Locum Consultant in Acute Internal Medicine

Job overview

LOCUM CONSULTANT IN ACUTE INTERNAL MEDICINE

St Mary’s Hospital, London

Full-time, 10 PA’s

Fixed-term, 12 months

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Locum Consultant in Acute Internal Medicine to join our acute medicine team at St Mary’s Hospital. The successful applicant will work within the Division of Medicine and will be supplementing the existing Acute Medicine Physicians. There is a close partnership working with the Emergency Medicine and same day emergency care (SDEC) teams. This is a temporary position for 12 months.

We welcome part-time and job share applications. If candidates are appointed on a part-time or job share contract, the 10 PA job plan will be amended accordingly.

Applicants must be on the GMC Register or be within six months of obtaining a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR).

Main duties of the job

This is a new post and has great potential for both leadership and service development within the urgent and emergency care and acute medicine system. When not covering Acute Medicine, the post holder will be expected to contribute to the delivery of SDEC pathways, admission avoidance schemes and facilitated discharges from the acute medical wards.

The post holder must:

• Maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties of the post
• Ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care Programmed Activities
• Ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views

The Trust supports the requirements of CME as laid down by the Royal College of Physicians and is committed to providing time and financial support for these activities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Acute Medicine service works closely with the Emergency Department (ED) and with other Specialist Medicine services. The Acute Medicine service has a fast turnover of patients; our usual length of stay is around 1.5 days, which is due to twice daily consultant input into patient care, great support from imaging and diagnostics, a multidisciplinary approach to patient care (delivered by the Frailty team) and an excellent pharmacy team. In addition, there is daily input from consultant led specialties such as gastroenterology, hepatology, frailty, respiratory, infectious diseases, endocrinology and psychiatry for patients who require further input.

The post holder is expected to help deliver consultant led 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 the different firm-based teams.

Regular teaching and training of under-graduate and post-graduate students is firmly embedded within the working routine of the Acute Medicine team and the post holder will be expected to take part in this.

A team of consultant physicians from various medical specialties take part in the Acute Medicine rota and provide daily support and specialist opinions to patients under Acute Medicine, including gastroenterology, infectious disease, respiratory, neurology, endocrinology, medicine for the elderly and other specialties.