Consultant in Acute​/General Medicine

As a Consultant in Acute/General Medicine with Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care within our innovative Virtual Ward Service. You will provide clinical leadership, oversee the management of patients with acute and long-term conditions, and work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to deliver care in community settings.

This role combines direct clinical care, service development, and education, offering the opportunity to shape the future of acute medical services outside the traditional hospital environment. You will be instrumental in supporting the Trust's vision to provide accessible, holistic care closer to patients' homes, while also contributing to quality improvement and staff development initiatives.

The post is ideal for a motivated and forward-thinking clinician who is committed to excellence, innovation, and collaborative working.

• Provide clinical leadership for the Virtual Ward, working with a skilled multi-professional team.
• Deliver expert care for patients with acute and long-term conditions, both remotely and face-to-face.
• Support service development, quality improvement, and staff education.
• Collaborate with acute and community partners to deliver seamless care.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

For further information on the role, please see the attached document entitled Job Description and Person Specification.

• MRCP UK or equivalent.
• MBBS, MBChB or equivalent medical qualification
• Full Registration and a licence to practise with the General Medical Council (GMC)
• Entry on the General Medical Council (GMC) Specialist Register via one of the following:
  
  - Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) (the proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of the interview) or - Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR)

• Broad exposure to medical diseases and their comprehensive management (acute and long-term conditions).
• Comprehensive knowledge in the specialty and ability to offer expert clinical opinion on range of problems.
• Demonstrates good knowledge of the structures and culture of the NHS, roles, responsibilities and relationships across the MDT and the multi-professional team

• Keeps up to date with current research and best practice in the individual's specific area of practice, through appropriate continuing professional development activities and their own independent study and reflection.
• Knowledge and experience of supervising undergraduates, junior doctors and other staff.
• Ability to teach clinical skills.

• Ability to develop effective working relationships on an individual and multi-disciplinary basis with all levels of staff
• Knowledge and application of effective communication strategies in distressing and challenging situations. For example the management of palliative care interventions, crisis management.
• Ability to motivate and develop the multi-disciplinary team, balancing departmental and personal objectives.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.