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Job summary

Main area
Acute and General Medicine
Grade
YM73
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (N/A)
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
220-EIM-MED-009-B
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Whittington Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
11/06/2025 23:59

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Locum Consultant in Acute and General Medicine

YM73

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Job overview

“Best of both” at the Whittington – The Whittington Hospital is a unique place. It combines the academic ethos of a University Hospital with the friendliness of a Rural DGH. The number of students and junior doctors who return as registrars and consultants is testament to the positive working environment and the collegiate atmosphere that has been created. Add in the lowest Standardised Mortality Ratio in the country and you have hospital that is a great place to work.

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.

Main duties of the job

Please see the full Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role. 

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.  We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.  The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

There are 3 areas of work within the post, AAU ward, Ambulatory care and ‘Hot’ post taking.

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.

Person specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential criteria
  • Full GMC Registration
  • MBBS, MRCP or equivalent
  • Entry on Specialist Register in Acute Medicine or General (Internal) Medicine (or entry expected within 6 months from the date of interview)
Desirable criteria
  • MSc, PhD
  • CCT in Acute Medicine
  • Consideration will also be given to applicants with Specialty Training in General (Internal) Medicine who have demonstrated a firm commitment to a career in Acute Medicine

Relevant Experience

Essential criteria
  • Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively
  • Ability to organise research and work within research governance procedures
  • Ability to plan strategically and to exercise sound judgements when faced with conflicting pressures
  • Ability to motivate and develop the multi-disciplinary team, balancing departmental and personal objectives.
Desirable criteria
  • Formal training in educational and clinical supervision of junior Drs

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Ability to offer expert clinical opinion in a range of problems within speciality
  • Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the care of patients.

Management and audit

Essential criteria
  • Experience of conducting clinical audit.
  • Ability to use the evidence base and clinical audit to support decision-making
Desirable criteria
  • Formal training in management and administration
  • Guideline and pathway development

Academic Achievements/Research/ Publications

Essential criteria
  • Participated in research
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in organising educational activities
  • Published papers in peer reviewed journals

Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleDisability confident leaderInvestors in PeopleImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident committed

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Ilana Samson
Job title
Clinical Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Duncan Carmichael, Clinical Director - [email protected]

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Whittington Health NHS Trust
Magdala Avenue
London
N19 5NF
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