This consultant post sits in the emergency department of the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, a designated trauma unit. The work centres on front-line care, seeing patients personally, clinical leadership and supervising junior staff, with a share of departmental management and on-call. It stands out for input into a new Emergency Centre and for a service covering Shropshire and Mid Wales, on a 10 PA contract. Candidates need entry on the GMC Specialist Register, via CCT or CESR.
What the job involves
- Provide first-class emergency medicine care within a multi-professional team, seeing patients personally
- Give clinical leadership and supervise and teach junior medical and nursing staff
- Take on a share of departmental management and administration
- Take part in planning and developing the emergency medicine service
- Contribute expertise to the design of a new Emergency Centre
- Develop service treatment protocols and guidelines
- Take part in the out-of-hours on-call rota on an equal basis with consultant colleagues
- Develop clinical skills, especially in assessing and managing acutely ill patients
- Deliver agreed national and local clinical and quality targets with clinical teams and commissioners
- Follow patients through their clinical pathways
- Work to an annual job plan of 7.5 PAs direct clinical care and 2.5 SPAs for CPD, audit, teaching and research on a full-time basis
What’s required
Qualifications
- MBBS, MBChB or equivalent medical qualification
- FRCEM or equivalent
- ALS or equivalent certification
- ATLS or equivalent certification
- APLS certification
- Level 3 Safeguarding Children training within the last 3 years
Registration & licences
- Full GMC registration and licence to practise
- Entry on the GMC Specialist Register via CCT (proposed date within 6 months of interview) or CESR
Experience
- Broad clinical experience within emergency medicine
Skills & knowledge
- Ability to teach clinical skills and lecture on the specialty
- Recognised ability to work within and lead a multidisciplinary team
- Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other agencies
- Commitment to clinical risk and understanding of clinical governance
Nice to have
- Higher degree (MD/PhD)
- Additional teaching qualification
- Additional leadership qualification
- Ability to supervise, appraise, coach and mentor trainee and other doctors
- Experience in clinical undergraduate or postgraduate teaching
- Experience in NHS management
What’s offered
- Additional PAs available with agreement, renewable yearly
- Support to develop specialist interests within emergency medicine
- Annual job plan review with personal objectives linked to service priorities
- Consideration of part-time working for personal reasons, with job content adjusted by discussion
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
