Acute Medical Consultants

This is an innovative post for an individual looking to develop their role in a dynamic and well‑equipped Acute Medicine Unit. The service is delivered on the Emergency Floor, and we are at an exciting point in time with a brand new stand‑alone Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) unit set to open in July 2025 at St Richard's Hospital.

We recently recruited two new Acute Medical Consultants and are keen to expand our team further to help us in future service development including medical high care. We therefore have a number of areas ripe for service development, and we encourage applicants to discuss the model with our current team.

We aim to provide first‑class care for our patients from arrival, ensuring rapid access to the right service at the right time. Our high 'Friends and Family' recommendation reflects our commitment to patient care using the 'Patient First' approach, with excellent opportunities for service‑redesign. The appointed fixed‑term consultant will be a committed team member striving to improve, deliver good patient care and respond to ongoing challenges in Acute Medicine.

Full-time / Part-time including participation in a 10 PA job plan.

• Post‑take ward rounds and patient reviews (which includes review of results as well as seeing patients and their relatives)
• Once weekly evening consultant review shift
• Supporting junior doctors
• Facilitating discharges
• Service development
• Clinical and managerial leadership

This is Acute Medicine the way you always imagined it would be – interesting, dynamic, exciting and requiring flexibility and adaptability. The nature of the Emergency Floor concept means that there is less demarcation between types of DCC activity than in more traditional posts, and this is reflected in the Job Plan and the ways of working within the team, allowing for attendance at MDT meetings, x‑ray discussions, and case presentations.

The Emergency Floor rota is designed to provide a good balance between non‑clinical and clinical time, ensuring continuity and logical allocation of roles during the day.

At present we are fully integrated within the medical on‑call rota, working 1 in 7 weekends with 1 in 14 on‑call. There is a plan to move to an annualised rota system in the near future, which will allow the consultant team to work a more flexible pattern and balance work and life.

Join us at UHSussex – every day is different, you can be the change, better never stops. At UHSussex we’re proud to be at the heart of the NHS. As one of the UK’s largest acute Trusts, we are a leading example of the excellence, ambition and values that have embodied the NHS for over 70 years.

Improving lives:
We are a vibrant and inclusive organisation, with hardworking, talented and dedicated individuals who work together towards a common goal to always put our patients first. Our mission is summed up by our 'where better never stops' motto and no matter the role at UHSussex you will play a part in driving us forward and in improving the lives of patients across Sussex.

We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We’re here for them when they need us and go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in our extensive wellbeing programme for staff, designed to support you when you need it because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves.

Build a career with us:
As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching and training so that we can be the best we can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We hope that by choosing UHSussex you are choosing a long and happy career where you will see the difference you make and feel valued for all that you do.

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