Consultant in Acute Medicine

Job overview

The post holder will join a successful and dynamic team that have helped transform Acute Medical Care at Royal Derby Hospital. Our vision is ‘to be a pinnacle for best practice and patient care across our emergency and urgent care pathways. We will integrate our services with the wider urgent care network to ensure patients receive the best care possible at the right time and in the right place’.

The Royal Derby Hospital has secured significant funding to reconfigure and redesign our Emergency, Urgent and Acute Care Services to ensure we have the facilities and pathways to meet the changing needs of our patients. We are expanding and redesigning our emergency department, collocating same day emergency care service, urgent care and primary care services. Our assessment units will be expanded and we will provide focus to frailty and mental health pathways. In this context we continue to aim to add further Consultants to our team.

Main duties of the job

Your clinical role will be  working across the Medical Assessment Unit (MAU) Medical Same Day Emergency Care (mSDEC) and provide in reach to our Emergency Department (ED) at the  Royal Derby Hospital . You will work 1:6 weekends.

MAU is a 57 bedded unit. When working in MAU for the day you will be one of a team of 3 Acute Medicine Consultants contributing direct clinical care to patients alongside the Junior doctor/ assistant clinical practitioner (ACP) workforce and ward MDT. We also work closely with all our medical specialities who provide Speciality Consultant In reach/Ward rounds 1-2 times per day, 7 days per week.

Our improved Same Day Emergency Care Centre was relaunched at a new on-site location during 2018 and has a dedicated nursing team and a junior doctor workforce. As part of rota commitments you will contribute to Consultant shifts in SDEC.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are looking for ambitious physicians, who want to transform clinical services, provide stimulating teaching, develop shop-floor research and deliver high quality care within the field of urgent care.

You will be given support by working with dedicated ward-based multidisciplinary support teams, all based in our modern hospital facilities. Our Trust is committed to "Getting it Right, First Time" as shown with the expansion of our medical teams, which have helped the Trust to gain national recognition for urgent care services.

The post will be based at The Royal Derby Hospital, Derby but as a newly merged organisation, we expect flexibility to be able to work across all sites of University Hospitals of Derby and Burton Foundation Trust should the need arise.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust will consider relocation expenses and enhanced Terms and Conditions on appointment, depending on previous experience.