Job overview

Consultant in Acute Medicine

The successful applicant will form an expanded team of 14 whole time equivalent Consultants in Acute Medicine taking it to full establishment and will be based at East Surrey Hospital. The Acute Medicine team and service have been developed significantly over the last 10 years and its onwards development is in line with RCP guidance across the trust. The department is now looking to develop its services in short stay medicine and sub specialty interests. Opportunities for special interests are available within the job plan including ambulatory care, point of care ultrasound and teaching and in additional specialty areas such Stroke, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Rheumatology and Elderly care and Frailty services. These posts are a substantive appointment and we would welcome applications from those who are post CCT in Acute Medicine. The applicant would be assigned a senior Consultant mentor to support their development.

For more information regarding the post/informal visits, please contact: Dr Martin Dachsel, Clinical Lead for Acute Medicine ([email protected])

Interviews: 21st May 2025

Main duties of the job

We are looking for applicants with a wide experience in Acute and General Medicine who have excellent team-working skills with the abilities and professional skills to lead service developments in the Trust. We are keen to expand on our provision of bedside focused acute medical ultrasound with three in house FAMUS supervisors and FUSIC mentors and 1 BSE accredited supervisor so would welcome candidates with experience or those that are interested to develop this skill or consolidate existing experience. We have currently 3 state of the art Point of Care Ultrasound devices and 1 departmental Echocardiography device in Acute Medicine. We are keen to promote education and learning and provide a good educational experience to trainees and have been as top in the KSS region by Acute Internal Medicine Specialty trainees attached to us in the 2019 GMC Trainee survey. We would welcome those teaching skills and help support applications for honorary teaching posts at our associated medical school.

For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

Working for our organisation

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England: 
•    Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021.
•    National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do.
•    We are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.