Consultant Acute Medicine

  • Job Reference: DOOLEY140 (LIAM)
  • Date Posted: 12 October 2023
  • Recruiter: A&E Agency
  • Location: Manchester
  • Salary: On Application
  • Sector: Medicine, Medicine > Acute
  • Job Type: Temporary
  • Work Hours: Full Time
  • Contact: Emma Dooley
  • Email: EmmaDooley@accident-emergency.co.uk
  • Telephone: 0161 245 4470

Job Description

As an acute medicine consultant, you will be at the forefront of patient care, working closely with emergency department staff and other healthcare professionals to diagnose and treat a wide range of acute medical conditions.

If you are a consultant physician in acute medicine and interested in a long-term locum opportunity based in Manchester, this 6-month job might be what you’re looking for.

What you’ll be doing

You will be working in a long-term locum contract at an acute medicine department based at an NHS trust in Manchester. The Acute Medical Unit (AMU) is a 49 bedded unit that manages acutely unwell medical patients who cannot otherwise be managed through Same Day Emergency Care.

You will be working as a locum consultant in acute medicine and covering an average of 10 PAs per week. You should be forward thinking, proactive and able to work well with the emergency department, general medical specialties, primary care, diagnostics, and critical care teams. The team has forged close links with the department to be able to provide the best possible care to patients.

Where you’ll be doing it

This NHS trust in Greater Manchester is an organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. To continually improve all aspects of their patient experience, they rely upon employing a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive, and patient focused workforce.

This area in Greater Manchester is constantly evolving and currently reaping the rewards of years of development and funding. There are restaurants, bars and social activities popping up regularly in this neighbourhood on the cusp of gentrification.

I’m a Consultant in Acute Medicine and I want to learn more about this locum job, what can I do?

If you are a consultant in acute medicine, please apply to this vacancy using the button in this job advert. This is an informal application where a member of the team will call you to discuss your availability, requirements and answer any questions you might have.

If you know a consultant acute medicine physician who would be suitable for this role, please refer them via our lucrative referral scheme.

If you are looking for a locum job role and can’t see anything suitable, please get in touch to speak to the team. We receive hundreds of jobs daily so your perfect job may not be advertised on our website.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.