Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine in Cheltenham

Applicants are invited to apply for a Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine post. The post will be Emergency Medicine clinical care allowing an opportunity for doctors wanting to gain experience and responsibility in not just managing patients but managing a busy department (at Registrar level).

As a Trust, we place high importance on staff wellbeing, you will be offered a wide variety of support to help you maintain your wellbeing and to help colleagues maintain theirs. The Trust's Health and Wellbeing team has won a National Award during 2020 for the work they have done locally.

The Trust's overriding vision is to provide the highest quality services to our local population and so to be the hospital of choice. This vision is linked to key goals:

• Improve satisfaction and confidence in our services.
• Continue to be the local healthcare provider of choice.
• To provide clinically appropriate and safe outreach services in the community which meet commissioners and patients.
• To maximise the value of being a Foundation Trust by ensuring our services are embedded in and valued by our community.

Main duties of the job:

• Take a history and examine a patient.
• Identify and synthesize problems.
• Prescribe safely.
• Keep an accurate and relevant medical record (electronic notes).
• Manage time and clinical priorities effectively.
• Communicate effectively with patients, relatives and colleagues.
• Use evidence, guidelines and audit to benefit patient care.

We are a busy DGH Emergency Department that sees a wide variety of presentations (in both adult and paediatric). We deal with medical, surgical, orthopaedic, paediatric and trauma patients. These patients can present and be assessed in resus, majors, minors or paediatric ED. 40% of the time will be spent undertaking departmental innovation/quality improvement projects. The ideal candidate will be a doctor who wishes to take time to do more leadership, education and innovation. You may wish to discover your leadership, management and influencing skills. You may have a passion to enhance your medico-associated skills such as development of new pathways, finding solutions to problems or systems design. You will be dynamic, self-driven and able to manage your time.

Person Specification:

Qualifications

• Essential: Fully registered with the GMC with licence to practice, ALS provider status, MRCEM or equivalent.
• Desirable: ATLS/ETC provider status, APLS/EPALS provider status.

Clinical Experience

• Essential: Some experience within a specialty relevant to the role, EM experience, expertise in full range of medical conditions, ability to help lead and supervise a multi-professional team and take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients.
• Desirable: Some experience at Middle Grade level in EM.

Teaching and Research

• Essential: Interest in leading multi-professional education, ability to supervise post-graduate projects.
• Desirable: Publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Management Administration

• Essential: Ability to manage priorities, project management skills, leadership skills, experience of audit/QI and management, flexible approach and ability to lead project teams, intermediate level IT skills.
• Desirable: Advanced level IT skills.

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.