Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine + £30k Bonus

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities 

Clinical 

• Leading the multidisciplinary team that undertakes assessments for admissions to the service within our partner acute hospital
• Providing outstanding, outcome based rehabilitation care
• Leading the multidisciplinary team in the care and treatment of our patients, including weekly ward round review
• Attend family meetings, case review meetings and discharge planning meetings as required
• Practise evidence-based care through national standards and guidelines
• Provide supervision to their allocated junior doctor
• Prepare for and participate in external reviews (CQC, Quality Network reviews); liaison with NHSE and participation in local networks and pathways

Management

• Attendance, and contribution to, the Active Care Group Neuro clinical governance meeting.
• Participate in service development, through research, innovation and local audit.
• Continue strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, particularly our partners in the NHS
• Supervision and support of the site based junior doctor.
• Engagement in National Networks
• Ongoing personal development through CPD and annual appraisal (and adhering to the GMC’s “Good Medical Practice”

+ / - Medical Director Role

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• A key member of the site based Senior Management Team (including the Hospital Director and Matron)
• Co-chairing (with Hospital Director) site based clinical governance – focus on quality assurance; thematic review of incidents, safeguarding, clinical model delivery, supervision and training, as well as a focus on reducing restrictive practices.
• Pharmacy and Medical Management – in conjunction with Ashton’s Pharmacy; reviewing assurance processes around engagement from clinical teams with the pharmacy team
• Chair the local site based Medical Advisory Committee
• Develop a CPD programme at site for multi-professionals
• External facing engagement with CQC, local authority and the Provider Collaborative
• Medical recruitment, supervision and training and development
• Management of the out of hours medical on-call rota

Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications

• Full registration with GMC with licence to practice
• MRCP (Required)
• CCT in Rehabilitation Medicine (Required)
• Working within an inpatient rehabilitation setting treating those with neurological or brain injury (Desirable)
• Evidenced based practice
• Confidence in engaging internal and external stakeholders
• Patient centred, outcomes-based care

Working Environment

• Requirement for 37.5 hours a week (full time)
• Junior doctor support
• Site based clinical governance and Medical Advisory Committee Meeting
• Opportunity to develop leadership skills through the existing Group wide committee meetings (e.g. Research and Development and Drugs and Therapeutics Committee)

What to look forward to

• A salary of £150,000 - £160,000 plus £30k Welcome Bonus for the Medical Director position
• Medical indemnity paid by Active Care Group
• Annual leave of 32 days (plus bank holidays) pro-rata for equivalent service
• Birthday off
• Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
• Active Reward App giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop
• Free 24 hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline &  App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice
• A Nest Personal Pension account
• Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials – like going to the dentist or opticians
• We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1000 by recommending someone you know
• ……and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Full registration with GMC with licence to practice
• MRCP (Required)
• CCT in Rehabilitation Medicine (Required)

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Active Care Group

Address

FRENCHAY BRAIN INJURY REHABILITATION CENTRE

Bristol

Somerset

BS16 2UU

Employer's website

https://activecaregroup.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)