Locum Consultant in Acute Medicine - London, United Kingdom - Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Acute Medicine service at Charing Crosshospital provides a consultant lead service for all patients admitted under Acute Medicine 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The ward areas covered by Acute Medicine are an Acute Medicine Unit (AMU), an Acute Respiratory Unit (ARU) and an Acute Assessment Unit (AAU).

The Acute Medicine service at Charing Cross Hospital works closely with the Emergency Department and with Specialty Medicine services. The AAU has a fast turnover of patients; our usual length of stay is around 1.5 days.

This is due to a consultant lead service with twice daily consultant input into patient care, great support from imaging and diagnostics, multidisciplinary approach to patient care (delivered by the OPAL team) and an excellent pharmacy team across Acute Medicine.

In addition there is daily input from a consultant lead cardiology team and in reach from other specialties (gastroenterology, neurology, infectious diseases, endocrinology, psychiatry, etc) for patients who require specialist input.

Admission rates to Medicine from the Emergency Department can vary quite significantly with the seasons.

The post holder is expected to help deliver consultant lead care to all patients managed by the Acute Medicine team regardless of their location.

The care of medical patients outlying on non-medical wards during the winter months is shared between Acute and Specialist Medicine.

A formal job plan will be agreed between the appointee and divisional director, on behalf of the medical Director, this is not designed to be exhaustive.

The post holder and divisional director/ chief of service will review the job plan annually in line with the provisions in schedule 3 of the terms and conditions.

Either may propose amendment of the job plan.

Programmed activities (PA's)

For a whole-time contract: A total of 10 PAs

Supporting Professional Activities: 2 PAs per week (including audit, clinical governance, CPD, teaching, research, educational supervision of junior staff and CPD)

Outline timetable

We have adopted a biddable rota within Acute Medicine at Charing Cross hospital. This enables the holder of the post to bid for shifts. This reduces the need to swap shifts in the future and the need to cancel speciality clinics.

It also supports part time and flexible working within the department The rota is split into two parts; May to October and November to May.

In the two years that we have used the bidding rota, all of the shifts requested are honoured. Any weekend work selected on the bidding rota will automatically reduce their commitment to weekday working.

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme.

Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We encourage staff to have the Covid vaccination to protect themselves, patients, other colleagues as well as the wider community.

Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and control procedures within the Trust such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location.

As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.

The post holder will work closely with other members of the team to ensure high quality acute and specialist medical services within the strategic framework agreed by the team.

They will work closely with the appropriate clinical management teams.

Provide high quality care to patients inAcute Medicine

The post holder must be medically qualified

To develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post.
To ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their view
Research, teaching and training
Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trust's translational research portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of research governance.
To provide high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions as required by clinical director.
Performance management
To work with medical, nursing and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:
Clinical efficiency e.g. LOS reductions, reducing cancelled operations and DNA rates.
Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing readmission rates
Financial management e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improv