Consultant in Acute Medicine

5 days ago


Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Please see job description and proposed timetable atatched. Consultants in Acute Medicine Applications are invited for the new post of Consultant in Acute Medicine in the Acute Medical Unit on either a full-time or part-time basis at the West Suffolk Hospital. Duties & responsibilities of the post This is a new 10 PA Consultant post, maintaining the complement of 5 WTE Consultants within the AMU. Responsibilities include ward rounds on the short stay ward, and review of patients within the Acute Assessment Unit, Ambulatory Emergency Care (SDEC) and DVT services.

The shift patterns include 09:00hrs until 17.00hrs and an evening shift 1: 7.5 from 13:00 until 21:00. There are protected shifts for administration and SPA time (1.5PAs). At weekends, the morning Post Take Ward Round will be covered by two of the Adult Medicine/Care of the Elderly Consultants from 8.30 AM. AMU Consultants start at 1PM till 9 PM and will be responsible for all the new admissions on that day.

The Trust delivers services to patients seven days a week and aims to provide equality of treatment and outcome regardless of the day of the week. To meet these aims and changing service requirements, the Trust may need you either to work temporarily outside of your core hours or to permanently change your core working days and hours. The Trust will give you reasonable notice, where possible, of temporary changes to your days or hours of work and will consult with you and/or your staff representatives about substantial permanent changes, but ultimately, these are changes which may be required of you. Timetable (see job description attached for more details) A job plan will be agreed with the Clinical Director in the first instance and approved by the Executive Medical Director/General Manager on behalf of the Chief Executive.

The Trust delivers services to patients seven days a week and aims to provide equality of treatment and outcome regardless of the day of the week. To meet these aims and changing service requirements, the Trust may need you either to work temporarily outside of your core hours or to permanently change your core working days and hours. The Trust will give you reasonable notice, where possible, of temporary changes to your days or hours of work and will consult with you and/or your staff representatives about substantial permanent changes, but ultimately, these are changes which may be required of you. Mentoring The new appointee will be supported and mentored for the first six months of the post it will be provided by one of the consultants in the department, depending on the appointees choice.



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