Job Description
Main area Acute Medicine Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Locum: 12 months Hours 10 sessions per week (Full Time - 10 PAs per week) Job ref 337-MS-1508-OK
Employer London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Northwick Park Hospital Town London Salary £93,666 - £126,281 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 26/05/2024 23:59
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Find out more about our Trust and why you should join us#WeAreLNWH
Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put “Quality at our HEART”. Find out more about our ambitious strategy
We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.
Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.
- H onesty
- A ccountability
- T eamwork
These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.
LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
Locum Consultant in Acute Medicine (EH)
This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the largest and most successful integrated care NHS Trust’s in the UK, with a team of 9,000 dedicated staff. We serve a wonderfully diverse population of over a million people in North west London and across the boroughs of Brent, Harrow, and Ealing.
As part of the restructuring of acute medical services at Ealing we are looking for candidates to join our team. Acute Medicine has a dynamic and enthusiastic team of acute physicians based at Ealing. The department has a well-deserved reputation for excellence in teaching and training.
The Acute Medical Unit is a 30-bedded ward. Two acute consultants are based on the ward during normal working hours. This post holder, as well as colleagues from acute medicine and the Integrated Medicine Division support the team by supervising the acute medical take, The Ealing medical take is approximately 35-40 per day. This postholder will have a two PA commitment to the on-call acute medical take.
The Ealing Medical SDEC unit is co-located with the Acute Frailty Service. The department is now seeing upwards of 200 patients per week, approximately 40% of the medical take.
We recognize that our Acute Medicine Service must continue to evolve to meet the needs of our local community. We welcome applications from individuals who seek to innovate and introduce best practice.
Main duties of the job
As an Acute Consultant you will be expected to participate fully in the provision of acute medicine services, including clinical governance, service development, teaching, and research. You should have experience in Acute/General Medicine and are required to be on the Specialist Register (AIM or GIM) within 6 months of confirmed entry from the date of interview.
Candidates who are interested in sessions in other Medical Specialties are also encouraged.
This is a full-time 10 PA post with two DCC to the acute on-call rota, however applications from candidates wishing to work less than full time are also welcomed. The post is predominately based at Ealing with cross site working at Northwick Park as part of the role at a future date.
All newly appointed consultants will be offered to join the Trust’s consultant induction programme.
More details in the Job Description.
Working for our organisation
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the largest integrated care Trusts in the country bringing together hospital and community services across the boroughs of Brent, Harrow and Ealing. Our 9,000 staff, including 1,300 doctors and 4,000 nurses and serves a diverse population of approximately 850,000.The Trust was established in October 2014 following the merger of The North West London Hospitals NHS Trust and Ealing Hospital NHS Trust and has an annual budget of over £640 million.
This is a pivotal time for the Trust as we pursue a transformational programme of activity to improve the way healthcare is delivered across the acute and community settings in North West London. To evolve as an organisation, we must create an identity and culture that will support the ambitions we have for our services ‘to provide excellent clinical care in the right setting by being compassionate, responsive and innovative.’
During this exciting period of opportunity and change, we have a clear plan to address our challenges and with the commitment of our teams we are making significant progress.
We continue to lead the way in a number of clinical services. Examples of excellence can be seen in our stroke service which is rated the best in the country and at St.Mark’s Hospital, an internationally renowned specialist centre for colorectal diseases. We are also a leading provider in undergraduate and postgraduate medical training and education.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details about this post, roles and responsibilities, please refer to the job description
Person specification
Qualifications
- CCT in General Internal Medicine (or expected within six months of interview)
- MRCP or equivalent
- ALS certificate (active)
- CCT in Acute Medicine (or expected within six months of interview)
- Experience of High Dependency and Intensive Care Medicine
Registration
- Full GMC Registration
Knowledge & Expertise
- Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCT in Acute and General Internal Medicine.
- Clinical training, experience and leadership in High Dependency Unit environment
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of complex acute medicine patients
- Experience of working in a Medical/Acute Assessment Unit
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the management of acute medical emergencies
- Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment
- Clinical training and experience in intensive care medicine
Teaching
- Experience in undergraduate clinical teaching
- Ability to teach clinical skills to medical and nursing staff and other disciplines
- Training in medical education including work based assessments, educational supervision and appraisal
Management and Audit
- An understanding of the current NHS environment, particularly in relation to reforms, initiatives and issues
- An understanding of challenges to LNWH NHS Trust and strategic objectives
- Understanding of the importance of audit
- Management course
- Record of relevant audits
Research & publications
- Experience in research and potential to develop and execute clinical research projects
- Relevant research publications in peer-reviewed journals
Personal skills
- Enjoys busy working environment and working in a team
- Ability to communicate fluently in English.
- A compassionate approach to patients
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively
- Ability to plan strategically, execute tasks and to exercise sound judgment when faced with conflicting pressures
- Ability to motivate and develop the multi-disciplinary team, balancing departmental and personal objectives
- Ability to engage in and lead change management.
- Has demonstrated qualities of team leadership
- Proven ability to lead a team in an acute assessment/high dependency unit setting
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We promote the wellbeing and safety of all our patients and carers by acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately, according to the standards determined by our policy and procedures. All posts working with vulnerable groups will be subject to an enhanced criminal records check upon appointment and staff will need to give their consent for the Trust to receive regular updates on their criminal records status throughout their employment.
Due to the high volumes of applications we receive for certain posts, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.After the closing date we strongly advise you check the email account which is registered. If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.
Our employment checking processes require that all shortlisted applicants provide the contact details of their current HR Department. If shortlisted you will be sent an email reminder to present the contact details of your HR Department at the interview.
Please note the Trust uses identity checking software for verifying the authenticity of identity documents provided by candidates.
As part of our commitment to the Equality and Diversity at LNWUH, we are encouraging applications from BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) candidates as we seek to ensure our workforce structures are representative of the diversity of the communities we serve.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Name Sarah Ingham Job title General Manger Email address sarah.ingham1@nhs.net Telephone number 07876590703 Additional information
Sarah Ingham, General Manager on 07876590703 or via email at sarah.ingham1@nhs.net
Dr Aakah Pandya , Clinical Director in Acute Medicine on aakash.pandya@nhs.net
#J-18808-Ljbffr