Job summary
Job Title: Consultant Acute Medicine
Division: Medicine and Emergency Care Division
Care Group: Emergency and Acute
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
Interview Date: TBC
We are recruiting for an Consultant in Acute Medicinewho shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
One of your three references should be from the Medical Director / Chief Medical Officer of your most recent NHS employer (or their nominated deputy), or equivalent for applicants from non NHS posts. For applicants who are still in a training post, or have completed training within the past year and have not worked in a non-training NHS role since then, a reference from EACH of your two most recent Educational Supervisors can be substituted.
Main duties of the job
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
About us
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
The NHS are striving towards "we work flexibly" as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring effective and high quality care is provided to patients in a timely manner, in conjunction with colleagues in the Emergency Department, AAUs and Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC for increasing the acute consultant presence and ambulatory care options. The postholder will be a clinical leader responsible for shaping services developments, improving quality and safety and directly managing junior doctors within the wider multi-disciplinary team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring effective and high quality care is provided to patients in a timely manner, in conjunction with colleagues in the Emergency Department, AAUs and Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC for increasing the acute consultant presence and ambulatory care options. The postholder will be a clinical leader responsible for shaping services developments, improving quality and safety and directly managing junior doctors within the wider multi-disciplinary team.
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Full GMC Registration with a licence to practice
- Full MRCP
- CCT/CESR in Acute/General Medicine. Must be on the GMC specialist register or will be within next 6 months.
Knowledge
Essential
- Clinical Governance principles
Experience
Essential
- General training in Acute / General Medicine to specialist level or equivalent
- Experience of teaching doctors-in training and undergraduates
- Experience of clinical audit
- Experience in working in an SDEC
Value Based Question
Essential
- How would you ensure you represent MFT in a positive way?
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Full GMC Registration with a licence to practice
- Full MRCP
- CCT/CESR in Acute/General Medicine. Must be on the GMC specialist register or will be within next 6 months.
Knowledge
Essential
- Clinical Governance principles
Experience
Essential
- General training in Acute / General Medicine to specialist level or equivalent
- Experience of teaching doctors-in training and undergraduates
- Experience of clinical audit
- Experience in working in an SDEC
Value Based Question
Essential
- How would you ensure you represent MFT in a positive way?
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
