Locum Consultant in Acute and General Medicine

The Acute Medicine Team is at the heart of daily life at the Whittington and we are now looking for an enthusiastic and committed locum consultant to join our team.
The successful candidate will join the existing Acute Medicine consultant team in helping to deliver Acute Medicine Services. You would also be on the GIM on call weekend and out of hours rota which is run from the larger cohort of GIM specialities combined with the Acute Medicine consultants.
The person(s) appointed will have experience of a broad acute medical training and will be capable of handling the range of medical problems that occur within the setting of an acute hospital. The appointee must be an effective team player and will be flexible in approaching new ways of working.
The successful candidate as well as having an absorbing job will have numerous opportunities to continue to develop their career., Please see the full Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role., Each of the AAU wards has a dedicated consultant Monday - Friday who will do a full ward round each morning following medical handover, with a team of 3-5 resident doctors on each ward. You will cover part or full weeks on the ward with a morning ward round followed by the MDT board round and an afternoon review with the team.
The Ambulatory Care service has a 'consultant of the day; working 9-5 leading the team assessing new patients referred from a variety of sources from ED, 111, GPs and follow up from Acute Medicine discharges. The consultant holds the referrals phone as the single point of contact for the AEC and medical take to facilitate a streamlined advice service and guide acutely unwell patients to the appropriate area of the hospital. There is a twice daily board round where all patients seen are discussed and the service uses a shared electronic 'live board' to facilitate real time demand and capacity sharing across the Emergency Department.
The Hot take is currently a 6 hour 2-8pm shift reviewing new admissions who are being seen by the on call team of resident doctors. Successful recruitment would add a 4 hour morning post take session bringing our capacity to 10 hours post taking each weekday.
The weekend work is covered by a larger cohort of GIM accredited consultants who work across the EIM, including cardiologists, gastroenterologists, respiratory physicians and elderly care (COOP) consultants. The Acute Medicine consultants form a large proportion of this rota as their GIM commitment. Your post would include the GIM on call rota component.
The Acute Medicine Consultant Rota is a flexible rota written around the requirements of the individual and we are exploring an AI personalised rota going forward to best map to each member's needs.
Outside the immediate clinical duties, you will be expected to provide bedside teaching to both medical students on the ward and resident doctors, support their learning through formal feedback via their eportfolios and other assessments and participate in governance activities and QI within the department. We have a robust leadership team who are keen to support you in achieving your own development goals and welcome innovation and change within the service.
Please view the attached job description for full details.
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
+ Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
+ Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
+ Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
+ Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
+ Participate in required training and supervision.
+ Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Your application form -
1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.
Our processes -
1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems - occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.
Other important information -
+ Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
+ Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
+ In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation