Locum Consultant in Acute Medicine | Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 13 Mehefin 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Dependent on experience |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 13 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Carshalton, Surrey, SM5 1AA |
| Cwmni: | Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7277351/343-LCON-193 |
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We are looking to recruit a new Locum Consultant into our Acute Medicine Service to join a dynamic and enthusiastic team of acute physicians working across the Epsom and St Helier sites.
We run a consultant led service on the AMU with strong specialty in-reach support and have a newly renovated, dedicated Same Day Emergency Care Unit (SDEC) that runs in collaboration with Emergency Medicine and provides same day medical assessment care to lower acuity patients, strengthening and improving admission avoidance.
Successful applicants will join a team of AMU consultants developing and providing exciting new services within acute medicine within a trust recently identified as one of the trusts in London to receive £500 million for a new acute hospital facility in Sutton (expected 2025). This is an exciting time to join Epsom and St Helier Hospital and play a part in shaping and developing acute medicine services for the future.
For applicants for which achievement of CESR is relevant there is an active supportive structure within the Trust to achieve this and it will be actively encouraged
There are regular grand rounds & educational opportunities
The trust is open to innovative approaches & ideas to continued healthcare & education and we would welcome such thoughts from the successful candidate.
The Acute Medicine clinical commitment will be cross site between the two Acute Medicine services of the Trust, likely to be 1 week at each site on an alternate week basis.
The post is a basic 10 programmed sessions (8 DCC- of which 1.6 DCC is patient admin-and 2 SPA). We aim to provide the SPA over 1 day to enable hybrid working.
The job plan incorporates being on the GIM on call rota, a 1 in 14 commitment.
The main duties of the role are:
1. To show dynamism, enthusiasm and flexibility in participating in the reshaping of acute medicalservices at the Trust and to work closely with theClinicalLeadandClinicalDirectorofMedicine.
2. Tohelpprovide afirst-classclinicalservice to allTrustpatients.
3. To provide high quality leadership and support to medical staff, allied health care professionals,and Trust management and support staff in both the Acute Medicine Service and associatedmedicalspecialty areas.
4. Tosupportandsustainteachingandresearchwherepossibleinrelevantclinicalareas.
5. ToworkwithintheframeworkofapplicableTrustpolicies,procedures,andclinicalgovernanceframework.
6. Toworkwithincontractualrequirements,andinsupportofapplicableTrustclinicaldevelopmentframeworks,business plans, anddevelopmentstrategies.
7. Toconsistentlytreatallpatientsandcolleagueswithrespectandprofessionalismandtoadheretothe principlesoftheTrust regardingequality anddiversity.
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
For detailed job description and main responsibilities, please see the attached Job Description for AMU Consultant Cross-site.
This advert closes on Sunday 22 Jun 2025