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Locum consultant in Acute Medicine


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Location

Chelsea, Greater London | United Kingdom


Job description

Key Result Areas, Main Duties and Responsibilities Provide High Quality Care to Patients The post holder must be medically qualified and maintain GMC specialist registration and revalidation. Develop and maintain the competencies required to carry out the duties required of the post. Ensure prompt attendance at agreed direct clinical care Programmed Activities. Ensure patients are involved in decisions about their care and to respond to their views. Adhere to the Trust Customer Service Commitment and adopt a professional approach to customer care at all times. Develop clinical practice through self-reflection and learning from experience, application of research into practice and active contribution within the multi-disciplinary team. Research, Teaching and Training Contribute to high quality teaching to medical undergraduates and members of other health care professions. To contribute to training and teaching of medical trainees, medical students, other doctors in training and other staff groups. Contribute to teaching and training non-Consultant postgraduate colleagues. Contribute to the clinical and/or educational supervision and appraisal of training grade doctors in order to ensure external accreditation of training posts. Where possible to collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trusts translational research/audit portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of Research Governance. There is flexibility in the job plan to dedicate variable amounts of time to research, teaching and training depending on individual interests. Ensure that your mandatory training is up to date as per Trust policy. Performance Management Work with medical, nursing, other clinical and managerial colleagues to ensure high performance in the following areas: Clinical efficiency e.g. Length of Stay (LOS) reductions, admission on day of surgery, reducing cancelled operations and DNA rates. Quality of outcomes e.g. infection control targets, reducing re-admission rates. Financial management e.g. identification, implementation and achievement of cost improvement programmes and participating in efforts to ensure services are provided cost effectively e.g. managing locum agency spend, monitoring and managing the drug budget to target, ensuring accuracy of clinical data for the team. Medical Staff Management and Accountability Responsible for on-going assessment and regular appraisal of all doctors in training, Trust doctors and non-consultant grades as delegated by the Divisional Medical Director/Service Lead /Divisional Director of Operations. Adhere to Trust / department guidelines on leave, including requesting and reporting absence, and professional and study leave, and to ensure that members of staff for whom you are responsible do the same. Participate in team objective setting as part of the annual job planning cycle. Participate fully in regular departmental activities including department meetings and team building activities.


Job tags

Full timeTraineeshipLocum


Salary

£93.67k - £126.28k per annum

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