About this role
Job summary
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is seeking to appoint a Locum Consultant Physician in General Internal Medicine to join the Trust's General Internal Medicine (GIM) Directorate at New Cross Hospital. This is a locum consultant post created to strengthen consultant-delivered inpatient care for the acute medical take and its downstream GIM bed base.
The post is a dedicated General Internal Medicine appointment. The successful candidate will hold a base GIM ward, deliver daily consultant-led board rounds and ward rounds, and contribute to the acute medical take through the consultant GIM on-call rota. The post carries no subspecialty outpatient commitment: the design deliberately separates generalist inpatient care from specialty activity so that GIM inpatients receive continuous, named consultant care that is not interrupted by competing specialty sessions.
The job plan comprises 10.0 programmed activities: 8.5 PAs of direct clinical care and 1.5 PAs of supporting professional activities. The 1.5 SPA allocation is required for continuing professional development, appraisal, audit and revalidation.
The appointee will join a consultant GIM on-call rota at an expected frequency of 1 in 8, Category A, attracting an availability supplement of 5% of full-time basic salary.
Main duties of the job
To provide consultant-delivered care to general internal medicine inpatients on an allocated base ward at New Cross Hospital, acting as the named responsible consultant for those patients.
as per job description
About us
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Job description Job responsibilities
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is seeking to appoint a Locum Consultant Physician in General Internal Medicine to join the Trusts General Internal Medicine (GIM) Directorate at New Cross Hospital. This is a locum consultant post created to strengthen consultant-delivered inpatient care for the acute medical take and its downstream GIM bed base.
Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to work less than full time or as part of a job share. The Trust will construct a proportionate job plan on the same principles, retaining the full 1.5 core SPA allocation and a minimum of 2.0 SPAs for any post of 6 PAs or more, in line with RCP guidance.
Please see attached job description
Person Specification
Registration Essential
Full registration with the General Medical Council with a licence to practise, and evidence of continued registration Specialist Registration: Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in General (Internal) Medicine, or eligibility for entry within six months of the date of interview, via CCT, the Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR), or a relevant European or recognised specialist qualification Qualification: MRCP(UK) or an equivalent qualification recognised as such Clinical experience: Broad training and experience in general internal medicine sufficient to take independent consultant responsibility for the acute medical take and for general medical inpatients; competence in the management of the acutely unwell medical patient; competence in the practical procedures expected of a general physician
Desirable
Dual accreditation in General (Internal) Medicine and a medical specialty FRCP; an appropriate higher degree (MD, PhD or equivalent); postgraduate qualification in medical education, quality improvement, patient safety or leadership Experience of a consultant-of-the-week or continuity-of-care inpatient model; experience of same day emergency care, frailty or ambulatory pathways; experience of virtual ward or hospital at home care
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.
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Address NEW CROSS HOSPITAL
Wolverhampton Road
WOLVERHAMPTON
WV10 0QP
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.royalwolverhampton.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)