Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

General Medicine is rapidly expanding at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, as the benefit to the patient of having their care guided by a Consultant with an understanding of a multisystem approach is being rediscovered on a national scale. We are seeking an enthusiastic, forward-thinking Consultant with a passionate interest in contributing to the development of all the facets of what GIM can offer patient care, to join our current consultant team. Due to the size of our catchment area you will be involved in the management of an incredibly wide range of pathologies, developing your skills and providing ample opportunity for service improvement, clinical teaching and research.

Recruitment to these posts will support the ongoing development of General Internal Medicine in Portsmouth including further developing integrated short stay pathways alongside our large Acute Medicine Unit, improving seven-day services and increasing our involvement in research.

In addition to patient care, training is an important part of life within the GIM department. We are lucky to have a large number of trainees from a range of training programmes for whom we provide clinical and educational supervision, assessments and regular teaching sessions. We are also developing our alternative medical workforce with the introduction of Medical Technicians and Advanced Clinical Practitioners. 

We are pleased to say we have great teaching opportunity at the post graduate and under graduate level. PHU is at the forefront of PACES teaching in the south. PHU has been hosting PACES UK exam three times a year. There is an opportunity to become PACES examiner. General Internal Medicine team will be very much engaged in teaching of King’s College London/Portsmouth University Graduate Medical Student from this year. There will be a great opportunity for the teaching there.

For those with a dual CCT or speciality interests, sessions are negotiable dependant on qualifications. Current consultants within General Medicine maintain sessions in our subspecialty Renal and Endocrine departments. In addition to the aforementioned, within the Trust we have sizable gastroenterology, cardiology and respiratory departments should your specialty qualifications pertain to these. Should a candidate with a single CCT in General Internal or Acute Medicine desire to develop a specialty interest, annualised contracts are available to provide the scope for this, and many of our specialty colleagues have expressed an interest to aid in your development.

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust is one of the largest acute hospital trusts in the country. We provide a full range of services to more than 675,000 people across Portsmouth, South East Hampshire and West Sussex. Most services are provided at Queen Alexandra Hospital but we also offer a range of outpatient and diagnostic facilities closer to patients’ homes. We handle around 142,000 Emergency Department admissions a year and have the busiest maternity department on the South Coast. The Trust employs around 6,480 staff and is the largest employer in Portsmouth.

The Trust’s vision is to be the best hospital, provide the best care by employing the best people and to ensure our patients are the centre of all that we do. If you share the same values as Portsmouth Hospitals; Respect & Dignity, Quality of Care, Working Together and Efficiency we want you to work for us.

What can we offer you?

• You will join a department of 6 consultants and 23 junior doctors tending to an incredibly varied workload.
• We will support your professional development via internal courses including Trust Leadership and Management programmes.
• We will provide an opportunity to negotiate sessions in a wide number of specialties if required.
• Staff benefits which include onsite flexible childcare, childcare vouchers, onsite gym.

Job Summary

• Sharing in providing the inpatient general medicine service across the trust
• Supervision of trainees, providing advice and reviewing treatment plans
• Participation in education programmes for trainees, medical students, physiotherapists, nursing staff and other specialist staff
• Participation in the clinical governance activities of the department
• Being an active member of the general medicine team, encouraging multi professional working
• Management of the trainees in the firm, providing appraisal and necessary feedback
• Contribution to the overall management of the general medicine service, undertaking projects and programmes of work as delegated by the Clinical Director.

Please refer to the full job documents below

Job Description

Job Plan

Additional Department Information

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
• Higher professional training in General Internal Medicine is essential
• Hold the MRCP(UK) or equivalent
• Higher professional training in a subspecialty is desirable

Clinical Skills & Experience

• Entry on the GMC specialist register for General (Internal) Medicine with or without another specialty  via CCT (proposed date must be within 6 months), CESR or European Community Rights
• Demonstrable skills set expected of a specialist physician
• Understanding of clinical risk management

Knowledge

• Able to demonstrate appropriate level of clinical knowledge
• Knowledge and use of evidence based practice
• IT skills
• Effective, confident presentation ability
• Experience in and outside speciality

Other

• Evidence of participation in audit
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Publications
• Prizes and honours
• Logical thinking, problem solving and decision making

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.