Consultant Acute Physician – Peterborough

Overview

As a Consultant Acute Physician, you join a forward-thinking NHS team delivering acute medical care across Medical Assessment, Short Stay and Ambulatory Care Units. You will work across Peterborough City Hospital with cross-site duties, contributing to a multidisciplinary, safety-focused environment. You’ll balance high-quality patient care with teaching, governance and service development in a ground-breaking care pathway landscape.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible and Less than Full Time working
• opportunity to work additional shifts via Trust bank
• competitive salary with uplift potential
• central role in a supportive leadership community
• cross-site work experience
• teaching and professional development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality, safe, compassionate care to acutely ill patients
• Teach, train and supervise doctors, nurses and students
• Lead and participate in clinical governance activities (audits, mortality review, appraisals)
• Develop and implement evidence-based guidelines and pathways
• Contribute to educational supervision and trainee support
• Engage in cross-site, flexible scheduling including on-call duties
• Support and evolve Same Day Emergency Care pathways and rapid assessment workflows
• Participate in service planning and performance improvement initiatives
• Negotiate and adapt job plans to balance service demand and personal flexibility

Key requirements

• MBBS or equivalent; MRCP or General Medicine accreditation; Full GMC Registration
• Completed training in General or Acute Medicine
• Ability to provide expert clinical opinion across adult acute medicine
• Calm under pressure and able to organize workload
• Management experience or training; good IT skills; NHS structure awareness
• Effective written and verbal communication; fluent in English
• Teaching capability across grades of doctors and medical students
• Participation in clinical governance activities; willingness to engage in audits
• UK professional registration and ability to obtain sponsorship if needed

• Effective written and verbal communication
• Calm under pressure
• Team collaboration and collegiality
• Acute Internal Medicine expertise
• Clinical governance and audit processes
• Education supervision and medical teaching

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