Consultant - Acute Medicine

Job Overview

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for a Consultant in Acute Medicine to join our enthusiastic, supportive, and forward-thinking team. This is an excellent time to join our service as we continue to expand, offering the successful candidate the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to the development of Acute Medicine within the Trust. You will be joining a well-established team of 12 WTE Acute Medicine Consultants delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across a 42-bedded Acute Medical Unit (AMU), a Consultant-led Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) service, and in-reach to the Emergency Department, with a rotational model across these areas.

Main duties of the job

Our service is underpinned by strong multidisciplinary working and close collaboration with specialty teams, including a 7-day cardiology chest pain in-reach service and an acute frailty service supporting referrals directly from ED and AMU. We also benefit from well-established 24/7 hyperacute stroke and primary PCI pathways with direct access, ensuring timely specialist care for our patients.

The post offers a 10 PA job plan (8 Direct Clinical Care and 2 Supporting Professional Activities) with flexibility by mutual agreement and participation in the general medicine on-call rota, incorporating a 1:8 weekend commitment with resident AMU ward rounds and non-resident on-call duties. The successful candidate will be expected to deliver high-quality, evidence-based care within a robust clinical governance framework, contribute actively to multidisciplinary team working to improve patient flow and outcomes, and support teaching, training, audit, and service development initiatives.

We offer a supportive working environment with excellent administrative and secretarial support, dedicated office space, and a strong commitment to professional development and continuous improvement. A competitive relocation package is available for eligible candidates. Prospective applicants are warmly encouraged to visit the department to experience first-hand the collaborative culture and opportunities available within our Acute Medicine team.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• To provide a high quality service in Acute Care with appropriate evidence based guidelines and clinical governance structure
• To contribute to the multi-disciplinary team working especially on the Acute Medical Unit to drive flow and enhance efficient acute medical care.
• To carry out medical teaching, examination and accreditation duties as required;
• To participate in the formal appraisal of junior medical staff in accordance with guidelines from the Royal College of Physicians and the Regional Postgraduate Dean;
• To contribute to postgraduate and continuing medical education activity including Continuing Professional Development
• To participate in medical audit on a regular basis and to help develop it;
• To provide information as required from time to time for legitimate management purposes, for example to support job planning, service development etc.
• To support the Chief of Service and the Associate Director for Acute and Emergency Medicine appropriate advice with regard to the development of services.
• To work within the framework of policies and procedures relevant to Medical and Dental staff.
• To participate fully in mandatory training as required and modified by the Trust from time to time and also in annual appraisal, job planning and revalidation procedures.
• The duties will be reflected in the job plan, which will be subject to review at least once a year.
  
  

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• MRCP (UK)
• CCT (or equivalent) in Acute internal medicine (or within 6 months of achieving at the time of application)
• Full GMC registration
  
  

Desirable criteria

• SCE in Acute Medicine
• Other post-graduate degree MD/PhD
• FAMUS accreditation
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of acute presentations in adult medicine
• Experience in managing acute medical patients on an AMU, ambulatory settings eg SDEC and MDT working
• Involvement in the unselected medical take
• Ability to advise on efficient and smooth running of acute medicine services
• Experience in leading a multidisciplinary team
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Training in HDU/ICU medicine
• Experience of business planning
• Management experience/training
• Involvement in the design or delivery of ambulatory medicine, an AMU or augmented discharge pathways
  
  

Skills/mental ability

Essential criteria

• Able to evaluate own clinical practice
• Able to demonstrate innotive thinking
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Ability to organise and develop service provision
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.

Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.

We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.

We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.

Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.

Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.

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