Consultant in Acute Medicine

Employer University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Worthing General Hospital Town Worthing Salary £109,725 - £145,478 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 24/03/2026 23:59

We are seeking an enthusiastic and forward ‑ thinking colleague to support the continued evolution of our Acute Medicine service, including further expansion of Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC).

The service is based on the Worthing Emergency Floor—a Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Future Hospitals Commission pilot site—offering excellent opportunities for innovation and service development. We encourage prospective applicants to discuss the model with our current team.

The successful candidate will join a supportive, highly motivated consultant team dedicated to delivering an excellent service, fostering a positive working culture, and providing a strong learning environment. Our focus is to deliver first ‑ class care from arrival to discharge, innovate in acute medical care, and ensure patients have rapid access to the right services at the right time

The clinical duties of the post include the following:
Post take ward rounds, 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 then 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 UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us always deliver Excellent Care Everywhere, as shown in our Outstanding for Caring CQC rating.

Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of staff networks to help break down barriers, and can offer a buddy to help new members settle in.

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level
3) and a Veteran Aware Trust.

Detailed JD and PS attached.

The full – time job plan is based on 10 Programmed Activities (PAs). This includes clinical duties on the Emergency Floor and participation in the overnight general medical on – call rota (1:14). Weekend clinical commitments are also on the Emergency Floor on a 1:8 rota, working alongside another General Medical Consultant and a Frailty Consultant.

Rostering is managed through an annualised system using Health Rota, providing flexibility across the seven – day working week, including opportunities for mutually agreed time – shifting within the consultant team

• Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on range of emergency medical problems
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
• Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining CCT
• Training in and wide experience of general (internal) medicine and management of acute unselected take
• Must be independent in practical procedures required of the acute medical take
• Experience in working in Acute Medical Unit
• Experience in specialist areas pertinent to this post – in particular the management of the frail older person

• Breadth of experience in and outside specialty
• Appropriate level of clinical knowledge / up to date

• Experience and ability to work in multi‑professional teams
• Evidence of managerial skills:
  Achievements / Course attended