Job summary
Times are changing in
Worcestershire. With our ageing population, we recognise the importance of
developing front-door frailty services that our responsive to the needs of our
patients. We are looking for passionate and committed clinicians to work within
our Acute Medicine team in improving how we look after older people within the
first 72 hours of their journey. Our goal is to support people in returning to
their own homes as safely and as quickly as possible.
We appreciate the value, expertise
and importance that clinicians with an interest in Frailty bring to our
service. You will be joining an established team of fellow Consultant
colleagues, Trainees, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and Nursing staff in
supporting our Acute Take, AMU, and MSSU. You will also work within our new
Frailty SDEC area, alongside the Geriatrician Emergency Medicine Service
(GEMS), and be supported in developing integrated pathways with community
teams. We hope to use digital technology and innovation to enhance our links
with the countys urgent crisis response teams.
Interviews will be held on 14/07/2023
Main duties of the job
We are looking for Consultants
with an interest in Frailty and Care of the Older Person who have an interest
in developing our service, our team, and our profile on a local, regional and
national scale. We want to be the employer of choice and have an absolute
desire to help build the next generation of doctors and leaders. Joining us,
you will have the opportunity to undertake our improvement and leadership training
in partnership with the Virginia Mason Institute.
Worcestershire is a large county
that allows easy access to the calm tranquillity of the Malvern Hills and the
hustle-and-bustle of Birmingham City Centre. You could be a short distance away
from beautiful countryside for outdoor pursuits, or a short distance away from
dining at Michelin-starred restaurants or visiting the many theatres, museums
and music venues of Birmingham.
Nearby towns such as Bromsgrove
have schools rated as being Outstanding by Ofsted for those who are already
raising young families, or those who are just about to embark on that lifelong
journey.
Worcestershire is where our
people matter our people are our patients, and the members of our teams that
look after them. Please feel free to get in touch with our Clinical Director Dr
David Brocklebank, Clinical Lead for Worcester Dr Sabs Moolla or Divisional
Director for Urgent Care Dr David Raven
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is nearly 6,800 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
- Best services for local people
- Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
- Best use of resources
- Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This job
description, together with the job plan, will be reviewed annually and agreed
with the Clinical Director and Divisional Director, on behalf of the Chief
Medical Officer, to ensure that it continually reflects the areas of work,
clinical responsibility of the post and purchaser requirements.
A suitably experienced post holder will be expected to
provide a clinical service in the Urgent Care Division to patients of
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and to General Practitioners
The post holder will be expected to contribute to the
General Internal Medicine on-call rota, subject to further discussion about
service reconfiguration. This on-call activity to be shared equally with
Consultant colleagues already in post
The successful candidate will be expected to provide
support to the Emergency Department as well as the Acute Medicine directorate
in order to ensure timely appropriate care and patient flow through the
hospital
The post holder will develop close collaborative links
with Clinicians working in other speciality teams and work to develop
services to patients to the highest standards, according to departmental
protocols and Trust guidance
To facilitate effective quality assurance, critical
review and audit, and to ensure that services comply with national standards
and guidance
Take part in departmental and multi-disciplinary quality
improvement work, in alignment with the Trusts 4ward Single Improvement
Methodology
Attend cross-county meetings either in person or via a
digital platform
The Trust would
expect a consultant whilst undertaking on-call duties to attend the hospital
site to review patients when clinically necessary. The consultant on-call
must be prepared to attend willingly whenever requested to do so by a member
of their medical and nursing team
The post-holder, whilst undertaking weekend on call
duties, will attend the hospital to undertake patient reviews
The post holder will be expected to contribute to the
supervision and education of doctors in training and allied health
professionals working in the Acute Medicine team.
A successful applicant will participate in the Trusts
job planning process and annual appraisal, as described by the DoH, leading
to revalidation
The post holder will record any absence from the Trust
such as annual leave, professional leave, study leave and other leave and
make this available at their job plan review.
Provision of cross-cover for periods of annual and study
leave
Participation in regular clinical meetings, postgraduate
activities and maintain continuing medical education in accordance with the
requirements of the relevant Royal College and General Medical Council. The
post holder will ensure that their own practice is up to date and they
support the principles of revalidation by the GMC
Job description
Job responsibilities
This job
description, together with the job plan, will be reviewed annually and agreed
with the Clinical Director and Divisional Director, on behalf of the Chief
Medical Officer, to ensure that it continually reflects the areas of work,
clinical responsibility of the post and purchaser requirements.
