Consultant in Acute Medicine | University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 29 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £109,725 - £145,478 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 September 2025 |
| Location: | Burton-On-Trent, DE13 0RB |
| Company: | University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7447351/320-MDQ-7300757-GM-A |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit an enthusiastic Consultant to join the Acute Medicine Department at University Hospitals of Derby & Burton NHS Foundation Trust. The post will be based at Queens Hospital, Burton.
The Acute Medicine Business Unit is proud to offer high quality clinical care within flexible and sustainable job plan structures. We positively encourage part time working or job plans split with other specialties. A number of our team operate in this way, delivering DCC in other medical specialties, including stroke medicine and Cardiology.
Our vision is ‘to be a pinnacle for best practice and patient care across our emergency and urgent care pathways. We will integrate our services with the wider urgent care network to ensure patients receive the best care possible at the right time and in the right place'.
Our aim is to provide senior clinical decisions on patient care from the moment of arrival to discharge, with the minimum of unavoidable delay. We take pride in excellent patient care and that is why we are consistently scoring in high percentile for last three years running with SAMs audit.
Further details of Roles and Responsibilities whilst fulfilling AMU shifts, Standard Operating Procedures for AMU handover and Unit Operational Standards will be reviewed during Induction with the team for the successful candidate.
There is full 24-hr middle grade cover within the Department whilst also being able to offer a proactive approach to further training, development and education, including a well-equipped Centre for simulation-based training and a very supportive educational faculty - our educational supervisors have rated highly in GMC surveys.
We have opportunities for you to undertake flexible working and would be more than happy to discuss this with you prior to interview.
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts about our Trust:
• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
i. Management of patients on the Medical Admissions Unit and Medical Same Day Emergency Care Unit at University Hospitals of Derby & Burton NHS Foundation Trust, including patients referred by their GP, the Emergency Department or by other specialties. Provide Acute
Medicine in-reach to Adult patients in the Emergency Department.
ii. Responsibility for personal performance of clinical duties as agreed in their job plan,
allowing for all proper delegation to, and training of staff.
iii. Provision of cover for Consultant colleagues during reasonable periods of leave including care of patients and supervision of junior doctors and wherever possible any fixed commitments.
These are exciting times to join us at Acute Medicine business unit at Queens hospital Burton UHDB. We are planning to expand and extend our services, which include AMU, SSU, SDEC and Virtual ward.
Sub-specialty interest in any other medical specialty can be accommodated. Candidates can be accommodated for up to 2 PAs to pursue specialty of their interest. Interest in improving SDEC services and virtual ward like e,g Frailty services will be encouraged, and successful candidates will be given an extra PA to improve these services
This advert closes on Monday 29 Sep 2025