Consultant in Acute Internal Medicine

To share in the organisation and provision of high-quality clinical care for acute medical patients within the Trust.

9. To assess and review patients within the setting of the Acute Medical Unit and SDEC, including performing appropriate clinical procedures in this setting.

10. To facilitate the early discharge of acute medical patients, including where necessary, by early review in the Acute Medical Unit/SDEC review clinics, where clinically appropriate.

11. To provide senior support and input into clinical decisions taken by junior medical staff within the Acute Medical Unit / SDEC.

12. To ensure the provision of accurate and timely communication between the Acute Medical Unit/ SDEC, other units within the Trust (including critical care), and in primary or intermediate care settings.

13. To work to provide smooth, timely and appropriate transfer of patients to appropriate specialty beds within the Trust.

14. To participate in the development and implementation of care pathways for common medical emergency presentations.

15. To participate in the out-of-hours medical on-call rota at weekends (the intensity is site dependent), such on-call including assuming clinical responsibility for the care of all medical patients within the Trust (including those outside of the Acute Medical Unit).

16. If requested and agreed with the Deputy Divisional Medical Directors for Medicine, to contribute to a sub-speciality service in the form of clinics, procedural lists and specialist ward referrals.