A suitably experienced post holder will be expected to
provide a clinical service in the Urgent Care Division to patients of
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and to General Practitioners
The post holder will be expected to contribute to the
General Internal Medicine on-call rota, subject to further discussion about
service reconfiguration. This on-call activity to be shared equally with
Consultant colleagues already in post
The successful candidate will be expected to provide
support to the Emergency Department as well as the Acute Medicine directorate
in order to ensure timely appropriate care and patient flow through the
hospital
The post holder will develop close collaborative links
with Clinicians working in other speciality teams and work to develop
services to patients to the highest standards, according to departmental
protocols and Trust guidance
To facilitate effective quality assurance, critical
review and audit, and to ensure that services comply with national standards
and guidance
Take part in departmental and multi-disciplinary quality
improvement work, in alignment with the Trusts 4ward Single Improvement
Methodology
Attend cross-county meetings either in person or via a
digital platform
The Trust would
expect a consultant whilst undertaking on-call duties to attend the hospital
site to review patients when clinically necessary. The consultant on-call
must be prepared to attend willingly whenever requested to do so by a member
of their medical and nursing team
The post-holder, whilst undertaking weekend on call
duties, will attend the hospital to undertake patient reviews
The post holder will be expected to contribute to the
supervision and education of doctors in training and allied health
professionals working in the Acute Medicine team.
A successful applicant will participate in the Trusts
job planning process and annual appraisal, as described by the DoH, leading
to revalidation
The post holder will record any absence from the Trust
such as annual leave, professional leave, study leave and other leave and
make this available at their job plan review.
Provision of cross-cover for periods of annual and study
leave
Participation in regular clinical meetings, postgraduate
activities and maintain continuing medical education in accordance with the
requirements of the relevant Royal College and General Medical Council. The
post holder will ensure that their own practice is up to date and they
support the principles of revalidation by the GMC
Person Specification
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to work in a team
- Enquiring, critical approach to work
- Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies
- Commitment to Continuing medical education
Desirable
- Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national levels
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC Registration with licence to practice
- Entry on Specialist Register in Acute Internal Medicine (or CCT/CESR expected within 6 months of interview date), General Medicine or equivalent Geriatric Medicine
- Success in Intercollegiate speciality examination or overseas equivalent such as MRCP
Desirable
- Higher degree
- Entry on Specialist Register in General Internal Medicine (or CCT/CESR expected within 6 months of interview date
- Additional qualification appropriate to the role
Experience
Essential
- Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT/CESR in Specialist Register in Acute Internal Medicine
- Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on range of problems both emergency and elective within speciality
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
- Expertise in subspeciality
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively
- Ability to advice on efficient and smooth running of specialist service
- Ability to organise and manage outpatient priorities
- Ability to manage and lead the acute medicine firm and multidisciplinary team
- Experience of audit management and conducting clinical audit
- Ability to teach clinical skills to medical, nursing staff and allied health professionals
- Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates
- Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
- An awareness of current speciality specific developments and initiative
Desirable
- Ability to manage and lead specialist unit
- Ability to supervise postgraduate research
- Leadership skills in education
- Publications in relevant peer reviewed journals in the last 5 years
- Evidence of having undertaken original research
Person Specification
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to work in a team
- Enquiring, critical approach to work
- Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies
- Commitment to Continuing medical education
Desirable
- Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national levels
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC Registration with licence to practice
- Entry on Specialist Register in Acute Internal Medicine (or CCT/CESR expected within 6 months of interview date), General Medicine or equivalent Geriatric Medicine
- Success in Intercollegiate speciality examination or overseas equivalent such as MRCP
Desirable
- Higher degree
- Entry on Specialist Register in General Internal Medicine (or CCT/CESR expected within 6 months of interview date
- Additional qualification appropriate to the role
Experience
Essential
- Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT/CESR in Specialist Register in Acute Internal Medicine
- Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on range of problems both emergency and elective within speciality
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
- Expertise in subspeciality
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively
- Ability to advice on efficient and smooth running of specialist service
- Ability to organise and manage outpatient priorities
- Ability to manage and lead the acute medicine firm and multidisciplinary team
- Experience of audit management and conducting clinical audit
- Ability to teach clinical skills to medical, nursing staff and allied health professionals
- Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates and postgraduates
- Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
- An awareness of current speciality specific developments and initiative
Desirable
- Ability to manage and lead specialist unit
- Ability to supervise postgraduate research
- Leadership skills in education
- Publications in relevant peer reviewed journals in the last 5 years
- Evidence of having undertaken original research
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).
