NHS Locum Consultant Acute Medicine

Job description

• Put the patient first by being Compassionate, helpful, caring, respectful and patient
• Always taking opportunities to improve, encouraging excellence
• Work as one team - communicate, collaborate and share
• Respect each other by being polite, pleasant and listening

• Wide experience in all aspects of General (Internal) Medicine.
• CCT in either General (Internal) Medicine (GIM) or Acute Internal Medicine (AIM), +/- a medical speciality

• Experience in setting up an ambulatory care service or in other relevant medical specialities
• Completion of courses relevant to chosen specialties. Such as eSCE in acute Internal Medicine
• Ability to develop a specialty or subspecialty interest within the field of Acute Internal Medicine, which complements those of the current team.
• FAMUS supervisor
• ALS instructor

• High standard of clinical skill and expertise in the specialty
• Able to contribute to the full range of skills required for the on call rota for the specialty
• Comprehensive clinical experience in general medicine and geriatric medicine.
• Good working knowledge of the theory and practice of Geriatric Medicine

• Good all-round experience in General Internal Medicine/Care of the Elderly and/or other Medicine Specialties.
• Special interest and expertise in the subspecialty of geriatrics
• Experience in Frailty & Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment

• Audit/Research
• Has attended a recognised management training event or will have such training on completion of CCT/CCST
• Supervision of post graduate trainees
• Personal time management skills
• Clinical Governance
• Ability to organise outpatient waiting lists

• Familiarity within issues of service organisation and development

• Experience of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate trainees
• Ability to teach clinical skills

• Experience of supervising junior doctors
• Experience of teaching Lay groups and other staff groups
• Ability to supervise postgraduate research

• Ability to contribute to change management
• Ability to apply research findings to clinical problems
• Ability to critically review research

• Publications in peer review journals
• Ability to lead clinical research projects

• Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements.

• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to work in partnership to deliver a patient centred service
• Demonstrate an understanding and willingness to embrace user involvement
• Good interpersonal skills
• Enquiring, critical approach to work
• Ability to communicate with patients and relatives
• Commitment to continuing professional development
• Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities to local, regional or national levels
• Willingness to work with consultant colleagues and management to maintain and develop a comprehensive service
• Able to make own arrangements for travel between working sites
• Commitment to Specialty development

• Full driving licence

• The healthcare provider of first choice for the people of East Sussex.

• Deliver better health outcomes and an excellent experience for everyone we provide with healthcare services.

• Improve quality and clinical outcomes by ensuring that safe patient care is our highest priority.
• Play a leading role in local partnerships to meet the needs of our local population and improve and enhance patients' experiences.
• Use our resources efficiently and effectively for the benefit of our patients and their care to ensure our services are clinically, operationally and financially sustainable.

• Safe
• Effective
• Caring
• Responsive and
• Well led