# Consultant in Acute Internal Medicine **Company**: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust **Location**: Carshalton **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: permanent **Salary**: £113,565 to £150,569 a year **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9343-26-0850?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_28bb4675-8f4 ## Description We are looking to recruit a new Consultant into our Acute Medicine Service to join a dynamic team of acute physicians at Epsom and St Helier University Trust. The successful applicant will join a team of AMU consultants developing and providing exciting new services within acute medicine. The trust has recently been identified as one of the trusts in London to receive £500 million for a new acute hospital facility in Sutton. **Main duties of the job** - To show dynamism, enthusiasm, and flexibility in participating in the reshaping of acute medical services at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust and to work closely with the Clinical Lead and Deputy Divisional Medical Director. - To help provide a first-class clinical service to all Trust patients. - 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 associated medical specialty areas. - To support and sustain teaching and research where possible in relevant clinical areas. - To work within the framework of applicable Trust policies, procedures, and clinical governance framework. - To work within contractual requirements, and in support of applicable Trust clinical development frameworks, business plans, and development strategies. - To consistently treat all patients and colleagues with respect and professionalism and to adhere to the principles of the Trust regarding equality and diversity. **Job responsibilities** - To share in the organisation and provision of high-quality clinical care for acute medical patients within the Trust. - To assess and review patients within the setting of the Acute Medical Unit and SDEC, including performing appropriate clinical procedures in this setting. - To facilitate the early discharge of acute medical patients, including where necessary, by early review in the Acute Medical Unit/SDEC review clinics, where clinically appropriate. - To provide senior support and input into clinical decisions taken by junior medical staff within the Acute Medical Unit / SDEC. - To ensure the provision of accurate and timely communication between the Acute Medical Unit/ SDEC, other units within the Trust (including critical care), and in primary or intermediate care settings. - To work to provide smooth, timely, and appropriate transfer of patients to appropriate specialty beds within the Trust. - To participate in the development and implementation of care pathways for common medical emergency presentations. - To participate in the out-of-hours medical on-call rota at weekends (the intensity is site-dependent), such on-call including assuming clinical responsibility for the care of all medical patients within the Trust (including those outside of the Acute Medical Unit). - If requested and agreed with the Deputy Divisional Medical Directors for Medicine, to contribute to a sub-speciality service in the form of clinics, procedural lists, and specialist ward referrals. **Person Specification** - Qualifications: + Hold a medical qualification or qualification registered with the GMC + Entry onto the Specialist Register or be within six months of obtaining CCT + Appropriate higher medical qualification i.e., MRCP/MRCS or equivalent + Completion of at least one specialist skill as defined by the The Society for Acute Medicine - Experience: + Clinical Experience in line with person specification + Management & Administrative Experience in line with person specification + Teaching Experience in line with person specification + Research Experience in line with person specification + Personal Attributes in line with person specification **Benefits** - Competitive salary: £113,565 to £150,569 a year - Regular grand rounds and educational opportunities - Active supportive structure within the Trust to achieve CESR - Opportunities for innovative approaches and ideas to continued healthcare and education ## Skills ### Required - MRCP - MRCS - GMC registration - Specialist Register ### Nice to have - MD or equivalent higher degree - Training in Acute Care Common Stem - Training within an Acute Medical Unit - SCE Acute Internal Medicine - FAMUS or POCUS Accreditation --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9343-26-0850?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)