Acute Medicine SMART Locum Consultant

Job Title: Acute Medicine SMART Locum Consultant

Division: Operations

Acute Medicine SMART Locum Consultant who shares our ambition and vision to deliver Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

About us

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

The NHS are striving towards "we work flexibly" as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under represented groups to support the Trust's commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Job responsibilities

Medway NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Consultant to join the innovative SMART Virtual Ward one of the UK's largest virtual inpatient services, supporting up to 260 patients across Medway and Swale. This role is central to improving patient flow, reducing avoidable admissions, and delivering high quality acute medical care to patients safely at home through remote monitoring, virtual consultations, and close multidisciplinary collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

• Senior clinical decision making for Virtual Ward admissions.
• Daily virtual ward rounds and remote patient assessments.
• Medication prescribing, anticipatory care, and escalation planning.
• Participation in MDTs including Virtual Ward and OPAT meetings.
• Supporting governance, audits, service development, and SOP improvements.
• Providing leadership and expert advice to multidisciplinary teams.

What We're Looking For

• GMC registered Consultant with at least 3 years experience in Acute or Internal General Medicine.
• Safe, autonomous clinician with strong communication skills.
• Collaborative team player who is passionate about developing virtual ward models and innovative care pathways.

Role Details

• 4 PA Consultant post
• Full appraisal and revalidation support provided

Join us in shaping the future of acute care delivering hospital-level treatment at home and strengthening integrated care across Medway and Swale.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Full GMC registration (Essential)

Knowledge

• Clinical Governance principles
• Demonstrates the underpinning subject specific competencies relevant to the role setting and scope.
• Knowledge of legal responsibilities relevant to the role, such as mental capacity and deprivation of liberty
• Knowledge of their leadership responsibilities as a clinician.

Experience

• General training in Acute / General Medicine to specialist level or equivalent
• Experience of implementing quality improvement methods and repeats quality improvement cycles to refine practice
• Clinically evaluates and manages a patient, formulating a priorities differential diagnosis, initiating an appropriate management plan
• Experience of teaching doctors in training and undergraduates
• Experience of clinical audit
• Demonstrates key generic clinical skills around the areas of consent; ensuring humane interventions, prescribing medicines safely and using medical devices safely.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

£109,725 to £145,478 a year, pro rata