Consultant in Acute Medicine

at  East Cheshire NHS Trust

At Macclesfield District General Hospital we are are excited to welcome a Consultant Acute Physicians to join a dynamic, expanding and forward thinking Acute Medical team. The successful applicants will join a team of 4 Consultant Acute Physicians during an exciting stage of growth and expansion for the service. With the guidance of our inspiring clinical team, this role will allow you the opportunity to enhance your skills, leadership and confidence while holding management and clinical responsibility for patients on the Medical Admissions Unit (MAU).
The new Consultant Acute Physician will join our outstanding team in the delivery of acute medical care across the Medical Admissions Unit (MAU), Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) and will support the Emergency Department staff with assessments of patients with acute medical problems. Your expertise will play a key role in leading and co-ordinating the junior medical staff to ensure that patients are assessed and admitted or discharged in line with Emergency Department targets.
Offer of dynamic rostering / flexible work spread between General Virtual Ward (GVW), SDEC.
The role outlined will be pivotal in guiding the department toward our long-term vision and strategy of providing excellent care to the local community. We offer a dynamic mix of flexible work spread between MAU, SDEC Virtual wards and ED.
Hours per week: 10 PA’s
MAU ward cover - Managing admissions and flow of between 30 - 35 patients per day.
Monday to Friday until 8pm, working as the Physician of the Day (POD) 1x weekly.
Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) cover - on call cover on Friday
Emergency department in reach
Weekend post take ward rounds.
Medical Sub-specialty interest OPD clinics
General virtual ward rounds
Play a vital role in the training, mentoring and leading of junior medical staff with the assessment and management of acutely unwell medical patients, and contribute to MRCP PACES teaching. Postgraduate medical training of foundation year doctors and speciality trainees while working towards GIRFT recommendations as well as Royal College frameworks for Acute Medicine patients.
To be able to work flexibly and provide high quality care with particular emphasis on:
Develop appropriate services to meet clinical needs utilising available resources.
Collaborative working specifically with colleagues in primary care and the community to ensure effective management of acutely unwell patients.
Education and training of medical students, doctors and professionals allied to medicine including Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP’s).
Demonstration and engagement with the principles of clinical governance.
Maintaining robust systems for effective clinical audit in the specialty and general medicine, as appropriate.
Developing services as indicated by recommendations of the Royal College of Physicians, NICE and specialist societies.
NHS Medical and Dental salaries are set at a national level. For new starters not already working to UK Medical and Dental terms and conditions of service will be appointed to the minimum paypoint. The starting salary paypoint can only be increased when there is evidence of relevant, completed years’ experience in terms of nature, type and level of role. The evidence required to increase a starting salary would be Payslips and details noted in the application form i.e. complete employment history
Please be aware that this post requires an Enhanced with Barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, the cost of which is payable by the successful candidate.
If you have lived or worked abroad for 6 months or more in the last 5 years you will need to obtain an overseas police clearance. Further information can be found on the additional information links at the bottom of the advert.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters as part of ongoing monitoring.
Please download a copy of the Job Description and Person Specification located under the Supporting documents heading to read more about the advertised role.
Please read the attached Applicant Pack prior to completing your application form to find out more information.
As part of making your application we encourage you to review the Trusts Careers webpage www.careersateastcheshire.nhs.uk for more information about working for East Cheshire NHS Trust.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race or religion. The Trust is a Disability Confident Leader and as such, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview providing they meet the minimum criteria for the post (outlined in the Person Specification).
Applicants are advised to apply early as we reserve the right to close the advert prior to the advertised closing date should we receive a large number of applications.
We look forward to receiving your application

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