Consultant in General Medicine (with SI)

Job overview

The Royal Surrey is one of the few hospitals in the country to be rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and we are excited to invite applications to join our trust as a Consultant in General Medicine with a specialist interest!

Successful candidates will oversee a dedicated team of health professionals who provide care to general and acute medical patients on a ward consisting of 20 isolation cubicles in addition to medical outliers on two wards. Built during the pandemic, Guildford ward comprises a strong nursing and allied health professional team with advanced capabilities in managing acutely unwell patients including those requiring non-invasive ventilation. The clinical team on Guildford ward are anticipated to play a part in delivering a high quality general medical service across the division of Access and Medicine. The focus of the general medical teams will be to reduce length of stay and prolonged admissions, liaise with ITU and work closely with the site team to ensure that the right patients are in the right beds.

Interviews will take place W/C 9th November.

Main duties of the job

The Consultant will be responsible for providing cover for the medical patients on Guildford ward. The key duties and responsibilities of the post will be:

• Clinical and administrative responsibility for patients.
• Leadership of the medical staff to include development, training, recruitment, supervision and discipline of resident doctors.
• Collaboration with senior nursing staff and the specialty manager to ensure the safe and effective running of the ward.
• Supervision of medical admissions on the ward to include prompt review of new admissions and daily board rounds.
• Promoting flow through the emergency floor by helping the site team with bed allocations
• Recruitment, supervision and training of resident medical staff and allied health professionals working on the ward.
• Ensuring that resuscitation and end of life care issues are appropriately and sensitively managed.
• Development of clinical pathways that support early discharge
• Delivery of clinical audits and quality improvement relevant to the needs of the department.
• Recruitment and active involvement with clinical trials.
• Participate on the GIM on call rota.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are committed to multi-professional development and the job will entail a negotiable number of programmed activities to be delivered in an area of your interest across the Division of Access and Medicine. Areas encouraged are Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC), enhanced level and remote care, cardiology, gastroenterology, academic medicine, undergraduate education, research and development and quality improvement. We support part-time, and flexible working patterns and are embedding self-rostering to maximize autonomy and well-being.

Please refer to the advert and attached job description for full details of the role, job plan and person specification.

Please note - although the Job Plan is part time (8.5 PA), those interested in working full time will be considered and need not be deterred from applying.

Applicant requirements

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.