Consultant in Acute Medicine

We are looking for a dynamic and motivated Acute Medicine Consultant to join our friendly and enthusiastic team. The successful candidate will join six other substantive consultants in providing the highest quality care possible for patients across in our Acute Assessment Unit and our Same Day Emergency Care Unit at Pinderfields Hospital.

We're proud that our workforce - our greatest asset - strives for excellence every day in providing care and support to thousands of people living across Wakefield and North Kirklees. Mid-Yorkshire celebrates excellence and innovation. We have modern, state-of-the-art facilities and provide first class learning and development opportunities. Mid-Yorkshire is transforming, grounded in our values to care and improve, respecting our patients, our community and our staff, to deliver the highest standards of care.

If you are a dynamic, innovative and forward-thinking clinician with a passion for your profession and an enthusiasm to be part of a Trust striving to be the best, get in touch to see what a career at Mid-Yorkshire could be like for you.

We are particularly interested in hearing from candidates who have a specialist interest within research., The main duties of the post will include

Provide on-call and consultant-present care across our sites, with a primary focus on the acute Medical Assessment Unit (AAU) at Pinderfields Hospital and on Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) at Pinderfields Hospital, and each of the team take a share of consultant-present evening and weekend duties, along with the general medical on-call team.

Daytime Duties: part of the scheduled weekly timetable (below) with two consultants providing concurrent wards in close liaison with a third, coordinating, consultant who provides assessment and coordination with the Emergency Department. Sub-specialty support is provided from respiratory, cardiology, diabetes, acute oncology and neurology teams.

Weekday Evenings: scheduled rounds are provided until 2100 on a (planned)1:16 basis, paired with a consultant geriatrician who leads a parallel round caring for older patients.

Weekend Daytime: scheduled rounds are provided 0900-1700hrs on a (planned) 1:8 basis in parallel with two consultant geriatricians and a respiratory consultant.

On-Call (non-resident, supporting the resident junior staff) is combined general medicine/elderly care and is currently on a 1:16 basis, assessed as 1.5PA.

We provide care and support to over a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our workforce.

We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.

We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all applicants are treated fairly and consistently.

We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.

We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.