Job overview

We are looking to appoint Consultant Physicians for our Acute Medicine department. The Trust sees these appointment as a key part of an exciting opportunity to develop an innovative approach to acute medical care that places unscheduled care as the central function of the Trust in collaboration with local community partners. The posts will support the existing Consultants in Acute Medicine at Hampshire Hospitals. They will be pivotal in delivering a consultant lead service for our Emergency Medical Assessment Units. It will bolster the current model of care provided by Acute Medicine specialists and increase the scope and the quality of our front-line service.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicants will be expected to:

• Join the Acute General Medicine team and deliver the Trusts urgent care strategy. This will mean working in close co-operation with Emergency and Specialist Physicians, Older persons services and Primary care, to build an efficient and seamless system of care.
• Provide Consultant service on the Acute Medical Assessment Unit  and in reach to the Emergency Department. Rapid Same Day Emergency services and direct GP admission services are active. The post holder would be supported in further developing pathways of care for ambulatory patients.
• On-going Consultant support to short stay patients, general medical patients remaining on the assessment units.
• To participate in teaching and training of junior staff.
• Participate in audit and responsibility for clinical governance

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.