Job summary
- Main area
- General Medicine
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- 23 months (Fixed Term Contrac)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (N/A)
- Job ref
- 275-2602-CONACUTSMART-HG
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway Hospital
- Town
- Gillingham Kent
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Acute Medicine SMART Locum Consultant
Consultant
Job overview
Job Title: Acute Medicine SMART Locum Consultant
Division: Operations
Salary: £109,725 - £145,478 per annum/pro rata
We are recruiting for an Acute Medicine SMART Locum Consultant who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the 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 to refer to our values w
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to 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.
Working for our organisation
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 Trusts 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.
Detailed job description and main 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
Essential criteria
- Full GMC registration (Essential)
- MRCP OR equivalent overseas qualification (Essential)
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Clinical Governance principles
- Demonstates 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
Essential criteria
- 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 managed 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 intervensions, prescribing medicines safetly and using medical devices safely.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Denis Taiwo
- Job title
- Acute Medicine Physician
- Email address
- [email protected]
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