Locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Main area: Emergency Medicine

Grade: Locum Consultant

Contract: Locum - 12 months (Fixed term - maternity cover)

Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week (On calls will be part of this role)

Site: Royal Derby Hospital, Town: Derby

Salary: £113,565 - £150,569 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 06/11/2026 23:59

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

With over 14,000 members of staff, you can expect huge variety and new opportunities every day! Our staff go above and beyond and take pride in caring for our patients.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust are fully committed to promoting inclusion, equality, diversity and human rights in employment and delivery of its services. The Trust is committed to providing an environment where all employees, patients, carers and visitors experience equality of opportunity by means of understanding and appreciating the value of diversity.

As a Trust we promote an inclusive environment and welcome applications from a diverse pool of talent and backgrounds. All individuals are valued and given every opportunity to succeed based on merit.

The Trust actively encourages applications from members of our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. These groups are under-represented in our organisation, and it’s important to us that our workforce reflects the diversity of our communities as much as possible.

Armed Forces and Disability Confident guaranteed interview scheme: To further support the pledges in the Armed Forces Covenant and to make a positive contribution to support ex-armed forces personnel (veterans) make the transition to civilian life, the Trust has introduced a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for veterans who meet the essential criteria set out in the person specification, to help them overcome barriers to find civilian employment. The scheme will operate for all external recruitment.

The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer and committed to both employing and retaining people with disabilities. This commitment is to guarantee an interview for any candidate that has disclosed a disability under the Equality Act 2010 and who meets the essential criteria set out in the person specification. Reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 will be considered upon request.

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The Trust is proud to be a signatory of the Care Leavers Covenant and is committed to supporting care-experienced people into employment. Applicants who identify as a care leaver and who meet the essential criteria for the role, as detailed in the person specification, will be guaranteed an interview. If you wish to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this within your application.

Join us and help make a real difference to our Trust.

Here’s more about the role and what we’re looking for:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a locum Consultant in Emergency Medicine to join our friendly, enthusiastic Emergency Department team at University Hospitals Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust (UHDB), based at the Royal Derby Hospital site. This is a 12 month fixed term opportunity to cover maternity leave, until December 2027.

The RDH Emergency Department currently operates over three areas – Resus and Majors Adult ED, Ambulatory Adult ED and a Urgent Treatment Centre to provide excellent care for the patients in our community.

Main duties of the job:

• Responsible for the care & treatment of patients in your charge & personal performance of clinical duties as agreed in your job plan, allowing for all proper delegation to, & training of your staff.
• Responsible for maintaining awareness of professional guidelines & acting in accordance with them.
• Responsible for the professional supervision, training & management of junior medical staff, carrying out teaching, examination & accreditation duties as required & contributing to postgraduate & continuing medical education activity locally, regionally & nationally as appropriate.
• Provision of an out of hours’ service with your Consultant colleagues including on-call rota commitments, as indicated in the enclosed job plan.

Working for our organisation: As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development.
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes.

Key Facts about our Trust:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• Maintenance of the highest clinical standard in the management of patients presenting to the emergency department.
• To work with the ED paediatric lead consultant and other colleagues to provide quality care and cover for paediatric patients in the children's ED.
• To share with colleagues responsibility for the day to day management of the ED as well as service development and speciality interfacing.

Person specification:

Qualifications:

• FRCEM or equivalent.
• Full GMC Registration with a license to practice.
• ATLS/ETC & ALS certification.
• APLS or PALS certification.
• MIMMS/HMIMMS Instructor status.
• Further higher qualification relevant to the specialty.
• Subspecialty qualification in Acute Medicine.
• Evidence of entry on GMC Specialist Register; OR Have CCT or be within 6 months of attaining CCT at time of interview AND entry on GMC Specialist Register by date of commencement; OR Evidence that the GMC is processing the Specialist Registration application (MUST be provided prior to interview).

Clinical Experience:

• Broad range of relevant experience in Emergency Medicine.
• Evidence of independent clinical practice.
• Evidence of ability to lead and work within multidisciplinary team.
• Experienced in making clinical decisions and managing risk.
• Subspecialty interest/experience or additional Emergency Medicine expertise.
• 1 year NHS experience.

Management Experience:

• Experience of formal presentations.
• Management training on an accredited course.

Teaching Experience:

• Evidence and experience of supervising and teaching resident doctors and medical students.
• Evidence of ability to and experience of teaching clinical skills.
• Formal training in educational methodology.

Audit & Research Experience:

• Experience of audit in practice.
• Experience of and commitment to clinical audit and/or Quality Improvement Projects (QIP).
• Evidence and ability to assess and apply evidence-based research into everyday clinical practice.
• Evidence of relevant academic and research achievements relevant to the specialty.
• Evidence of ability to supervise audit.
• Formal training in educational methodology.
• Evidence of recent research & development activity relevant to specialty, publications or service development work.
• Publications in nationally & internationally recognised peer-reviewed journals on subjects relevant to the specialty.
• Evidence of ability to supervise research.

Other Attributes:

• Evidence or feedback demonstrating positive attitudinal attributes.
• Experience of leadership/ evidence of leadership potential.

Our Trust aims to provide the highest quality care to patients within Derbyshire and South East Staffordshire and we want the very best people to work with us.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: If we receive a high number of applications for this position, we reserve the right to withdraw the post before the closing date, therefore it is advisable that you apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

At UHDB, we offer different ways to work flexibly to each and every one of our colleagues, many of whom already work flexibly at all sites of the Trust.

For our roles we are open to discussing the possibility of part-time/ reduced hours/ compressed hours/ flexible start and finish times/ fixed/flexible shifts/annualised hours/ term time hours/ hybrid working – working partly in the trust/partly at home.

Most of our posts are subject to a DBS check, however having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you from obtaining a position. Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

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