Consultant in General Medicine (with SI)

• Clinical and administrative responsibility for patients.
• Leadership of the medical staff to include development, training, recruitment, supervision and discipline of resident doctors.
• Collaboration with senior nursing staff and the specialty manager to ensure the safe and effective running of the ward.
• Supervision of medical admissions on the ward to include prompt review of new admissions and daily board rounds.
• Promoting flow through the emergency floor by helping the site team with bed allocations
• Recruitment, supervision and training of resident medical staff and allied health professionals working on the ward.
• Ensuring that resuscitation and end of life care issues are appropriately and sensitively managed.
• Development of clinical pathways that support early discharge
• Delivery of clinical audits and quality improvement relevant to the needs of the department.
• Recruitment and active involvement with clinical trials.
• Participate on the GIM on call rota.

Essential

• Full registration and a license to practice with the GMC
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register for General Internal Medicine (GIM) via CCT (CCT date must be within 6 months of the interview date) or Portfolio Pathway (previously CESR)
• MBBS or equivalent
• Educational Supervisor qualification

Desirable

• Postgraduate degree e.g. MSc MD PhD
• Out of programme management experience (e.g. Deanery secondment)
• Teaching/Education qualification
• Appraiser qualification
• Qualification in leadership and/ or clinical management.

Essential

• Wide experience of General Internal Medicine including multidisciplinary working
• Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience
• Specialist interest in Same Day Emergency Care, Enhanced Level Care, Cardiology, Renal medicine, Care of the Elderly, Acute Medicine, Respiratory Medicine or relevant
• Experience of general medicine working at consultant level in the UK