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Job summary

Main area
Acute Medicine
Grade
Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
287-RMED-436-24
Employer
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Liverpool Hospital
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
03/12/2024 23:59

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Consultant Acute Medicine

Consultant

Job overview

We are looking to recruit to a whole-time Consultant,  offering exciting opportunities for a highly motivated Medic to join a dynamic , rapidly expanding team delivering multidisciplinary acute care.

We believe this is an opportunity to join an established consultant team who lead from the frontline, supported by doctors in training from the Mersey deanery and a skilled nursing team, providing outstanding 24 hour care.

The successful candidate will help us to continue to develop medical services within the Trust which includes responsibility for not only the acute medical units but also same day emergency care unit.

The Acute & Emergency Medicine Care Group encompasses the specialities of Acute Medicine and Emergency medicine within the Division of Medicine at the Royal Liverpool Hospital.

The Division’s Medical Director is Dr Mark Lawton with Dr Patricia Cunningham as the Clinical Director for Acute Medicine. All major clinical subspecialties are represented within the Division of Medicine (cardiology, respiratory medicine, gastroenterology, nephrology, diabetes & endocrinology, clinical gerontology, dermatology & allergy, rheumatology and infectious diseases & clinical pharmacology). Neurology is provided by the regional neurological centre (Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust) based at the University Hospital Aintree campus.

Main duties of the job

Acute emergency medical admissions are preferentially handled within the Acute Medical Unit (AMU), which is situated adjacent to the Emergency Department (ED) at the Royal Liverpool Hospital.  This unit deals with the majority (over 90%) of the Division’s total acute admissions, whether admitted via ED or through GP referral. The AMU currently has 66 beds, as well as a newly established acute assessment assessment area with 26 fully examination spaces. Approximately 40% of all admissions to the AMU are discharged to home directly from the unit.  The median stay on AMU for all patients is in the region of 18 hours

Since opening in 2018 there has been a significant investment in the ambulatory emergency care service (AEC). There is a dedicated space to assess and manage patients requiring same day interventions as well as the facilities to bring patients back for assessment, allowing for safe and early discharge from hospital. There is also a virtual component to the work carried out on AEC allowing a more efficient way of managing our patients and reducing the number of trips to hospital.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The AMU Consultants work very closely with the AED team, the on-call Medical Specialist Registrars and IMT and Consultant Physicians across the Medical directorate to help support the management of the Acute take.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of  main responsibilities etc.                                                                                                 

Person specification

Academic & Research Skills

Essential criteria
  • Research Skills: Demonstrates ability to undertake robust audit / research within team structure.
  • Teaching Skills: Demonstrates range of teaching techniques relevant to variety of curricula,
Desirable criteria
  • Degrees, awards, presentations, publications. Evidence of teaching and assessment skills.

Clinical Skills

Essential criteria
  • Clinical Knowledge & Expertise: Appropriate knowledge base and ability to apply sound clinical judgement to problems. Demonstrates the necessary range, depth and breadth of competencies specified in the acute and general medicine curriculum and applying to this post.

Language Skills

Essential criteria
  • All applicants to have demonstrable skills in written and spoken English that are adequate to enable effective communication about medical topics with patients and colleagues

Fitness to Practice

Essential criteria
  • Is up to date and fit to practise safely

Eligibility

Essential criteria
  • Eligible for full registration with the GMC at time of appointment
  • Membership of Society of Acute Medicine
  • Evidence of achievement of competencies by time of appointment in line with GMC standards/Good Medical Practice including: o Good clinical care o Maintaining good medical practice o Good relationships and communication with patients o Good working relationships with colleagues o Good teaching and training o Professional behaviour and probity o Delivery of good acute clinical care
  • Eligibility to work in the UK

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • MB ChB or equivalent medical qualification
  • MRCP (UK) or equivalent
  • CCT in acute medicine or GIM (General Internal Medicine) (or within 6 months)
Desirable criteria
  • Additional post-graduate qualifications. CCT in acute Medicine

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Patricia Cunningham
Job title
Clinical Director
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0151 706 2000
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