Job summary
- Main area
- Consultant
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 825-6901820-OPS
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Halesfield Halesfield 6
- Town
- Telford
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant for Urgent and Emergency Care
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicant who require a visa to work in the UK, providing the role you’ve been recruited to meets the requirements set by the Home Office.
From 4 April 2024 overseas workers requiring a general Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) but sponsored by an NHS organisation will need to meet the new salary threshold of £38,700. In addition, applications to the Health and Care Visa route for those occupations paid by NHS bands that are on the immigration salary, a list of skilled jobs which have lower salary requirements, will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the new minimum salary threshold of £23,200 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.
Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list
https://www.gov.uk/health-care-worker-visa/different-salary-requirements
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint 1.00 WTE Consultant Physician with an
interest in Geriatrics within the division of Urgent Community Services
to join our expanding team and department. We are expanding our
clinical expertise to meet the demands of the Virtual Ward, Urgent Community Response Team and Community Services including intermediate care beds.
We invite candidates who have a passion for leadership and want to be
part of a dynamic team and are willing to work in a fast paced and busy
growing Community NHS Trust. You will join at a time as we grow our
thriving specialist teams who have special interest in development.
Main duties of the job
A key aim of this role is to provide consultant cover across our
community services, this will include the provision of senior clinical
oversight to the Urgent Community Response Team and the Virtual Ward
services which are embedded within our Urgent and Emergency Care
Community Service Division. This is a key leadership role to support the
ongoing transformation of our admission avoidance and step-down
service offer to the system, whilst working in key collaboration with our
acute trust. This division of care also includes Integrated Discharge
team, Minor Injury Units, Community Hospitals and DAART (Diagnosis,
Assessment and Rehab Team) services which enable integrated services
to support patients journey.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the role, please see the attached document entitled Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full Registration with GMC.
- MRCP UK or equivalent.
- Specialist registration in Geriatric Medicine and General Internal Medicine or within 6 months of CCT.
- Eligibility for entry on General Medical Council (GMC) Specialist Register or entry within six months of interview.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad experience in geriatric medicine.
- Familiarity with models of care delivery in community setting.
- Knowledge or experience in service redesign or development.
Skills / Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of experience in providing clinical input into administration of a department.
- Evidence of ability to lead within multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring high quality care and colleagues morale.
- Familiar with current structure of Health Service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes.
- Organisational ability.
- Able to take responsibility and cope with stressful situations.
- Credibility and integrity.
- Ability to establish good professional relationships with others.
- Management experience and/or qualification Clinical Leadership courses.
- Experience in service redesign.
Personal Skills
Essential criteria
- Effective communicator, excellent presentation skills, able to work in a close-knit team and cooperate with all medical and paramedical staff.
- Ability to problem solve and manage workload and adapt and manage own stress, in a rapidly changing NHS environment and moving goalposts.
- Thorough understanding of principles of medical audit. Must have undertaken and completed audit projects or service evaluations.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Robinson
- Job title
- Divisional Manager for Urgent & Emergency Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07816373150
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