Consultant Physician in Acute Medicine

Job overview

Applications are invited for a Consultant in the Acute Medicine Department at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity for the successful motivated and enthusiastic candidate to join the team based at Leighton Hospital in Crewe.

This role comes with the opportunity for the successful applicant (should they wish) to spend two sessions to further develop interests in other areas which may include another specialty service or alternatively medical education, clinical governance and quality improvement, clinical leadership or research.

The successful candidate will be highly motivated with a passion to improve the quality of patient care.  They will have strong communication skills and be an excellent ‘Team Player’. They will value training and education.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be based at Leighton Hospital, Crewe in the Acute Medical Unit, Division of Medicine and Emergency Care.

The post is offered on a fixed term, full time, or job share basis; the job plan being intended for a full-time appointment with an opportunity to modify this if the post is offered on any other basis.

The successful applicant must have full registration with the GMC and continue to hold a License to Practice. Applicants must hold or be within 6 months of Specialist Registration or a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in Acute Medicine or General Internal Medicine with a specialist interest.

The vision of the Acute Medical Unit is to consistently provide a caring, professional, high quality, efficient clinical service for patients who present with an acute medical condition to secondary care from the community, Emergency Department or following a clinic attendance.

Our values, alongside professional codes of conduct, will empower staff to deliver a high quality service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

8 PAs (DCC): which includes 1.5 PAs to cover scheduled on-call work (identified as on-call on job plan timetable). 6-8 DCC dependent if specialty interest work of the successful applicant is considered to be DCC or SPA.

1 core SPA PA per week  to support appraisal and revalidation. A second SPA is routinely offered to support service development, quality improvement and/or delivery of educational activity. The post also provides an opportunity for the successful candidate to undertake up to 2 sessions in an additional clinical or non clinical role of special interest to the candidate.