributing to undergraduate and post-graduate and continuing medical
- education activity.
- Participation in clinical audit and in continuing medical education.
- Conducting suitable duties in cases of emergencies and unforeseen circumstances.
- The post holder will participate in an out of hours consultant rota, detailed within the job
- plan section Consultants allocated daily to each area as above
- Principle responsibility Post Take ward round in all areas
- Post take ward round in Emergency Department for Medically referred patients
- Consultants rotate senior support – Physician of Day.
- To support the Clinical Lead in policy and strategy development as a senior member of the Divisional Management Team.
- To contribute to the leadership and development of Services under the direction of the Clinical Lead and Associate Medical Director and in line with the Trust’s business plans. The post holder will ensure effective communication and involvement of staff across the Division including support to the Divisional Director to achieve their objectives
Salary & Conditions of service
- The appointment is made subject to the national Terms and Conditions for Consultants.
- All participants of on call rotas are required to be able to attend the hospital within 30 minutes when on call.
- Consultants are expected to provide cover for each other during annual leave, study leave and sick leave, including supervision of the junior staff, supporting them in patient management.
- All Trust employees are expected to abide by local Trust policies
- Due to the nature of the work in these posts, they are exempt from the provision of section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, by virtue of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exemption Order 1975). Applicants are therefore not entitled to withhold information about convictions, including those, which, for other purposes are “spent”, under the provisions of the Act, and are required to disclose convictions, including those pending, to the Trust.
- The appointments are subject to standard pre-employment checks including references and a satisfactory medical examination
- The post holders will have a broad base of training in Acute and/or General Medicine and must hold full registration with the General Medical Council
Requirements
- Fully registered with the GMC
- MRCP (UK) or equivalent
- Entry on the Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCT at interview
- Clinical training/experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT
- Expertise in full range of medical conditions
- Ability to lead a multi-professional team and take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
- Sub-speciality interests will be supported
- Ability to teach clinical skills to trainees and multi-d Interest in leading multi-professional education Publications in peer reviewed journals
- Ability to supervise post-graduate research
Apply below or call us on 020 348 6070
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