Main area: Acute Medicine
Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week (Weekend working to be agreed as part of a rota system)
Job ref: 331-L1270224-C
Site: Royal Lancaster Infirmary
Town: Lancaster
Salary: £93,666 - £126,281 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/09/2024 23:59
Job overview
The Acute Medicine Unit (& SDEC) at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary prides itself as a Centre of Diagnostic Excellence. Patients are managed effectively and efficiently due to the ethos of the team and the presence of senior clinical decision makers throughout the day.
This post offers the successful candidate an opportunity to contribute to the further development of a well-established service. The post will suit candidates who are passionate about diagnostic accuracy, are motivated to partake in an acute service, and can make sound clinical decisions.
We stream medical patients directly into our SDEC, from Primary Care, ambulance providers, and the Emergency Department. The successful candidate will provide support/advice and guidance to the Medical SDEC team, alongside their Acute Medical Unit duties.
Working hours: 10PAs divided into 8.5 PA DCC and 1.5 SPA. 1 additional PA will be provided for on call and supplement. Additional roles can be negotiated in addition to basic PA’s.
Main duties of the job
The Acute Medicine team comprises a Consultant led team covering 39 Acute Medical Unit beds (3 side rooms) and an adjoining Medical SDEC.
The successful candidate will:
- Be dedicated to hands-on involvement with medical admissions to the Acute Medicine Unit focusing on timely assessment, management, and discharge
- Supervise junior doctors, ANPs & nurse consultants seeing patients in our medical SDEC & on AMU
- Supervise & co-ordinate junior doctors on AMU
- Teach & train undergraduate medical students & junior doctors
- Provide leadership & work as part of our team
- Be part of the on-call team
Person specification
Education and qualifications
- Full registration with the General Medical Council (with a licence to practice)
- Current MRCP(UK) qualification, or equivalent
- Certificate of Completion in Specialist Training (CCT) or within 6 months of completion of training at the time of interview
- Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR), or European Community Rights
- Substantial (5 years+) Acute Internal Medical experience
- Specialty Certificate Examinations in Acute Internal Medicine
The Behavioural Standards Framework
Everybody’s responsibility in everything we do.
PLEASE NOTE THAT SHORTLISTED APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED BY EMAIL.
The trust promotes flexible working opportunities wherever possible to enable staff to balance their work and home life. We are committed to Equal Opportunities and aim to be Effortlessly Inclusive.
The trust operates a No Smoking Policy.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our Person Specification will be shortlisted for Interview.
We reserve the right to close a job advert early where sufficient applications have been received.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Contact: Richard Vallely, Clinical Service Manager, , 07825175792
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