Job summary
The department of Acute Medicine at Chelsea Westminster Hospital are looking to recruit an additional consultant to compliment the well-established and forward thinking team. The successful candidate will broaden the collective skill set and will actively contribute to, and support true multi-disciplinary working in line with the Royal College of Physicians and the Department of Health's strategy for modernising acute care within the NHS.
We have a locum position to offer for upto twelve months. This posts is based in the Department of Acute Medicine at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust. It is expected that the post-holder will actively contribute to the Trust's Acute Medicine services and support true multi-disciplinary working way in line with the Royal College of Physicians and the Department of Health's strategy for modernising acute care within the NHS.
The post-holder will undertake fixed clinical and non-clinical sessions according to an agreed timetable with other members of the Consultant Team. During clinical sessions the post holder will be responsible for the care of patients on the Enhanced Care Unit, the Acute Assessment Unit (AAU), and in the Ambulatory Emergency Care service, all with a designated team of trainee doctors, ACPs and Physician Associates.
Main duties of the job
The Acute Assessment Unit (AAU) at Chelsea Westminster Hospital is comprised of 54-beds; 9 enhanced care beds & 10 assessment spaces.
Emergency medical admissions are rapidly assessed in the Emergency Department and then if admission is required, directly transferred to the AAU for further management. All cases, unless requiring CCU or critical care, are managed on the Unit until discharged back to the community or transferred for further in-patient care to the appropriate speciality area.
Usual daily admissions are 30-35 patients a day, with additional activity now managed through our Ambulatory Emergency Care service. The unit is well staffed MDT of junior doctors, physician associates, nurses, therapists and pharmacists.
The Ambulatory Emergency Care (AEC) unit offers high quality same-day emergency care (SDEC) and is comprised of a trolley-based area for assessment and treatment; treatment chairs & rooms - alongside allocated outpatient clinic space.
About us
We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East. We have over 7,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Carefor nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We're one of the best preforming Trusts in the country. We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff say they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good'. We've also been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating for 'use of resources' by an NHS Improvement inspection.
Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children's unit at West Middlesex - in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Result Areas, Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide High Quality Care to Patients
- The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration and revalidation.
- Develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required 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.
- Adhere to the Trust Customer Service Commitment and adopt a professional approach to customer care at all times.
- Develop clinical practice through self-reflection and learning from experience, application of research into practice and active contribution within the multi-disciplinary team.
Research, Teaching and Training
- Contribute to high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions.
- To contribute to training and teaching of medical trainees, medical students, other doctors in training and other staff groups.
- Contribute to teaching and training non-Consultant postgraduate colleagues.
- Contribute to the clinical and/or educational supervision and appraisal of training grade doctors in order to ensure external accreditation of training posts.
- Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trusts translational research/audit portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of Research Governance.
- There is flexibility in the job plan to dedicate variable amounts of time to research, teaching and training depending on individual interests.
- Ensure that your mandatory training is up to date as per Trust policy.
Performance Management
Work with medical, nursing, other clinical and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:
- Clinical efficiency e.g. Length of Stay (LOS) reductions, admission on day of surgery, reducing cancelled operations and DNA rates.
- Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-admission rates.
- Financial management e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improvement programmes and participating in efforts to ensure services are provided cost effectively e.g. managing locum agency spend, monitoring and managing the drug budget to target, ensuring accuracy of clinical data for the team.
Medical Staff Management and Accountability
- Responsible for on-going assessment and regular appraisal of all doctors in training, Trust doctors and non-consultant grades as delegated by the Divisional Medical Director/Service Lead /Divisional Director of Operations.
- Adhere to Trust / department guidelines on leave, including requesting and reporting absence, and professional and study leave, and to ensure that members of staff for whom you are responsible do the same.
- Participate in team objective setting as part of the annual job planning cycle.
- Participate fully in regular departmental activities including department meetings and team building activities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Result Areas, Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide High Quality Care to Patients
- The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration and revalidation.
- Develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required 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.
- Adhere to the Trust Customer Service Commitment and adopt a professional approach to customer care at all times.
- Develop clinical practice through self-reflection and learning from experience, application of research into practice and active contribution within the multi-disciplinary team.
Research, Teaching and Training
- Contribute to high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions.
- To contribute to training and teaching of medical trainees, medical students, other doctors in training and other staff groups.
- Contribute to teaching and training non-Consultant postgraduate colleagues.
- Contribute to the clinical and/or educational supervision and appraisal of training grade doctors in order to ensure external accreditation of training posts.
- Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trusts translational research/audit portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of Research Governance.
- There is flexibility in the job plan to dedicate variable amounts of time to research, teaching and training depending on individual interests.
- Ensure that your mandatory training is up to date as per Trust policy.
Performance Management
Work with medical, nursing, other clinical and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas:
- Clinical efficiency e.g. Length of Stay (LOS) reductions, admission on day of surgery, reducing cancelled operations and DNA rates.
- Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-admission rates.
- Financial management e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improvement programmes and participating in efforts to ensure services are provided cost effectively e.g. managing locum agency spend, monitoring and managing the drug budget to target, ensuring accuracy of clinical data for the team.
Medical Staff Management and Accountability
- Responsible for on-going assessment and regular appraisal of all doctors in training, Trust doctors and non-consultant grades as delegated by the Divisional Medical Director/Service Lead /Divisional Director of Operations.
- Adhere to Trust / department guidelines on leave, including requesting and reporting absence, and professional and study leave, and to ensure that members of staff for whom you are responsible do the same.
- Participate in team objective setting as part of the annual job planning cycle.
- Participate fully in regular departmental activities including department meetings and team building activities.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC Registration and License to practice
- FCEM or equivalent
- MRCP/FRCP past record of academic achievement
- Publications in peer reviewed journals in relevant areas
Desirable
- CCT in Acute Medicine
- Higher Degree
- Additional related qualifications eg. BSc, BA
- Training/education qualification
- Level 3 Safeguarding as per intercollegiate document
Previous experience
Essential
- Significant Experience of NHS and specifically of Acute/General Internal Medicine
- Understanding of Clinical Governance and Audit.
- Under and post graduate teaching experience
Desirable
- Training in management.
- Understanding of business planning and commissioning.
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Meets good clinical / research practice standards
- Extensive knowledge of relevant Specialty
- Organisational skills
- Problem solving
- Good inter-personal and communications skills
- Computer skills and IT literacy
- Ability to apply managerial & professional theory
- Leadership and teaching
- Commitment to multidisciplinary team working
- Commitment to continuing medical education
- Ability to conduct teaching and research
- Ability to meet on call requirements
- Commitment to the goals of the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital
Desirable
- Experience at consultant level
- IT skills for word processing and data handling
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC Registration and License to practice
- FCEM or equivalent
- MRCP/FRCP past record of academic achievement
- Publications in peer reviewed journals in relevant areas
Desirable
- CCT in Acute Medicine
- Higher Degree
- Additional related qualifications eg. BSc, BA
- Training/education qualification
- Level 3 Safeguarding as per intercollegiate document
Previous experience
Essential
- Significant Experience of NHS and specifically of Acute/General Internal Medicine
- Understanding of Clinical Governance and Audit.
- Under and post graduate teaching experience
Desirable
- Training in management.
- Understanding of business planning and commissioning.
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Meets good clinical / research practice standards
- Extensive knowledge of relevant Specialty
- Organisational skills
- Problem solving
- Good inter-personal and communications skills
- Computer skills and IT literacy
- Ability to apply managerial & professional theory
- Leadership and teaching
- Commitment to multidisciplinary team working
- Commitment to continuing medical education
- Ability to conduct teaching and research
- Ability to meet on call requirements
- Commitment to the goals of the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital
Desirable
- Experience at consultant level
- IT skills for word processing and data handling
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).