Consultant - Acute Medicine

Job overview

We are extremely excited to welcome a skilled Acute Medicine Consultant to our outstanding team at Torbay Hospital. With a focus on high-quality patient care within a collaborative, dynamic working environment, this is your chance to make a real difference in an area that offers both professional fulfilment and a wonderful quality of life.

Take this unique opportunity and benefit from an enviable annualised, in-hours rota with flexibility to support both personal development and commitments outside of work.

Supported by a truly dedicated and emotionally invested team with a collective desire to improve, develop and enjoy their time at work together, you will be joining a team that maintains patient safety, dignity and care at the centre of their ethos.

You will be responsible for the assessment, diagnosis, and management of patients with acute medical conditions, ensuring that they receive a ‘second-to-none’ standard of care from admission to discharge. You will work closely with other consultants, resident doctors, and multi-disciplinary teams to ensure patient pathways operate unhindered.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

The Acute Medicine department at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust is a dynamic department known for taking a hands-on role in service development, quality improvement, education and training.

In December 2022, we opened the doors to our brand new Acute Medical Unit (AMU) that boasts 36 assessment spaces, split across level 2 and level 3, and that houses our Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) facility. We also take responsibility for additional Acute Medicine capacity on our 24 bed EAU4 (Emergency Assessment Unit).

The team is responsible for the care of patients across these areas alongside providing an Acute Medicine in-reach service in the Emergency Department during daytime hours.

We are looking for an individual that will strive to provide:

• Highest-quality care to our patients, prioritising their safety and dignity.
• Authentic, confident leadership.
• In-depth teaching and training to under/postgraduates and to supervise our Resident and Specialty Doctors.
• Positive/active engagement in departmental governance and improvement.
• Effective liaison with all manner of operational, clinical and support teams across the service.
• Constructive participation in audit and quality assurance processes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are looking for a colleague:

• -        To provide high quality consultant delivered care to patients requiring our service, ensuring the highest standards of clinical care are met
• -        To take responsibility for the management of patients admitted on the medical take, post-take ward round (PTWR), Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) and Emergency Assessment Unit
• -        To provide teaching and training at undergraduate and postgraduate level
• -        To supervise and train the junior clinical team and our specialty doctors
• -        To be proactive in the Department’s clinical governance agenda and take on leadership roles to support continuous learning and improvement, thereby abiding by the clinical and corporate governance policies of the Trust
• -        To liaise with clinicians and managers within and outside the Department to address any issues arising that may affect the service
• -        To participate in relevant audit and quality assurance processes.

Clinical staff:  Recruitment, appointment and educational supervision including educational contracts, regular appraisal, organisation of study leave, annual leave and rotas.

Budget:  Work collaboratively with the Operational Manager, Associate Medical Director & Associate Director of Operations to manage services within allocated resource.

Communication:  This will include the responsibility for and arrangement of communication and liaison with all other medical and service departments within the Trust and other Trusts.

Teaching:  To have an active role in the resident doctor training programme.