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. 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.
Responsibilities
* Highest-quality care to patients, prioritising their safety and dignity.
* Authentic, confident leadership.
* In-depth teaching and training to under/postgraduates and supervising 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.
* Provide high-quality consultant-delivered care to patients requiring the service, ensuring the highest standards of clinical care are met.
* 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.
* Provide teaching and training at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
* Supervise and train the junior clinical team and our specialty doctors.
* 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.
* Liaise with clinicians and managers within and outside the Department to address any issues arising that may affect the service.
* 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.
You will be joining the organisation at an exciting time. As the first fully integrated care organisation in England, we are working to improve the way we deliver safe, high-quality health and social care. We have a positive and vibrant working atmosphere, we are proud of our investment in our staff both in terms of developing potential career skills and valuing people.
If you provide support to a family member or friend with health or care needs, we aim to be a Carer-friendly employer. We have a Staff Carers' policy which includes flexible working where possible and a Carer's Passport scheme that links you into support and discounts.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
* We reserve the right to close vacancies early if we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we encourage you to apply promptly.
* Please read the job description carefully and tailor your application to reflect the requirements of the role.
* Applicants who identify in their application form they are a part of the Armed Forces community will be guaranteed an interview, provided they meet the minimum essential criteria outlined in the job description and person specification for the role.
* Correspondence will be sent via Trac, text, and email. Please ensure you check your email and Trac account regularly.
* Applicants with no previous NHS experience will ordinarily be appointed to the minimum of the band.
* If you have not received an invitation to interview within 28 days of the closing date, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
* It is your responsibility to ensure the timely receipt of appropriate references.
EEO statement: The Trust is committed to preventing discrimination, valuing diversity and achieving equality of opportunity. No person (staff, patient or public) will receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of the nine protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. If you require support you can obtain this from our Equality Business Forum which has representatives from all protected groups.
Acute Medicine benefits from an experienced and knowledgeable leadership team that has a strong working relationship with the Trust senior leadership and executive team through its work in development of our acute services. Acute Medicine is well known as a nurturing and supportive department both for senior medical staff and for doctors in training. We work collaboratively with the well-established multidisciplinary teams of nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and discharge coordinators on our Emergency Assessment Unit and Acute Medical Unit, all of which maintain a strong culture of safety and professionalism.
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