Job summary
OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Applications are invited for 2 Locum consultant posts in Acute General Medicine (AGM) at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (OUHFT). The OUH NHS Trust comprises four hospitals: the John Radcliffe, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Churchill Hospital and the Horton General Hospital. Applicants will be based mainly at the Horton Hospital and John Radcliffe Hospital and those with subspecialty interest are very welcome.
This is an exciting time to join AGM at OUHFT and become part of a consultant workforce with a reputation for excellence. We are seeking enthusiastic colleagues who are skilled in the delivery of acute medical care and the interface with the Emergency Department and other hospital specialties
Main duties of the job
We work in a flexible and modular way that allows the opportunity for ongoing consultant career development. Those with other specialty or subspecialty interests such as (but no exclusively) Geriatric Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Renal, Respiratory, Gastroenterology, Diabetes and Endocrine are welcomed and job plans can be tailored to pursue these interests.
We will support new colleagues in developing teaching and leadership roles. The Trust is a clinically led organisation and AGM consultants play key senior management roles. Research activities are developing and new appointments may support this.
The appointments are on a full-time basis. Applications are welcome from those who wish to job share or work less than full-time. Those with subspecialty interests are encouraged to discuss the opportunities that are available.
About us
Acute General Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital has a firm-based structure with up to 60% of patients being admitted and discharged under the same consultant. We promote team-working and continuity of care. Junior doctor rotas are engineered to support this continuity and maintain a firm- or team-based working. Feedback from the juniors as a result is universally positive.
Ambulatory Medicine at the OUH is a mature consultant-led service which handles all medical referrals made to the hospital with a progressive 'ambulatory by default' approach. The Ambulatory Assessment Unit (AAU) sees more than 50% of the acute medical take during hours of operation while maintaining a low conversion to admission rate (10%) and ranks in the top 5 ambulatory units nationally (SAMBA 2019).
Horton General Hospital is in the market town of Banbury and serves the growing population of North Oxfordshire and surrounding areas. The AGM department has recently transformed the way in which consultant-led care is delivered across the inpatient areas with a dedicated EAU consultant, increased Ambulatory care and interface work in ED.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to attached PDF to review the full job description including person specification and indicative job plan.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to attached PDF to review the full job description including person specification and indicative job plan.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Medical Degree (MBChB, MBBS)
- MRCP or equivalent
- GMC registration (Full registration and licence to practise)
Desirable
- Higher medical degree
- CCT in General or Acute Internal Medicine or CCT in other Medical specialty appropriate to acute medicine or Registration on the GMC specialist register in Acute/ General Internal Medicine or Are within six months of achieving CCT at the time of interview
Experience
Essential
- General training in medicine to specialist level or equivalent
- Experience in acute general medicine (minimum of 12 months at SpR or consultant level)
- Broad experience of acute general medicine
- Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems
Desirable
- Experience in management of frail elderly in acute setting
- Evidence of completed and published research.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent leadership skills.
- Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of a consultant in a teaching hospital.
- Sufficient organisational skills to function as a consultant
- Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
- Evidence of interdisciplinary and multi-professional working
- Evidence of flexibility and open to innovative ways of working
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
- Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
- Ability to support departmental research.
Desirable
- Evidence of leadership in NHS, research, teaching, professional bodies or service development.
- Management qualification.
- Ability to use word processor, spreadsheet and presentation programs.
- Prior experience with clinical information systems.
- Experience as clinical or educational supervisor
- Peer reviewed publications
- Research grants
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Medical Degree (MBChB, MBBS)
- MRCP or equivalent
- GMC registration (Full registration and licence to practise)
Desirable
- Higher medical degree
- CCT in General or Acute Internal Medicine or CCT in other Medical specialty appropriate to acute medicine or Registration on the GMC specialist register in Acute/ General Internal Medicine or Are within six months of achieving CCT at the time of interview
Experience
Essential
- General training in medicine to specialist level or equivalent
- Experience in acute general medicine (minimum of 12 months at SpR or consultant level)
- Broad experience of acute general medicine
- Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems
Desirable
- Experience in management of frail elderly in acute setting
- Evidence of completed and published research.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent leadership skills.
- Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of a consultant in a teaching hospital.
- Sufficient organisational skills to function as a consultant
- Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
- Evidence of interdisciplinary and multi-professional working
- Evidence of flexibility and open to innovative ways of working
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
- Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
- Ability to support departmental research.
Desirable
- Evidence of leadership in NHS, research, teaching, professional bodies or service development.
- Management qualification.
- Ability to use word processor, spreadsheet and presentation programs.
- Prior experience with clinical information systems.
- Experience as clinical or educational supervisor
- Peer reviewed publications
- Research grants
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).
