Consultant in Acute Medicine

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Consultant in Acute Medicine

The closing date is 08 October 2025

We are inviting applicants to join an expanding team of Acute Medicine Consultants who are interested in progressing our journey of service development and innovative working within Acute Medicine.

Acute Medicine works closely with the Emergency Medicine team and all Medical Specialities, and you will be involved in the development of clinical processes to improve patient outcomes and experience.

The successful applicant, along with the other Acute Medicine Consultants, will be responsible for the care of patients on our Acute Medicine Unit and Acute Medicine Assessment Centre (Assessment and SDEC/Ambulatory care). You will be supported by a full multi-disciplinary team, which includes a junior medical team and Advanced Nurse Practitioners.

The Trust has a strong Medical Education department, and the post holder would have a significant educational role, particularly in educational supervision of our IMT doctors and students.

Applicants should be able to demonstrate extensive experience in Acute Medicine and we would entertain applicants seeking to work in Acute Medicine and another specialty.

Applications are welcome from those who wish to work flexibly or on a less than full time basis.

Main duties of the job

• Leading ward rounds on the AMU, supporting junior doctors and the multidisciplinary team.
• Post taking patients within ED and SDEC.
• Supervision of patients returning to SDEC (ambulatory clinic).
• Acute Medicine outpatients.
• Educational and clinical supervision of junior doctors.
• Attendance and input into departmental and medical meetings

About us

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.
• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 5916 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 411,000. This includes 361,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

Job responsibilities

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs will be deducted from their salary over the first three months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application.

Person Specification Qualifications

• CCT in Acute Medicine or General Medicine (or expected within 6 months of interview) or alternative route to specialist register (e.g. CESR)
• MRCP (or equivalent)
• Active ALS
• An appropriate higher degree (eg an MD, PhD or equivalent)

Registration

• Registered with the GMC with a licence to Practice
• On the GMC specialist register or within 6 months at the time of interview

Experience

• Experience of working in acute medicine
• Evidence of teaching
• Relevant experience in undertaking and organisation of an audit or quality improvement project
• Registrar level experience in Cardiology, Respiratory, Care of the Elderly and Intensive Care Medicine
• Experience of ambulatory emergency care

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.

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust